The head of the American investment fund Hermitage Capital, Bill Browder, who has worked with Russia for about 11 years, spoke in an interview with CNN about the financial condition of President Putin. “I believe that it (Putin’s financial condition - ed.) is about 200 billion US dollars -...
Due to the Kremlin’s aggressive policy, Great Britain refused Russia’s participation in the international exhibition of military equipment DSEI-2015. This was stated by Deputy General Director of the Russian state corporation Rostec Dmitry Shugaev. “This year the English exhibition DSEI-2015 will be held without the participation of the developments of Russian gunsmiths. They sent us a refusal: “You...
Russian businessmen Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, who are friends of President Vladimir Putin, recently sold part of their assets to their sons, the Wall Street Journal reported. In particular, we are talking about a company that is engaged in drilling operations under a contract with Gazprom and fashionable ...
In the army, the number of cases where soldiers escaped from military units has doubled, and the number of malingerers evading military service has tripled. This is stated in the Rosstat report, which was at the disposal of Kommersant - they cover 2013 and the first...
Roskomnadzor sent the administration of the microblogging service Twitter a request for clarification of the company’s position on compliance with the requirements of Russian legislation, agency representative Vadim Ampelonsky told TASS. “They sent it on Friday (February 13 – editor’s note),” Ampelonsky said, refusing to comment on the details of the document. Twitter problems in Russia...
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a briefing on Friday about the situation in Ukraine: “We are extremely concerned about the continuation of hostilities along and outside the confrontation line, including in densely populated areas, as well as information about the supply of additional tanks and ...
French President Francois Hollande still does not see the conditions for the delivery of Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia. “The conditions for this have not yet been met. Let's hope that it will happen one day, ”he is quoted as saying after the EU RTL summit. When, on the issue of resolving the Ukrainian crisis, “everything ...
French President François Hollande announced after the EU summit last Thursday, February 12, that the leaders of the Normandy Four are planning to discuss the implementation of the Minsk agreements by phone next week, and may meet in person in a few weeks. His words are reported by RIA Novosti. "We…
The German foreign minister said the agreement between the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France on the Ukraine crisis does not fully reflect Berlin's wishes, but is an urgently needed retreat from violence and steps towards a new political momentum. "The most important…
US President Barack Obama said in an interview that he believes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is “stuck with one foot in the Soviet past” and that the US is concerned about the possibility of Moscow returning “to old expansionist ideas” due to economic problems. Obama's statements ...