Alexey Navalny faces possible imprisonment tomorrow in the highest-profile case against a critic of President Vladimir Putin since the prosecution of former oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
A St. Petersburg court has ruled that the city’s branch of the nongovernmental organization Memorial does not have to register as a “foreign agent” in a decision that could impact upon other NGOs hit with the same charges.
President Vladimir Putin praised the Russian military’s performance Wednesday in an extensive snap check of combat readiness of unprecedented scale in Russia’s Far East this week.
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday again said the Cabinet was slacking off. He blamed ministers for getting behind schedule in executing measures to develop the country’s Far East.
Russia has blocked the creation of the world’s largest ocean reserves off the coast of Antarctica, in what campaigners called a “bad faith stalling tactic.”.
Russia’s Air Force has begun a large-scale exercise in the west of the country involving the “biggest-ever deployment of the service’s new Sukhoi Su-34 strike aircraft,” a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
Russia has every chance of securing a place in the Asian gas market even while competition there is on the rise, President Vladimir Putin said, underlining Moscow’s shift in energy policy towards Asia.
President Vladimir Putin says Russian-American ties are more important than the issue of the fugitive former U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who is currently sheltering at a Moscow airport.
A bid to establish the world’s largest protected marine environment in the Southern Ocean has failed.
Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Tuesday that the Central Bank’s decision to launch auctions for loans secured against non-market assets and guarantees is a more effective way to boost economic growth than cutting key interest rates.
