Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent meeting with top businessmen in the Kremlin was held under conditions of heightened secrecy for the first time in several years. Not one of the 60 invitees, which included state bankers, the senior managers of state corporations, the owners of prominent companies and government officials – from Central Bank Head Elvira Nabiullina to presidential aide

2020 Winter letter marathon for the Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin DECEMBER 24, 2019 IN SUPPORT 63 We are launching the traditional winter letter marathon for the Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, to give them a bit of warmth before Christmas and the New Year. At least 87 Ukrainian citizens sentenced without a crime will meet the winter holidays

Russia’s population could drop by more than 12 million by 2035, the national statistics office said in its annual forecast published Friday. Russia’s overall population dropped for the first time in a decade last year, totaling 146.8 million as migration inflows hit record lows. It totaled 146.7 million so far in 2019, the State Statistics Service Rosstat said this month, as Russia experienced its highest natural

Russian airlines and airports were paralyzed for several hours due to a major disruption of the internet. As a result, the systems responsible for booking and buying tickets, flight registration and baggage and flight monitoring stopped working, Ura.ru reports, citing a source in one of the airlines. According to the source, the disruption could be linked to the testing of the

27.12.2019 16:42The Russian command has increased the use of civilian infrastructure facilities to locate certain units and to store heavy weapons in the area of Kalmiuske and Debaltseve towns in Donetsk region. “The command of Russian-occupation forces continues taking measures to cover up their violations of the Minsk agreements with regard to removal of 122mm and 152mm artillery and multiple

In response to the US’s sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 project, which halted pipe-laying operations in the Baltic Sea in a mere day, Russia could expand its list of US citizens who are banned from entering the country, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Russian Interfax news agency. Unlike the US’s blacklists, Russia’s lists are not public. Thus the people on

The President’s Office has held no consultations on the issue with the Mejlis, the official claims. Refat Chubarov – Photo from UNIAN Ukrainian officials have not put in a prisoner exchange list any held persons detained in the occupied Crimea, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, ex-MP Refat Chubarov wrote on Facebook. The President’s Office has held

27.12.2019 12:59The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a bill on the labor market reform. Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk wrote about this on his Telegram channel. “The labor market reform means 1,000,000 new jobs in five years and finding a new job in two months. The government approved the labor bill,” Honcharuk wrote. According to the prime minister, the bill envisages

Russian police on Thursday arrested the country’s leading opposition leader Alexei Navalny and conducted fresh searches at his Moscow-based anti-corruption foundation, a spokeswoman said. “Alexei has been forcibly detained and led away,” his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. “He did not put up resistance,” she said, adding that searches at the FBK anti-corruption foundation were under way. Yarmysh suggested