Russian prosecutors demanded a six-year jail sentence for protest leader Alexei Navalny on theft charges on Friday at a trial that he says is intended to sideline him as a rival to President Vladimir Putin.
A former tax inspector included on a draft version of the Magnitsky List of Russian officials banned from the United States for human rights abuses has become a suspect for Russian investigators looking into a huge tax scam, Kommersant newspaper reported Friday.
President Vladimir Putin has met with human rights activists and discussed a controversial law that requires foreign-funded, politically active NGOs to register as “foreign agents.”
A deputy of embattled Yaroslavl Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov, Dmitry Donskov, has incriminated his boss, claiming he played a key role in the bribe scheme both are being accused of, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Friday.
Self-styled Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov has called on members of the North Caucasus insurgency to prevent the holding of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in February 2014.
A Russian prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence the British former boss of late whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky to nine years in prison in a tax evasion trial that has been criticized by rights groups and Western governments.
A Russian opposition politician, whose election as a city mayor last year embarrassed President Vladimir Putin, was detained on Wednesday on corruption charges.
The State Duma is set to vote Wednesday in a first reading on a heavily criticized bill sponsored by the government that would strip the Russian Academy of Sciences of an important source of revenue: the right to lease its premises.
Russia’s state arms exporter said Wednesday that its order portfolio stood at $34 billion as of June 1.
The State Duma on Tuesday passed in the third and final reading the long-awaited economic crimes amnesty bill, which will free several thousand businessmen from the nation’s prisons.
