A Russian art group sponsored by the government has made a tasteless 2017 calendar featuring Syrian women posing with statements of gratitude to their “Russian liberators.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner private military company was present at the Kremlin for the Fatherland Heroes’ Day military awards ceremony on December 9, 2016.
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association, organizer of the World Championship event in Sochi in February 2017, has decided to move the event from Russia due to a potential boycott by countries and athletes concerned over Russian doping.
Former Trump advisor Carter Page, a managing partner of Global Energy Capital, met with senior officials from Rosneft, Russia’s oil giant yesterday but didn’t meet with CEO Igor Sechin, under sanction by the US for the war in Ukraine.
A Russian judge in Moscow’s Arbitration Court ruled today in favor of Rosneft in its lawsuit against RBC for “business reputation damage,” but set the damages at only $6,675, not the $52.2 million
that Rosneft had sought.
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President Vladimir Putin decreed that posthumous awards for valor should be given to two women medics killed and a colonel killed in Aleppo. The State Duma has drafted a budget that will draw heavily from the Reserve and National Welfare funds.
Lawyers at Team 29, a group of lawyers and journalists defending freedom of information in Russia, have discovered five cases of Russian women imprisoned on charges of treason for text messages they sent related to the Russian military and Georgia.
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