A rare public clash between two leading figures in Russia’s state-dominated oil industry hints at a split in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and could be intended to rein in one of his closest advisers.
The European Union criticized Russia’s human rights record on Sunday, saying it was increasingly concerned at a wave of restrictive legislation and prosecutions against activists.
The widow of Alexander Litvinenko has launched a blistering attack onWilliam Hague and David Cameron, accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband’s murder and hiding the Russian state’s role in his death.
Within the first two minutes of Alexander Lebedev walking into the bar of the five-star Connaught hotel in Mayfair, London, he has discussed – in an intense, amused, leaning-forward monotone – an 11th-century “special prison for rich Russians” he has restored, and a friend who wants to stay there (“I said, “OK – commit something”); his son […]
The father of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been summoned to appear before federal investigators.
A new figure has appeared in the scandalous criminal case of the gang of crooks who stole 150 apartments from the Defense Ministry. Stanislav Balyukin, an official in the Defense Ministry, was detained in Moscow. He is considered to be one of the key participants in a fraud case which cost the state damages of […]
The editors of the Amur.info news agency have received a report from concerned Amur resident Gennady Uvarov, who sent links to a video in which children were being brutally beaten. He indicated that this was taking place at an orphanage in the village of Pionersky in the Mazanov district. According to Uvarov, he received the […]
A bribery scandal at French lender Societe Generale’s Russian entity Rosbank shows that stricter measures should be implemented by both Western and Russian companies to enforce compliance with their codes of conduct, experts said.
Senior Russian and American officials said on Wednesday that they were prepared to put a bizarre spy case behind them, even as the episode remained a matter of intense fascination to the Russian news media and the public.
Russia’s government is split over charging the central bank to support the economy as part of efforts to revive growth, leaving President Vladimir Putin to decide, according to an official familiar with the proposals.
