The National Anti-Terrorist Committee, a coordinating body of Russia’s law-enforcement and government chaired by the Federal Security Service (FSB) director Aleksandr Bortnikov, has created a working group to discuss regulation of encrypted Internet traffic, according to Aleksandr Zharov, head of Roskomnadzor, the state censor.
The Golos Association, an NGO that independently monitored elections, has been fined 1.2 million rubles ($18,290) for violating the law on “foreign agents.”
The ruble fell in value against the dollar after the news from the meeting in Doha that oil-producing countries were not able to agree on a production freeze.
Kremlin propaganda has reached a new low, claiming William Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital who has spent years campaigning for justice in the murder of his tax specialist Sergei Magnitsky, was somehow complicit in his murder.
A search is underway in the offices of Oneksim, owned by oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, in a move to force him to sell the media company RBC (Russian Business Consulting)
Turkish police have arrested two Russians who they suspect of involvement in the assassination of Caucasus Emirate fighter and fundraiser Abdulvakhid Edelgireyev in Istanbul last year.
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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov cited Putin’s claims during that speech that US officials privately apologized to Putin for the forthcoming Panama allegations although no such statement has been made by the US.
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Putin’s bodyguard has been named the head of the powerful National Guard, a move the Kremlin denies has anything to do with the upcoming elections…
