Moscow is set to lend Budapest €10bn ($13.7bn) to finance two Russian-built reactors at Hungary’s only nuclear power plant, in the latest in a series of Russian moves to use its energy and financial clout to restore influence in eastern Europe.
Russia will have to remake its labor practices for the country’s economy to pull out of its current doldrums.
Dmitry Altaichinov, a participant in a May 2012 protest rally in central Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, was pardoned on Thursday pursuant to a broad amnesty spearheaded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Russia is set to continue talks with Iran on a possible oil-for-goods swap that would make Moscow a major importer of Iranian oil despite concerns by the United States, the Kommersant business daily said Thursday, citing a Russian diplomatic source.
Three members of the Russian security forces and four gunmen were killed in a shootout on Wednesday during a sweep for Islamist militants who have threatened to attack the Winter Olympics that begin in Sochi next month.
About 1,000 businesspeople could be released this year under an economic amnesty that had initially ended earlier this month, business ombudsmen Boris Titov said Tuesday.
Facebook has agreed a deal to share public data from its users with Yandex – Russia’s largest search engine.
Russia is set to severely limit online payment systems and oblige websites including the likes of Google and Facebook to store information on users and share it with security services
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday postponed the Anna Politkovskaya murder case hearing until January 20, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
A Moscow court ruled Wednesday that seizing assets from opposition activist Alexei Navalny as part of an ongoing embezzlement case against him was legal, denying the politician’s appeal to have his money returned.
