Edward Snowden spoke about his desire to return to Geneva, where he lived from 2009 to 2011. The American said this during the Moscow-Geneva teleconference. “I think Switzerland would be a great place from a political point of view, as it ...
“Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic shot dead last week, has always stood out among the motley collection of former ministers, retired intelligence officers, billionaire oligarchs, intellectuals and other members of Russia's lukewarm liberal opposition,” writes New York Times correspondent Neil MacFarquhar. Now the question is...
Georgia will send a note of protest to Russia regarding military exercises in the occupied territories of Georgia. “This is a step by Russia, which once again violates the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia, violates the norms and principles of international law, all agreements to which Russia is a signatory. Including…
Vladimir Putin signed a decree on salary cuts for Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and employees of the presidential administration. Their salaries will decrease by 10 percent. The salaries of employees of the presidential administration are traditionally higher than those of other officials. According to Rosstat, in 2014, employees of the presidential administration received the highest average ...
The weekly magazine Bloomberg Businessweek placed Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the cover of its latest issue, signing their portraits with the phrase “Putin against the Accountant.” “She's from Chicago. Her last job was at a private equity fund. And the future of Ukraine...
The most frequent violation of Russian bloggers was foul language. As Roskomnadzor calculated, it was she who accounted for 60% of all violations. This is followed by the propaganda of drugs (24%), insulting the feelings of believers (6%), extremism and propaganda of Nazi paraphernalia (5% each). On August 1, 2014, Russia entered ...
In Moscow, the president of the Club of the cheerful and resourceful (KVN), Alexander Maslyakov Sr., was attacked. The incident occurred near the House of KVN on Sheremetyevskaya Street, where the first game of the 1/8 finals of the Premier League took place on Wednesday evening. An unknown person attacked Maslyakov when he was getting into the car. ...
Thirty years ago, historian and diplomat George F. Kennan published a landmark article in Foreign Affairs entitled "Morality and Foreign Policy," in which he condemned the stubborn tendency of American foreign policy makers to view any emerging geopolitical problem as a solvable problem ...
In Ireland, passenger planes changed their flight path due to two Russian bombers. They flew without warning forty kilometers off the coast of Ireland. Since their transponders were turned off, there was no communication with them. Transponders transmit information about an aircraft to air traffic controllers: its type, height, location ...
“On Monday, Forbes released its annual list of the world's richest people. The 29th ranking included 1826 billionaires, whose wealth totaled $7,05 trillion, but what was striking was the absence of one person, whose wealth many have known for a long time...