Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for the Investigative Committee and a controversial figure associated with Russia’s most politicized criminal prosecutions, is reportedly stepping down from his position, says a TASS source.
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Agents of Russia’s Investigative Committee accompanied by the OMON riot police confiscated documents at the Bank of Russia, known in Russia as the Central Bank, evidently related to $92 million missing from the International Joint-Stock Bank.
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While reporting on memorial services in Beslan, Elena Kostyuchenko suffered an attack from a young man in a t-shirt with the word “Anti-Terror” who poured zelyonka on her, an indelible disinfectant often used by thugs in Russia and Ukraine to humiliate liberal opposition and journalists.
The Ministry of Justice is making a surprise inspection of International Memorial Society for “foreign agent” status.
A series of arrests and searches in Russia related to yet another oligarch in Russia has analysts wondering if President Vladimir Putin is “sweeping out” the “oligarchs’ club” before elections in less than two weeks.
A prominent Chechen writer and former official has disappeared, joining a long list of others who have gone missing, only some of whom have returned to recant on TV.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed possible cooperation on Syria in a telephone call. Mothers of children killed by terrorists and journalists detained at memorial ceremony in Beslan.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN claims information about chemical weapons in Syria was fabricated; Russia also said cooperation with the US in Syria on air strikes will not include Aleppo.
