Russia’s most powerful law enforcement organization, the Investigative Committee, has opened a criminal case against the bass guitarist of the American rock group Bloodhound Gang for “inciting hatred” during a show.
The head of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics has requested assistance from the International Olympics Committee to stop the “campaign” against Russia’s anti-gay law that has sparked backlash since the legislation was signed into law in July.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem strengthened Tuesday his nation’s backing for a Russian proposal to see his nation turn its chemical weapons stockpiles over to international control to avoid a U.S. military strike, even as his Russian allies worked to hammer out the details of the proposal.
A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a man charged with plotting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin to 10 years in a maximum security penal colony, a correspondent for the RAPSI legal news agency reported.
Amirov is suspected of involvement in plotting a terrorist attack with former aide to the Khasavyurt prosecutor, Magamed Abdulgalimov, and Vice Mayor of Kaspiisk Yusup Dzhaparov, said Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin.
Russia has offered Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
A member of Russian president Vladimir Putin‘s ruling party tabled a draft law on Thursday to take children away from homosexual parents, adding to a series of measures that activists say are undermining gay rights.
President Barack Obama is set to meet with leaders of several Russian social activist groups Friday, an event likely to touch on the sensitive subject of gay rights in the nation amid tensions over Syria.
Things aren’t exactly warming up between the Obama administration and Vladimir Putin, even as President Obama arrived in St. Petersburg for the G-20 summit.
The improbable campaign of Aleksei A. Navalny, the corruption-fighting activist, has exposed disarray in the political system Mr. Putin has constructed.
