Dear Friends! I asked my colleagues to give the opportunity to speak, and for the first time in my life — I’ve never read from a paper — I wrote down my speech, because I want to say some things that are extremely important for our movement. First, I want to say the flower of […]
What we are witnessing is the date of “May 6” making history. The trial of the “May 6 prisoners”, and the “Navalny Case” mark another historical turn of events. To understand the meaning of this, let’s try to look ahead from the past. I remember all too well how the “sources in the presidential administration” […]
Alexander Lebedev was once the ultimate example of Russia‘s new rich: jetting around the world, holding court in London just as often as in Moscow, posting photos of himself on safari in the depths of Africa.
Russian media magnate Alexander Lebedev goes on trial on Tuesday in a case he portrays as President Vladimir Putin’s revenge for criticising the Kremlin and a warning to other rich businessmen.
Viktor Vekselberg, head of the Skolkovo Fund, announced that he has filed charges against Ilya Ponomarev in court. The Investigative Committee suspects Ponomarev of unlawful receipt of money from the Fund. The deputy himself learned of the lawsuit from journalists. “Truth his absolutely on my side. Skolkovo knows this full well. And Vekselberg knows this full well. […]
Today the personnel of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Federal Security Service (FSB), Federal Protective Service (FSO), and the Central Bank submitted their income statements. None of the officials declared any property registered abroad, and in terms of income the leader is the CB Chairman Sergei Ignatiev, who is stepping down this June. The SVR […]
An astronomical 1.136 trillion rubles ($36.4 billion) has already been spent on the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. In the 305 days remaining until the opening of the Games, another plus or minus 390 billion rubles will be spent. Mainly companies close to Vladimir Putin are appropriating these billions, claims Boris Nemtsov, one of the opposition […]
The efforts to morally discredit the opposition, set against the backdrop of new criminal cases against the leaders and rank-and-file participants of the protest movement, is a good way to finally bury the political landscape of Russia under concrete, or in a bog (in the literal sense, not to be confused with Bolotnaya Square. The […]
The little person in this case is Yan Kirillov, aged 3 years and 4 months. A year and a half ago, he stopped talking. Doctors confirm that reason for this pathology is the psychological trauma received as a result of his father’s arrest. On Monday in Khoroshevsky District Court in Moscow, the criminal case of […]
The Moscow City Court has sentenced well-known opposition activist Konstantin Lebedev to 2.5 years in prison for organizing public unrest in Moscow under the notorious “Bolotnaya Case”. Technically, this sentence cannot have any legal implications for the outcome of the upcoming major trial of Leonid Razvozzhaev and Sergei Udaltsov; however, their attorneys have expressed concerns […]
