Owners Battle for TV Station
By Denys Bigus, Natalie Sedletska, Kyrylo Loukerenko and Lyubomyr Ferens A new team has abruptly taken over programming at...
Gazprom Media Holding
Russia: No Changes to Controversial Gas Contract With Ukraine
Russia will not change its controversial gas contract with Ukraine, the head of Russia’s state gas company Gazprom Alexei...
Russia: Kremlin Closely Linked to Gazprom Stock Deal
The family of Russia’s first deputy prime minister bought almost US$18 million worth of Gazprom shares through an offshore...
Russia: Authorities Investigate US$3.3 billion in Illegal Transfers
The Russian Interior Ministry is investigating several commercial banks for illegally transferring around US$3.3 billionout...
Money Laundering Cost Russia over $33 Billion in 2011
More than one trillion rubles (US$33.2 billion) left the Russian economy in 2011 as a result of money laundering, First...
Russia: Tensions and Corruption
Yaponchik (“the little Japanese”), a Russian gangster, reportedly died Friday, months after a sniper shot him several times...
A Glimpse of Russia’s History
When Gennadiy Petrov and Alexander Malyshev were arrested in Operation Troyka by Spanish police, investigators were offered...
In Russia, criminal prosecution is a tool of the powerful against their enemies
“For my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law.” - former Peruvian President Oscar R. Benavides