Nearly half of Russian students (45 percent) and some 38 percent of businessmen would like to leave Russia, according to a survey by the Levada Center independent pollster published on Thursday.
A coroner has written to the government to request a public inquiry in place of an inquest into the death of the poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko, it has emerged.
Russian and European Union officials meeting at a summit Tuesday discussed liberalizing visa rules for many Russians, an issue that brought objections from politicians concerned about human rights abuses.
In an expected move on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Russia accused unnamed states on Wednesday of using a “biased” U.N. human rights report on Syria to condemn President Bashar al-Assad’s government and gloss over abuses by his foes, especially Islamist militants.
Radical opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov will fight to become Moscow’s next mayor, despite being under house arrest in connection with accusations of having plotted mass unrest
RPR-PARNAS co-chairman Boris Nemtsov said the Coordinating Council of the Opposition /KSO/should name a single candidate in case Moscow has an early mayoral election.
A commando raid to detain the man who ran Russia’s most violent big city is one of the boldest gambles in years by President Vladimir Putin to assert control over Dagestan, a region spiraling into organized crime and Islamist insurgency.
Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, announced Tuesday he is stepping down two years early to stand for a new term in office.
President Vladimir Putin voiced support on Tuesday for a planned ban on adoptions by foreign same-sex couples and dismissed Western criticism of Russia’s treatment of gay people.
