The investigators can now move for detaining opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has allegedly violated the terms of his restriction notice in the Ives Rocher case, the Investigative Committee told RIA Novosti on Monday.
A subsidiary of the Russian oil giant LUKoil has been slapped with a fine of 614 million rubles ($18.5 million), which Greenpeace said appeared to be the biggest such fine in Russia’s history.
Iran and Russia are negotiating an oil-for-goods swap worth $1.5 billion a month that would let Iran lift oil exports substantially, in defiance of Western sanctions that helped force Tehran to agree a preliminary deal to end its nuclear programme.
A Moscow artist was released on parole Friday after spending more than two years in jail for a bribery conviction that followed his move to a Russian village in a bid to bring culture to the provinces.
Russia’s Orthodox Church has proposed a referendum on banning gay relationships, despite Western pressure over human rights ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Ukraine has granted a request filed by Russia to freeze late oligarch Boris Berezovsky’s assets in the country, Rossiskaya Gazeta reported Thursday.
THE EUROPEAN COURT of Human Rights has ruled that Russia should pay the families of 36 men ‘disappeared’ by authorities during the ten year conflict in Chechnya just under two million euro in damages.
A former official at Azerbaijan’s defense ministry on an Interpol wanted list for embezzlement was detained at a Moscow airport Friday as he tried to flee the country, the Russian Interior Ministry said.
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office has declared 79 citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine suspects in the criminal case connected with the events which happened in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, prosecutor Simonas Slapsinskas told journalists on Friday.
Russian officials, who are banned from accepting expensive presents as part of the country’s anti-corruption drive, will now have a chance to buy them out under a new government regulation.
