A Syrian opposition leader is undermining chances for proposed peace talks by saying that foes of President Bashar al-Assad will only attend if they make military headway first, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Russia’s prosecutor general on Tuesday accused 215 NGOs of bypassing a recent law on foreign funding by refusing to register themselves as foreign agents.
Striking changes have started taking place in Russia’s armed forces since Sergei Shoigu took over as defense minister. For example, last week the military posted what until then had been top-secret data online — specifically, the nation’s army and navy development and building plans through 2020.
Prosecutors have accused three nonprofit organizations of extremist activity in the course of a large-scale inspection, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said on Wednesday.
Russians believe that the level of corruption in the country has gone up over the last two years despite government efforts to fight it and that graft has become one of society’s worst afflictions, Transparency International’s Russia office said.
The dress code prohibited the wearing of any religious clothing or clothes with religious symbols. It also banned casual clothes considered too revealing and shoes with heels higher than seven centimeters.
Cyprus, Hong Kong, the Cook Islands, Switzerland, Latvia, and other ‘offshores’ is where over $45.5 billion of Russian wealth ended up in the first half of 2013, according to new figures from the Russian Central Bank. The figure is up more than a third year-on-year, which last year reached 1 trillion roubles, Izvestia reports.
Russia’s lower house of parliament last week approved an amnesty which could free thousands of entrepreneurs jailed for business crimes.
Investigators arrived at the offices of opposition leader Alexei Navalny‘s Foundation to Fight Corruption and began seizing documents Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman for the organization said on Twitter.
Russia will launch two Glonass navigation satellites later this year to make up for the loss of three satellites in the recent Proton rocket explosion after launch from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a senior space industry official said.
