Day: December 5, 2019
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U.S. Sanctions Russian Cybercrime Outfit ‘Evil Corp’
The U.S. Treasury Department said it would sanction a Russian group known as “Evil Corp” and its leaders for cyber-thefts at hundreds of financial institutions around the world that total more than $100 million. The targets include the group’s leader, identified as Maksim Yakubets. The U.S. said he also worked for the Russian Federal Security…
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Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee and Mongolia’s Deputy Prime Minister sign Memorandum of Understanding
Release December 5, 2019, 18:00 Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Ulziisaikhan Enkhtuvshin, Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, signed today in Sochi a Memorandum of Understanding. The document provides for a joint assessment of the feasibility of pipeline gas supplies from Russia to China across Mongolia. Information Directorate, Gazprom Related news
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Libya to Send List of 800 Russian Mercenaries to Moscow – AP
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Moscow’s Magical Chinese Lantern Festival, in Photos
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Expelled Russian Diplomats Linked to Military Intelligence – German Media
Two Russian diplomats that Germany expelled over the assassination of a Chechen rebel in Berlin worked for the GRU military intelligence agency, Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung daily reported Wednesday. Germany sent the two unnamed Russian Embassy employees home because it said Moscow did not sufficiently cooperate with Berlin in its investigation into the August murder of…
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Belarus’ Lukashenko Dismisses Fears Russia Could Swallow His Country
The veteran leader of Belarus on Thursday dismissed opposition fears that a possible integration pact with Russia could end with his country losing its independence to Moscow, saying the two countries were not discussing deeper political ties. Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, is due to hold talks on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
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‘The Darker My Future, The Wider My Smile’: Student Protester Zhukov’s Closing Statement
Popular YouTube blogger and political science student Yegor Zhukov faces up to five years in prison on charges of calling for extremism online, a case that critics say is politically motivated. Authorities initially charged Zhukov, 21, with mass unrest in connection with anti-government protests that swept Moscow this summer. After fellow students and activists campaigned…
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Ahead of Eastern Ukraine Peace Talks, Putin Is Sitting Pretty
It has been more than three years since the leaders of Russia and Ukraine sat down with their counterparts in France and Germany to thrash out a deal aimed at finally bringing an end to the conflict between pro-Russian separatists and Kiev’s forces in eastern Ukraine. On Monday, after repeated fits and starts, Russian President…
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No Russia Agreement, No Donbass, Warns Ukraine
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Music and More Awarded in Moscow
November is one of the awards months in the Russian capital, starting with the Snob magazine “Made in Russia” awards on Nov. 13. Held for the eighth time at the Malaya Bronnaya Theater, the “Made in Russia” prize is awarded to the best thing that has happened in the country in a year in the…
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ROSATOM subsidiary awards contract for construction of BREST-OD-300 fast reactor facility and power unit
Siberian Chemical Plant (a subsidiary of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM in Seversk, Tomsk region, West Siberia) has signed the contract with Concern Titan-2 engineering company for construction and installation works within the project of BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor facility. The total contract value is 26.3 billion rubles. The contractor will accomplish construction of…
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Russia Expels Bulgarian Diplomat in Tit-for-Tat Move
The Russian government has expelled a Bulgarian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move after Sofia asked Moscow to recall a diplomat on suspicion of espionage, Bulgaria’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, has been informed that the diplomat must leave Russia within the next 24 hours in line with diplomatic protocol, the ministry said…
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Russian Parliament Demands Apology From Norway as Tensions Escalate
Senator Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Federation Council’s foreign affairs committee, and Rune Resaland, the Norwegian Ambassador to Russia, had a tense meeting Wednesday as they discussed the countries’ relations and the 2018 arrest of a Russian parliamentary aide. Kosachev told the Norwegian ambassador that there could be no normal cooperation between the two countries’…
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Russia’s Economic Policy to Underpin Economic Growth – World Bank
Economic growth in Russia will be higher than expected in 2019 and is likely to pick up in the next few years thanks partly to higher state spending and looser monetary policy, the World Bank said on Wednesday. Russia’s economic growth has waned this year as investment activity evaporates and consumer demand flatlines, but it…
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Russian Judges Eye Punishments for ‘Biased’ Media Coverage
Russian judges are considering punishing journalists and media outlets for “biased coverage” of the national court system, the Vedomosti business daily reported Thursday, a move that observers say would harm free speech in the country. The Russian judicial system’s 2020-2030 draft information policy obtained by Vedomosti aims to penalize the publication of “negative materials” about…
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Did Erdogan ‘Personally Authorize’ Shooting Down of Russian Jet?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan allegedly authorized the downing of a Russian warplane in an incident that briefly soured their relationship four years ago, the Turkey-focused Nordic Monitor website reported, citing a report to NATO it says it obtained. A Turkish F-16 interceptor shot down a Russian fighter-bomber near the Syrian border with an air-to-air…