Russian officials complained on Monday that the United States routinely disregards extradition requests by the Russian government, the latest in a series of public statements that seem aimed at laying the groundwork for granting asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor on the run from the American authorities.
More than 50 of Russia‘s leading legal experts, most of them distinguished professors of law, havesigned an open letter warning that Russia’s constitutional order is “under threat.” The letter decries what it calls the systematic abuses of the rights of citizens by authorities bent on silencing political opponents.
Four Dutch nationals have been arrested in Russia on charges of spreading ‘homosexual propaganda’, Nos television reported on Monday.
The Moscow prosecutor’s office has lifted the ban on operations by the opposition movement Left Front led by Sergei Udaltsov.
During the State Duma’s fall session deputies from the Just Russia party will present a list of amendments to the economic amnesty law passed in early July, news reports said Monday.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed on Monday a resolution obliging officials of nearly 30 state companies to report their incomes and expenditures, in an apparent bid to crack down on corruption.
Russian opposition leader arrives in capital after being released from custody while appeal is heard against jail sentence
Izhmash arms factory, manufacturer of the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle, has won a 13 billion ruble ($390 million) Defense Ministry tender for antitank missiles, the company said Monday, in one of its “largest state orders in recent years.”
Britain said on Friday that relations with Russia had played a part in its refusal to hold a public inquiry into the murder in London of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko but denied this had been the main consideration.
Russian riot police and Interior Ministry troops have detained dozens of demonstrators after thousands of Muscovites took to the streets to protest the conviction and jailing earlier in the day of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
