Defense Minister Official Detained in Billion Ruble Fraud Case
A new figure has appeared in the scandalous criminal case of the gang of crooks who stole 150 apartments from the Defense Ministry. Stanislav Balyukin, an official in the Defense Ministry, was detained...
View ArticleInvestigative Committee Ready to Open Criminal Case Against Ponomarev
The Russian Investigative Committee intends to press charges against Ilya Ponomarev, State Duma Deputy from Just Russia, in connection with an investigation of payments of hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleKhodorkovsky Appeal: Judges May Be Forced to Decide on Merits of Case
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will review a supervisory appeal of the December 2010 sentencing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev by the Khamovniki Court. The Supreme Court took...
View ArticlePresidential Administration Lawyers Not Allowed to Become Realtors
Police have detained officers of the Center for Financial and Legal Support of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise of the Russian Federation Administrative Department of the President, suspected of...
View ArticleEven Hospitals Contribute to United Russia
[According to the Central Election Commission data for 2012, the ruling United Russia party is the Russia’s wealthiest political party: its earnings amounted to 3.9 billion roubles ($122 million), most...
View ArticleFurther Details of GLONASS Embezzlement Emerge
[The following article describes the latest developments in the investigation into the embezzlement of funds from the GLONASS satellite programme. Investigators have revealed that the management of a...
View ArticleMy Husband is Free!
[In 2008, Moscow businessman Aleksei Kozlov was arrested on fraud charges. His wife, Olga Romanova, a veteran financial journalist, investigated his case and debunked the evidence against him. The...
View ArticleWinter Olympics in the Sub-Tropics: Corruption and Abuse in Sochi
[The following is a translation of excerpts of a report written by opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and Solidarity activist Leonid Martynyuk, detailing allegations of rampant corruption in the...
View ArticleUnited Russia is Planning a Purge of its Ranks
[On June 11, the All-Russia People's Front is set to host its inaugural party congress, at which Vladimir Putin is expected to be in attendance. Rumors are circulating in the Russian press that the...
View ArticleNew Developments in GLONASS Embezzlement Case
[This article reports on new criminal complaints filed in relation to the embezzlement of millions of dollars from the GLONASS satellite navigation programme—Ed.] The Interior Ministry has filed a...
View ArticleThat Flexible Word “Freedom”
[At the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin discussed Internet freedom with global business leaders as the Russian parliament initially approved a draft anti-piracy law despite an outcry...
View ArticleDeputies Accused of Living Beyond Their Means
[The Russian section of Transparency International monitored the income declarations of State Duma deputies and calculated the cost of their acquisitions. The researchers caught dozens of deputies with...
View ArticleArrested Ex-Mayor May be Involved in Murder of well-known Dagestan Athlete
Investigators do not rule out that Musail Alaudinov could have been killed as a potential witness. In Dagestan there have been new developments in the murder case of Mr. Mussail Alaudinov, a 38-year...
View ArticleFive Moscow Mayoral Candidates and Their Money
Along with the signatures and documents needed for registration in the elections for mayor of Moscow, the candidates provided their first financial reports on the contributions and expenditures of...
View ArticleIt Looks like Putin Wrote Just a Couple of Pages of His Thesis
Long before the series of exposures of high-level officials who plagiarized their academic theses, Igor Danchenko and Clifford Gaddy of the Brookings Institution found out that Vladimir Putin’s thesis...
View ArticleGolos Equates Mayoral and Presidential Elections
The Golos movement has proposed to acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin that video surveillance be provided for the mayoral elections on 8 September. Kommersant learned at the Moscow City Electoral...
View ArticleBilalov Indicted
Magomed Bilalov was indicted in absentia in the case of a 45.5 million-ruble bank loan scam. In the near future he may be declared wanted by federal and international authorities. – Ed. The Interior...
View ArticleNavalny Urges Putin to Investigate Yakunin’s Property
Opposition politician Alexei Navalny appealed to President Vladimir Putin to verify the legality of the circumstances under which Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways, allegedly became the...
View ArticleNo More Vehicles for Personal Use by Public Officials
Mikhail Abyzov, the Minister for Open Government, proposed to stop the practice of procurement of cars for government officials. Earlier, representatives of the “All-Russia People’s Front” (ONF)...
View ArticleMr. Dudka, Former Regional Governor, Gets 9.5 Years in Prison
The Soviet District Court for the City of Tula found Vyacheslav Dudka, the former governor of Tula Region, guilty of of taking bribes, and sentenced him to 9.5 years in a maximum security penal colony,...
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