Opposition candidate for Moscow’s mayor, Alexei Navalny, was arrested over the weekend while speaking to voters. Even before this, however, he was under investigation for using “illegal campaign materials.” The house of one of his supporters was raided, and Navalny has been issued a verbal warning, but Navalny’s camp claims that, so far, no public […]
The opposition’s candidate for Moscow’s mayor is surging in the polls, despite a recent conviction for fraud. Though he is still a long shot to win Moscow’s mayoral race, he is polling higher now that the debates have started, especially since Moscow’s incumbent, Sergei Sobyanin, has refused to take place in the debates. Navalny was […]
Russia has levied sanctions against Ukraine, backing up hundreds of freight trucks at the border, all in protest of Ukraine’s decision to enter the European Union instead of the Moscow-centric Customs Union. The move may cost Ukraine $2.5 billion this year alone. Now, there are signs that Russia could turn its already infamous anti-immigration policies […]
The Central Election Commission (CEC) published data on financial flows to the accounts of political parties for the second quarter of 2013. It turned out that the largest party in the country [United Russia – Ed.] is rapidly losing sponsors. Now it takes only the fifth place in the list in terms of monetary contributions […]
The Ministry of Finance and independent experts figured out how to save the budget money. Over three years the measures they proposed will save more than 1.1 trillion roubles. The government expenditure optimization project has already been submitted to the government, the Ministry of Finance press service told “RG.” The authors of these proposals plan […]
One of Russia’s banks took a loan from Bank of Russia in order to stay afloat. However, that bank also owed creditors billions of rubles. An appeals court has pronounced that the bank rightfully transferred money to the Central Bank before its other creditors. This decision, however, means that now that the bank is bankrupt, […]
The Ministry of Defense has developed a new package of rules and regulations governing privatization of military assets. The purpose of the reform is to de-commercialize the Ministry’s operations and effectively divest all its unnecessary assets through tenders, organized by independent vendors. Already in 2014 the Ministry of Defense expects to sell 30 items of […]
Alexei Navalny has accused the acting mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, of failing to have an important document, a signature from the President which would allow Sobyanin to run for mayor despite the fact that Sobyanin resigned the post. Meanwhile, new allegations are being thrown at Navalny that his campaign received illegal funding. Navalny has […]
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has accused the United Russia party of accepting foreign funds into its campaign chest, funds that could conceivably be put into use during Moscow’s mayoral race. However, election officials deny that United Russia has done anything wrong. These allegations come just after the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia […]
Last week, the apartment of a group of Navalny supporters was raided by Moscow police who were accompanied by Nikolai Levichev, the Duma deputy and Just Russia candidate for mayor. Levichev, whose own campaign materials have been found to contain racist and anti-Semitic content, accused Navalny’s team of compiling illegal campaign literature. The storming of […]
