Izhmash arms factory, manufacturer of the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle, has won a 13 billion ruble ($390 million) Defense Ministry tender for antitank missiles, the company said Monday, in one of its “largest state orders in recent years.”
Britain said on Friday that relations with Russia had played a part in its refusal to hold a public inquiry into the murder in London of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko but denied this had been the main consideration.
Russian riot police and Interior Ministry troops have detained dozens of demonstrators after thousands of Muscovites took to the streets to protest the conviction and jailing earlier in the day of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
The Central Bank is trying to limit Russian banks depositing money with their foreign counterparts by reclassifying the transactions as high-risk, which would make them more expensive and less attractive, Kommersant reported Friday.
Russia’s most effective anti-corruption campaigner and opposition leader was found guilty of embezzlement Thursday and sentenced to five years in prison in a verdict that sent shock waves throughout the country.
The head of one of the world’s largest transport companies, state-owned Russian Railways, this week dismissed as unfounded corruption allegations made against him by opposition protest leader Alexei Navalny, Prime news agency reported.
The European Union voiced concern on Thursday at a five-year jail term handed down to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, saying the trial raised serious questions about rule of law in Russia.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft on Thursday, an unexpectedly tough punishment which supporters said proved President Vladimir Putin was a dictator ruling by repression.
Russia’s Investigative Committee called the presidential human rights council’s former head in for questioning this week, in what fellow activists link to an ongoing probe into experts who backed releasing jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian media reported Thursday.
A senior Central Bank official has declared ownership of six apartments in Mexico and a home in the United States, possibly leaving him open to criticism as President Vladimir Putin campaigns to curtail holdings of foreign assets.
