According to data from the World Bank, Russia’s economy has jumped ahead of all the European nations, becoming the fifth largest worldwide in terms of GDP. Experts are confident that, in the future, the gap between the Russian Federation and the Old World will widen further.
Opposition politician and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has gotten all the press during the nearly four months of his trial. But he was not alone in the dock, as he took pains to point out during his closing remarks on July 5.
US-based Internet giant Google is suspected of tax evasion in Russia, a senator in Russia’s upper house of parliament said Thursday.
Alexey Navalny faces possible imprisonment tomorrow in the highest-profile case against a critic of President Vladimir Putin since the prosecution of former oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
A St. Petersburg court has ruled that the city’s branch of the nongovernmental organization Memorial does not have to register as a “foreign agent” in a decision that could impact upon other NGOs hit with the same charges.
President Vladimir Putin praised the Russian military’s performance Wednesday in an extensive snap check of combat readiness of unprecedented scale in Russia’s Far East this week.
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday again said the Cabinet was slacking off. He blamed ministers for getting behind schedule in executing measures to develop the country’s Far East.
Russia has blocked the creation of the world’s largest ocean reserves off the coast of Antarctica, in what campaigners called a “bad faith stalling tactic.”.
Russia’s Air Force has begun a large-scale exercise in the west of the country involving the “biggest-ever deployment of the service’s new Sukhoi Su-34 strike aircraft,” a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
Russia has every chance of securing a place in the Asian gas market even while competition there is on the rise, President Vladimir Putin said, underlining Moscow’s shift in energy policy towards Asia.
