Clouds And Money Over Roshydromet
Another chief of Russia’s Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) has lost his job. Maxim Yakovenko has been weather service director since 2017. Previously,...
Archive for November 2019
November 2019
Oleg Deripaska’s Ex Quitting En+ to Benefit Potanin?
The online newspaper Moscow Post has published the story about a possible sale of an equity stake in En+ Group by Polina Yumasheva, ex-spouse of Oleg Deripaska, to none other than Vladimir Potanin...
“System Comes To Be Shaky Under Putin” Ex-Deputy Minister Claimed About Instability of Russian Government
“Now none of them believe in what Vladimir Putin has built. They all are trying to wait out what is happening. Like so many others. For this reason, the situation looks extremely unstable now,” the...
Coal Dust Sprinkled On Mechel Head
Supervisory bodies repeatedly caught the Posiet trade port in Russia’s Primorski Krai (Territory) red-handed. However, the company didn’t mend its ways as it kept ignoring officials’ orders and...
How government regulation brought about to a medications collapse
The range of medicines available in the country is steadily declining. According to experts, between 700 and 900 drug names have disappeared from the market over the past few years. The problem...
Government Has a New Plan
The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation have defined the key parameters of the new funded pensions system, namely, the guaranteed pension plan (GPP). A bill on it will...
State Duma Offers to Bring Back Death Penalty: “Heinous Crimes Must Be Punished”
It is worth noting that the Russians generally do not object to the return of this penalty. A recent survey showed that about 80 percent Russians supported the idea of restoring the death penalty.
Personal Incomes to Fall 50 Percent: Expert Speaks About the Coming Crisis in Russia
Many experts believe that the Russians have to prepare for the next economic crisis. Traders and economists say this may happen next year.
Beginning of Power Transfer: Expert Comments on Gossip About Putin's Successor
Discussion of the politician with the host of the show began to move smoothly over to gossip about the successor: why was it necessary? Nikita Isayev claimed that, in his opinion, the talk about the...
Russian Secutocrats Against the Elite: Political Expert Speaks About Power Struggle in Russia
In the cold phase of the battle for future power, the leaders of Russian security and defense agencies have an obvious advantage over the elite. However, the political expert Valery Solovey believes...
Majority of Russians Support Drastic Reforms
About 60 percent of the Russians believe that significant transformations of the political system and other nationwide reforms are necessary. For comparison, in 2017 only 42 percent of the Russians...
“The Homeless Regiment” on the March
As of January 1, 2019, the register of ‘defrauded homebuyers’ in Russia included about 40,000 people in 68 regions. A total of 898 new buildings that are considered problematic account for about 17...
"Clean business" of Oleg Deripaska
It has become recently customary to say aut bene, aut nihil about Oleg Deripaska. A favorite of the Federal Tax Service, top government officials and Belarusian models, he has suffered greatly from...
Kirov half-life
All of a sudden, everybody has started talking about "local Chernobyls". And Russia abounds in places of this kind. Soon the Kirov region may become one of them. The situation with radioactive waste...
The Muddy Nature of Dmitry Bosov and Other Coalminers
Russia has finally signed the Paris agreement on climate change. Back in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that working within the framework of the agreement will require a "significant...
Siberian Shaman Traveling to Putin to Resume A Voyage To Moscow
Alexander Gabyshev, a shaman (witch doctor) from the east-Siberian region of Yakutia, who was detained after statements about his plans to walk from Siberia to Moscow and "expel Putin", has made...
State Duma Revives Sobering Stations
State Duma lower house of Parliament has passed the bills called upon to revive the system of medical sobering stations in the country. Police will have the right to pick intoxicated people and to...
Are Deripaska and Yakunin Jr. Laundering Money Abroad?
How hard the plight of a Russian oligarch is! Not only do they have to think about enlarging their capitals. They also have to care about their image abroad that has been tainted.
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