Tortures in Russia Permitted by Law
The Russian penitentiary (penal) system is one of the most off-limits for society. What happens under control of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN of Russia) to prisoners in penal colonies,...
Archive for 2019
Spent Nuclear Fuel in Use
Rosatom has announced the launch of construction of a research molten-salt cooled reactor at the Zheleznogorsk mining and chemical plant. The process will take at least ten years. If successful, it...
Secret Service Reports
Rosgeologiya geological surveys have significantly increased deposits of gold in the Krasnoyarsk territory. As a minimum, there are two big deposits in the north of the region. Their reserves are...
Governor's KPI for Furgal: a Verdict or a Compliment?
The trendy concept of KPI has already crept into the most conservative industries. The Kremlin decided to keep pace with time and set key performance indicators for vice-governors. However, a scandal...
KrAZ Needs Buffer Area Badly
RUSAL’s scandalous public hearing was finally recognised as valid in Krasnoyarsk. The event that took place in Krasnoyarsk’s Sovetsky District Administration in mid-October developed into a scandal...
Putin and Medvedev’s Mysterious Train: Russians Look Inside
Offices and jets of top officials -- there is plenty of information about them, but today Russians have got a unique chance to look inside the special train used by President Vladimir Putin and Prime...
“You Need a Medical Checkup”: Russian Communists’ Leader Comes Down On The Government
“The liberals in the corridors of power are destroying the real economy sector,” said Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and deputy of the State Duma.
Stefan Dürr’s Milk Boiling Over
EkoNiva-APK, one of the Russia’s leading agricultural holding companies, has produced about 550,000 tons of milk in the first nine months of this year. The company's press service reported in...
How Many Columbines to Expect in Russian Schools?
A yet another tragedy related to teenage aggression, when a 19-year-old college student shot his classmates and then himself, has sunk into media oblivion ... until the next case in the same line. We...
Cyprus Strips Russian Businessmen of Citizenship
Several Russian business captains and their family members have lost Cypriot citizenship, which they received in exchange for investments in the Cypriot infrastructure. Among them, media reports...
How Is The Election of the Vladivostok’s Mayor Turning Out For Kozhemyako?
“Give Power to the People!” – this slogan helped the incumbent governor of the Primorsky (Maritime) territory to win election. Oleg Kozhemyako has promised voters to bring back the direct elections...
Sergey Levchenko On a Tight Leash
Sergey Levchenko, the governor of Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia has announced his intention to run for a second term. The news has triggered a new PR attack against him. Predictably, the...
Privatization Going On But Not For Everyone
Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development has made up its mind on the list of state assets to be privatized in the period of 2020 through 2022. Now the government is to examine it and make a decision...
Nikita’s Death in the Tambov-Moscow Train Carriage
Why does the mysterious death of Nikita Isayev, the Kremlin-affiliated person, make us look askance on the administration of the Tambov Governorate? Might a visit to three restaurants in Tambov that...
Who Wins From Suppressing Novotrans?
The cargo company Novotrans, one of the top ten largest Russian railway operators, has been suddenly accused of money laundering. How might it be connected with a bond-secured loan of over 50 bln...
Usolyekhimprom’s Demercurization: One Step At a Time
The July statement by Svetlana Radionova, the chair of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage (Rosprirodnadzor), who said the “ecological Chernobyl” is located in the Irkutsk...
Bosov's Attack: Sibanthracite’s Owner Covering Up His Failures With “Black PR?”
Mikhail Abyzov's legal problems have affected not only the ex-minister but also some of his partners, too. The owner of Sibanthracite Group Dmitry Bosov associated with Abyzov, who has been caught in...
Lukashenko Admits the Suspending of Integration With Russia
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has mentioned the impossibility of the process of integration with Russia, if it contradicts the fundamental law of the Republic of Belarus. He called...
Accounts Chamber Claims an “Anti-Record” of Budget Expenditure
The execution of the federal budget for the first three quarters turned out to be unsatisfactory -- budget expenditure was used by less than two thirds, which is an anti-record for the past ten years.
Operation Reshuffle 2.0: the Expert Predicts What Happens in Russia in 2024
According to some information, Vladimir Putin is not thinking about the successor, and his press secretary Dmitry Peskov says that now “it’s not the right time for talking” but, rather, “time to...
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