A Russia-led regional military alliance of former Soviet states will help Tajikistan strengthen its border with Afghanistan by the end of this year, the organization’s head said Tuesday.
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has joined a chorus of protest over Kremlin-backed plans to change rules on tax investigations that entrepreneurs say will hamper business and foster corruption.
Russian lawyers criticized the Kremlin on Tuesday in a rare display of public discontent, speaking against a court reform that would abolish what they called the most progressive branch of Russia’s judiciary.
An ambulance was called to a Moscow court where opposition activists are on trial for taking part in an anti-government rally that turned violent last year, a lawyer said Tuesday.
A court in St Petersburg has bailed three Russian nationals who were among 30 arrested during an Arctic protest.
Japan placed its air force on alert after two Russian bombers flew near its airspace, a local news agency reported Monday, citing Japan’s Defense Ministry.
Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny has been chosen as chairman of the new Popular Alliance party.
A passenger plane plunged vertically when it crashed onto an airport runway in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board, Russia’s transport minister says.
Russian law enforcement agencies say a special operation against an armed militant group is under way outside Makhachkala, Daghestan.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday was officially informed of the conclusion of the investigation into the Yves Rocher embezzlement case, Navalny wrote on his Twitter account.
