Snowden has said the time isn’t right for him to return to the United States, where he could face criminal charges for leaking classified information. Russia gave him asylum for a year.
A former lawmaker in the legislative assembly of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan is suspected of leading a criminal syndicate involved in large-scale fraud and extortion, investigators said Friday.
The ex-husband and business partner of Janna Bullock, the socialite property developer being sued for millions of dollars over alleged frauds including one involving a luxurious mansion in London’s Belgravia, has been ordered by a French court to be extradited to face criminal charges in Russia.
The director general of Russia’s Severnaya Verf shipyard is suspected of embezzling 38 million rubles ($1.1 million) in budgetary funds, investigators said Friday.
A BBC photo of a men’s cubicle with twin toilets at a Sochi Olympics venue has caused a Twitter storm in Russia.
The coroner investigating the murder of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said there was a prima facie case that the Russian state was involved, it has emerged.
Russian authorities cracked down on civil society and minorities in 2013, the Human Rights Watch rights group said in an annual report released Tuesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday to call on European Union (EU) countries to refrain from getting directly involved in a standoff between pro-European protesters and the government of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Environmental activists in Russia’s Far East said Tuesday that construction linked to offshore oil production had been delayed over concerns it could harm local populations of endangered gray whales.
Russian security forces are searching Sochi for a suspected terrorist who is feared to be planning to target the Olympic Games, according to a notice distributed throughout the city.
