The influx of foreigners into Russia testifies to the country’s economic appeal, but it has also brewed indignation and criticism among the residents of many cities and towns throughout Russia.
Russia’s state-controlled oil giant Rosneft is ready to invest 1 trillion rubles ($30 billion) in the development of East Siberia and the Russian Far East in the next five years, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said Tuesday.
A U.N. Security Council committee is split over whether Iran’s missile tests last year violated U.N. sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Australia’s U.N. envoy said on Monday.
Awell-known Tajik opposition journalist has been denied entry at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
Russia’s chief health inspector has said a recent outbreak of African swine fever in Russia had its origin in neighboring Georgia.
“He reached the conclusion that he needs to write an application for temporary asylum (in Russia), and his procedure has just been done,” said Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer who met Snowden on Friday with human rights activists.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has conducted a large-scale inspection of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and discovered that more than 1,800 had received financing from abroad in the last year.
Russia, which is chairing the G20 in 2013, will spend around 7 billion rubles (around $215 million) organizing G20 events. The government has allocated around 2 billion rubles ($62 million) for the upcoming G20 summit in St. Petersburg.
The spring session of the upper house of parliament came to an end this week, but that may not signal an end to the steady stream of wealthy senators who have stepped down as the Kremlin put forward new restrictions on officials owning assets abroad.
Russian immigration officials said Saturday they have not received an application from Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency leaker who wants to get asylum in Russia.
