MOSCOW — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 4,000 people were detained by police, according to a monitoring group, and some were beaten. Russian authorities mounted a massive

   The Verkhovna Rada intends to declassify information on the salaries of the management of state-owned companies. 282 MPs voted for the adoption of bill No. 3952, with the minimum required 226, Ukrainian News Agency reports. The document proposes to ensure openness of information on the structure, principles of formation and amounts of remuneration, fees, additional benefit of the head,

   The G7 ambassadors welcomed the draft law on reforming the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in the first reading. The UK Presidency of the G7 Ambassadors’ Support Group in Ukraine wrote about this this on its Twitter account on January 29. “G7 Ambassadors welcome positive steps towards reform of the SBU in line with

   Annexation of the Donbas is not on the agenda, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the words of Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan, who called on the Kremlin to “take the Donbas home.” Peskov noted that Simonyan is a media manager and journalist and cannot express Moscow’s official position on this issue. “Such a topic is not on