Moreover, Valery Solovey, a Russian political scientist, says that Vladimir Putin’s health is so poor that he has to get ready even for annual press conference in advance. Moreover, chances are the...
Chances that sanctions will be removed from Oleg Deripaska, Russia's “Aluminum King” and the owner of the largest aluminum company in the world, are next to none. Apparently, the same is true of the...
According to the opposition activist Gennady Gudkov, who is a former colonel of the Federal Security Service (FSB), he came to these conclusions on the grounds of numerous factors. For example, to...
In August, two grave accidents coincidently occurred on Russian mines. However, these are not the only cases during recent years. Wek.ru decided to recall the most infamous accidents that have...
Among other things, according to Anatoly Wasserman, a well-known Russian news analyst, the candidates are being elected with due consideration of mistakes made in the past. The reason is the...
For example, pigs once transmitted whooping cough to humans. Tuberculosis, one of the terminal illnesses of recent decades, was transmitted from goats. Smallpox came from camels, and leprosy from...
The general plan of the installation of gas services of the Republic of Khakassia, located in the south of Eastern Siberia, has been long outdated. However, there is still no money for implementation...
“During his visit to Russia, the Belarusian President is likely to make a number of important statements about the future relations between Russia and Belarus,” Marat Bashirov, a Russian political...
A court has opened hearings into the criminal case of the Sisim company. Its line of business includes the mining, milling, and preparing of miscellaneous metal ores. At present, three top executives...
Since Sergey Sobyanin became Moscow’s mayor, people and the expert community have a mixed opinion about him. Later, when Sobyanin and his inner circle got used to the situation in Moscow, the process...
According to Ilya Graschenkov, a Russian political scientist, in 2021, people might observe the large-scale personnel changes affecting almost every power institution in Russia.
“Mikhail Mishstin was nicknamed Khrushch in the Kremlin,” said Valery Solovey referring to his own sources in the presidential administration. “It is a shortcut from Nikita Khrushchev. He has even...
“The worst is yet to come,” said economist Mikhail Khazin. “The sabotage of Putin's instructions that we observed in spring has every chance to occur again. Moreover, if there is the second wave of...
As it turned out, protesters in Khabarovsk, the city in far eastern Russia, have started collecting signatures under a petition for President Vladimir Putin’s resignation and for holding a new...
The conflict between the shareholders of Petropavlovsk PLC, a London-based gold mining company with operations in Russia, is turning into a banal corporate raid on assets. It is noteworthy that...
The “сarbon tax,” the introduction of which is scheduled as early as 2021 and 2022, might put Russian companies working for export into losses in the amount of 33 to 50 bln euros in the period up to...
Well-informed sources indicate that motivational fees might be introduced in the future for people who will tip the information off to the Federal Tax Service about pensioners who somehow evade...
Moreover, according to Mikhail Delyagin, a Russian economist and head of the Institute for Globalization Problems, at the beginning of this year Mikhail Mishustin who previously served as Director of...
“However, at present, the problem is that the government has to somehow liquidate a serious budget deficit which might reach 5 trln rubles ($160.92 mln) by the end of the year,” said Ruslan...
Mikhail Khazin, a Russian economist, believes that Vladimir Putin has recently found himself in much the position that Alexander Lukashenko, his Belarusian counterpart, got into a few weeks before...
