Alexander Chachava, an investor and Ozon’s largest shareholder, bought his stake in the company with money from entities controlled by Gennady Timchenko, a billionaire and friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The group was found…
A Moscow court handed a four-year suspended sentence to Leonid Stepanov, an employee of Russia’s federal communications regulator Roskomnadzor, on charges of financing extremism, according to the independent news outlet Mediazona.
Police in Saratov detained Nikolai Bondarenko, a Communist Party (KPRF) candidate for Russia’s State Duma and a former lawmaker in the Saratov regional legislature, on Friday, August 21.
Ukraine’s president makes plea ahead of summit this week in Ankara where he is due to meet Trump on the sidelines Meanwhile, the UK has just sanctioned Russian actors involved in researching, developing and producing the novichok nerve agent and the lethal toxic Epibatidine, used in the Salisbury at…