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The former head of the republic of Chechnya’s regional government, Muslim Khuchiyev, has been appointed as one of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s aides, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov said Friday. Khuchiyev stepped down on Tuesday as head of the Chechen government after nearly six years in office, making him the second Kadyrov ally to resign from a senior-ranking post in the republic this month. “Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin has appointed dear BROTHER Muslim Khuchiyev as his aide,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram. There was no immediate confirmation of the appoin...
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At least six former and current law enforcement officials have been arrested on various charges in Russia’s third-largest city of Yekaterinburg over the past week, the independent news website Govorit NeMoskvareported Friday. Andrei Dyakov, who heads the anti-corruption department at the Sverdlovsk region branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry, was charged with abuse of power and bribery. Authorities accuse him of accepting 200 million rubles ($2.2 million) in bribes, allegations that he denies. A Yekaterinburg courtruled Thursday to keep Dyakov in pre-trial detention until July 20, according to...
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A senior procurement officer in Russia’s Defense Ministry has been charged with abuse of power, Russian law enforcement authorities announced late Thursday. Investigators accuse Vladimir Verteletsky of taking a bribe in relation to “work that was not carried out” under a government contract in 2022, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes. The law enforcement body said the sign-off had cost the state “over 70 million rubles” ($773,500) and added that Verteletsky was placed in pre-trial detention. The senior procurement official’s arrest comes just hours after R...
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursdaysigned a decree that allows Moscow to take control of U.S. property as compensation for any seizure of frozen Russian assets in the United States. Washington and its European allies seized or blocked around $300 billion of Russian financial assets shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In response to those punitive measures, Moscow moved the assets of many foreign investors to special accounts that cannot be transferred outside Russia without the Kremlin’s approval. Thursday’s decree instructs Russia’s state commission on monitoring foreign invest...
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to significant disruptions in the migratory patterns of a vulnerable species of eagles, according to a new study00519-0#tbl1), forcing the birds to travel increasingly longer distances as they fly to reach their breeding grounds. Greater spotted eagles, whose breeding grounds stretch from most of Eastern Europe to as far away as Far East Russia’s Primorye region, are now flying on average 85 kilometers more during migration seasons in areas impacted by the war. This species of eagles usually migrates through September to November in the fall, and...
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to significant disruptions in the migratory patterns of a vulnerable species of eagles, according to a new study00519-0#tbl1), forcing the birds to travel increasingly longer distances as they fly to reach their breeding grounds. Greater spotted eagles, whose breeding grounds stretch from most of Eastern Europe to as far away as Far East Russia’s Primorye region, are now flying on average 85 kilometers more during migration seasons in areas impacted by the war. This species of eagles usually migrates through September to November in the fall, and...
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Estonia's border guards on Thursday said their Russian counterparts had removed buoys overnight from the Narva River, which separates the two neighboring countries, amid a dispute over the shared border. Tallinn said it was only since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that Moscow has contested the placement of the floating markers used to prevent boats from accidentally straying into foreign waters. "This year, Russia announced that they would not agree with the locations of about half of the planned" buoys, Estonia's border guard service said in a statement. Early Thursday morning, Estonian ...
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At least eight people were killed and one other was injured in a hostel fire in the Moscow region town of Istra, emergency officialssaid Friday. The fire broke out at 4:00 a.m. local time and was extinguished around five hours later, the Emergency Situations Ministry’s local branchsaid, according to the news agency Moskva. A video shared by Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry showed the charred remains of the building. The Moscow region prosecutor’s officesaid an unidentified 23-year-old man had rented the building and sublet it to undocumented migrants. The law enforcement body said it lau...
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Norway on Thursdayannounced that it would restrict entry to Russian tourists, shutting their last direct access to Europe's border-free Schengen area. “Russian citizens whose purpose is tourism and other non-essential travel will be rejected upon entry across the external border,” the Norwegian government said in a statement, adding that the new restrictions will take effect on May 29. Norway, a NATO member that shares a 198-kilometer border with Russia in the Arctic, stopped issuing most tourist visas to Russians in the spring of 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The gov...
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Russia has arrested a general on corruption allegations, state media reported Thursday, making him the third senior-ranking officer to face fraud-related criminal charges over the past month. A military court placed Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin in pre-trial detention until late July, the state-run TASS news agency reported, citing the court. “On May 22, the court chose a preventive measure for Shamarin in the form of detention for a period of two months,” a court official was quoted as saying by the agency. The official added that Shamarin is accused of accepting a bribe “at an especially...
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