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03/07/2010 - 16:00
Former officials are embarrassed and angered by the FBI's uncovering of an alleged spy ring in the United States, saying it points to the sorry state of spy craft since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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20/06/2010 - 21:36
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tax authorities have filed a suit against the local branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) accusing it of producing a false audit for fallen oil company YUKOS, the auditor said on Monday.
PwC said it acted strictly in line with the Russia's legislation and was ready to defend its position in court.
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18/06/2010 - 09:27
OSH, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan, an obscure country with a coveted location in Central Asia, is in serious danger of fragmenting. The crisis here, ebbing for now after days of ethnic violence and military atrocities, could have ramifications all the way to Washington.
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18/06/2010 - 09:28
Leadership steps up pressure on Britain to hand over Maxim Bakiyev, who is accused of organising violence against Uzbeks
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12/06/2010 - 13:51
Eurozpravy, a Czech news website, reported that Rejected applicants for international protection from Chechnya should be returned to their country of origin on a strictly voluntary basis, said the Czech Republic’s government Commissioner for Human Rights Michael Kocáb on June 9 Thursday.
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12/06/2010 - 13:54
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11/06/2010 - 20:02
What do you call someone who steals a credit card and uses it with no heed for the consequences? A thief and a fool. And what if they're stealing from the dead? I'm not sure there's a word for such a total absence of all moral principles, from respect of private property to respect for the dead.
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11/06/2010 - 20:03
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09/06/2010 - 09:06
RUSSIA'S GOVERNMENT has calculated that it needs better relations with the West to attract more foreign investment and modern technology, according to a paper by its foreign ministry that leaked to the press last month. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has recently made conciliatory gestures to Poland, while President Dmitry Medvedev sealed a nuclear arms treaty with President Obama.
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05/06/2010 - 10:14
The Russian owner of the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers has been questioned by Moscow police over allegations that he made death threats to a businessman and attempted to extort money from him.
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05/06/2010 - 10:15
MAGAS, Russia — Only one spectator showed up for the final hearing in the killing of Magomed Yevloyev. He was a broad-beamed, ruddy-faced man in a carefully pressed black suit, and once in the courtroom he removed his tall fur hat, set it on the bench beside him and waited for a chance to speak.
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01/06/2010 - 15:52
Moscow police ruthlessly crushed one of the largest opposition protests of recent years yesterday evening, just two days after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had said that similar rallies should be allowed to take place.
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01/06/2010 - 15:53
Talk of a Middle East cold war is inaccurate – Russia and Turkey are simply capitalising on the region's new power vacuum
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10/05/2010 - 21:55
Today, relatives of Ruslan Mutaliev, who was detained on May 7 in Ingushetia, have addressed human rights organizations with a request to puzzle out the situation.
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06/05/2010 - 21:45
In honor of World Press Day on Monday, the Paris-based press watchdog Reporters Without Borders released its annual list of “Predators of Press Freedom.” The list singles out forty politicians, government officials, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that, in their words, “cannot stand the press, treat it as an enemy and directly attack journalists.
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06/05/2010 - 21:48
Federal authorities have filed a criminal suit against the primary investigator allegedly involved in last week’s death of businesswoman Vera Trifonova, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday.
Vladimir Markin, official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General of Russia, said that investigator Sergei Pysin has been charged with neglect of duty. If convicted, he faces up to...
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30/04/2010 - 19:13
The Washington-based non-governmental organization Freedom House released its annual report on global press freedom on Thursday, complete with a particularly scathing analysis of the situation in Russia. Out of 196 countries, Russia took 175th place on a ranking of global press freedom, just beating out Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and China, and trailing slightly behind Congo and Yemen. Out of the...
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27/04/2010 - 20:45
One of the most widely speculated-upon – and evasive – questions in Russian politics today is who’s going to run in the 2012 presidential elections. When President Dmitri Medvedev took office in 2008, many experts believed that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would take the reins back up in 2012 when he regained eligibility to run – if not earlier. Since then, the two have formed their so-called “...
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27/04/2010 - 20:47
Ukraine's parliament erupted in chaos today as lawmakers approved a bitterly controversial deal allowing the Russian Navy to extend its stay in Ukraine until 2042.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Russia's Duma ratified the 25-year extension to the Russian Black Sea Fleet's base in Crimea in a parallel session less than an hour later.
In Kyiv, scuffles broke out and opposition deputies hurled...
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20/04/2010 - 22:38
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has trumpeted Russia's economic recovery and pledged reforms in a marathon speech at the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.
