At times during their 12-minute joint appearance on Monday evening, Barack Obama and Vladimir V. Putin seemed locked in a frowning contest, their fingers laced tensely in their laps, eyes narrowed, lips pressed tightly together — especially when they noted their continuing disagreement about Syria.
The ex-head of a subsidiary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s now-defunct energy giant Yukos has been freed on parole by a Tomsk court, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday.
Russia signaled it would allow the ruble to weaken to help revive stalling economic growth as the Kremlin grasps for options to breathe life back into its oil-dependent economy during the sharpest slowdown the country has seen since 2009.
Antonio Spilimbergo, an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said that “ambitious economic policy reforms” are necessary to battle back against high inflation and slowing economic growth and realize the economy’s potential, after meeting with high ranking governmental officials in Moscow this week.
A Latvian bank has been hit with the stiffest fine possible for involvement in money laundering connected to the case of the whistle-blowing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Russian prosecutors have charged opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev with plotting mass riots during a demonstration in Moscow last May, his lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI on Wednesday.
Russian officials have opened a criminal investigation into a deputy head of state-controlled airline Aeroflot on suspicion that he abused his position by selling cheap tickets to travel agents linked to his family.
Russia will use its presidency of the G20 to push for a radical overhaul of the International Monetary Fund and changes to its voting system to give developing economies a stronger voice, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Russia and the United States have a signed a bilateral agreement for protecting, controlling, and accounting for nuclear materials, continuing important aspects of a now-defunct program that was seen as a cornerstone of post-Soviet cooperation between the former foes.
Prominent Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina has been fined for refusing to provide documents demanded by prosecutors.
