At Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Monday, Edward Snowden slipped through the net of the world’s media like the invisible man, with the fugitive whistleblower a no-show for the flight he was expected to take to Havana, Cuba.
The trial of 12 participants in last year’s violent protest on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square has started in the Russian capital.
US politicians have attacked Vladimir Putin and called for Russia to hand over Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who admitted leaking top secret spying documents.
Moscow on Monday strongly condemned the decision by Western and Arab nations in the Friends of Syria group to supply weapons to the rebel forces fighting the Bashar Assad regime in Syria.
President Vladimir Putin pledged on Friday that Russia would invest at least $43 billion to upgrade the country’s roads and railways to help spur growth and leave a lasting legacy for generations.
Private security guards and riot police have evicted For Human Rights, a human rights group, from their Moscow government-owned office, stirring new fears about a crackdown on nongovernmental organizations.
Thousands of jailed businessmen are expected to be freed this summer as part of the amnesty plan approved by President Vladimir Putin and set for review by the State Duma by mid-July.
Two members of punk collective on world tour to raise awareness for plight of colleagues jailed in remote prison camps
State Duma deputies passed a bill on Friday barring same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children, heeding strong signals of support from President Vladimir Putin and broadening a rift with Western nations over gay rights.
Fictitious import contracts with entities from Customs Union member states Belarus and Kazakhstan may have accounted for 40 percent of Russia’s net capital outflow last year, business daily Vedomosti reported Thursday, citing Central Bank data.
