Driven by the desire to get more taxes from people, the government extended the regulations for registration of self-employed persons to 19 more regions in addition to the four regions where they had...
There is no doubt that the officials will take the credit of this "generous" gift to the disabled people. Moreover, some of them will continue uttering the words like "increase” and “premium" -- or...
The Kazakh village of Aukatty, where the ethnic group called the Dungans settled densely, looks like the war film shots: burnt-out houses and cars off the roads blackened by fire. Aukatty, Sortobe...
"Black sky mode" – this expression can often be heard in Russia’s major industrial cities. Usually it is set in frosty windless weather in winter. Sometimes during heatwaves in the summer. The...
The State Duma lower house of parliament has refused support a bill proposing to oblige state media to publish the results of party fractions' voting on the issues that are mandatory for publication...
The Ministry of Finance of Khakassia, Russia’s constituent republic located in the south of Siberia, has said that the region may face a default in the short term. Khakassia lacks about 14 billion...
The possible resignation of Vladislav Surkov from the post of Assistant to the Russian President is still causing an intrigue. He was also a supervisor of policies towards Ukraine.
The main owner of Togliattiazot PJSC, a US citizen Sergei Makhlay, convicted in absentia for especially large-scale fraud last year in July, became a defendant in another criminal case. Now Makhlay,...
Russia’s Pension Fund is reporting on its indisputable victories as regards the reduction of spending. The figures are impressive. In 2019 alone, the number of pensioners went down by 355,000...
Authorities in Crimea plan to fully brace themselves for a provocative march the extremist organization calling itself the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (banned in Russia by a ruling of the...
The wife and father of Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov are on the verge of bankruptcy, they owed Mishustin more than 3 million rubles, and that hasn’t prevented the adopted daughter of one of...
Disbanding of the Pension Fund, renunciation of the retirement age increase and the ban on imposition of new taxes – those were the demands issued to the new Prime Minister by A Just Russia party.
Right after the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took the lead in the Russian media space with a statement on resignation of the entire government.
It must be said that this request for changes has become much more acute in Russian society in the run-up to Putin's Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, because many people expect him to...
On January 22, Moscow and the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Russia’s constituent republic of Tatarstan met the team KAMAZ Master, the winner of the 2020 Dakar marathon rally. The Russian race drivers...
Gazprom's stocks with a total value of $5 bln have been purchased by clients of share investment funds. Forbes sources claim that the latter are under control of the specialized company Gazprombank -...
As the first move, people’s pension savings were frozen. Later, the retirement age was raised. Not long ago, the authorities made threats that fines would levied if any additional income was found....
It was expected that the reform of the garbage recycling system in Russia would as a minimum resolve the bulk of garbage utilization problems. But the on the power of tradition, “prompt” work of...
Apart from the obvious problems with the absence of vital drugs in the country, the Ministry of Healthcare also has some time bombs in its arsenal. The name of one of them is Cagocel.
While the Libyan Armed Forces under the command of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar were conducting an anti-terrorist operation to liberate Tripoli, Lev Dengov, the head of the Russian contact team for...
