Exiled economist Sergei Guriev turned down President Vladimir Putin’s invitation on Tuesday to return to Russia, saying he preferred freedom to the prospect of further harassment at the hands of federal investigators.
Vladimir Putin has defended Russian arms sales to the Syrian government but said Moscow had not yet delivered advanced S-300 air defence systems to Damascus.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin will ask President Vladimir Putin to declare early mayoral elections, the first in Moscow since 2003, in a move analysts said would help ensure Sobyanin’s election in September amid a worsening political climate for the mayor.
Russia plans to resume nuclear submarine patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of more than 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, in another example of efforts to revive Moscow’s military
The United States is not putting enough pressure on the Syrian opposition to participate in an international peace conference and drop its demand for President Bashar Assad’s exit, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday.
Russian economist Sergei Guriyev and other experts invited to prepare a conclusion on the Yukos case for the Presidential Human Rights Council did not do anything illegal, the council’s head Mikhail Fedotov told Interfax
Pussy Riot‘s Maria Alyokhina, jailed for an anti-Kremlin protest last autumn, has ended an 11-day hunger strike. Alyokhina’s representatives claimed she had provoked “unprecedented” concessions by Russian officials, who agreed to relax security procedures at the prison where the 25-year-old is being held.
Moscow’s City Court ordered the release from prison on Friday of a businessman whose freedom was among the demands of the recent opposition rallies in the Russian capital, RIA Novosti reports.
Russia began a second bid to convict the suspected killers of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya at a pre-trial hearing on Monday, but her family said the question of who ordered the murder was unlikely to emerge from the case.
Bloggers have published pictures of a luxury mansion, believed to be owned by Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian Railways and powerful member of President Vladimir Putin‘s inner circle.
