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A Spanish judge has issued an order for the arrest of high-ranking Russian officials said to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and involved in organized crime.
President Vladimir Putin fired several high-ranking law enforcement officials over the weekend in one of the biggest reshuffles of law-enforcement in years. He also appointed economist Aleksei Kudrin as deputy chair of the presidential economic council.
Police are investigating mass deaths of animals at a shelter in Moscow; 100 activists are blocking the building; one protester was beaten attempting to rescue an animal.
Russia launched a missile from the Vostochny space center finally after several days of technical problems and the personal intervention of President Vladimir Putin who visited the site.
Moscow law-enforcers inspected all 9 train stations this afternoon and evacuated the Kursk Station after anonymous bomb threats were made by telephone.
Putin’s ratings have sagged with the economic crisis, even as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sees an improvement in his ratings, as does anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny.
Gazeta has published claims based on multiple government sources that the sale of RBC has been induced on orders from President Vladimir Putin, who was personally unhappy with the negative coverage of the Panama Papers implicating himself, his family members and close associates in corruption.
President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met yesterday in Moscow amid reports of Russian aerial incidents against Israel’s jets in Syria.
Thousands of Muscovites have gathered this afternoon to protest the razing of an architectural monument, the old Tagansk Telephone Exchange
