A YEAR after the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who claimed to have uncovered huge corruption in Russia's Interior Ministry, officials from the same ministry claimed this week that Mr Magnitsky himself was implicated in the fraud.The Independent (London, England)...
Separately activist Vladimir Kara-Murza speculated that fellow dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian penal colony in February, might still be alive had the West agreed the swap with the Kremlin sooner. He acknowledged how difficult it had been for Germany to agree to rel...
Navalny's whereabouts were unknown for two weeks late last year. He re-appeared at the so-called "Polar Wolf" jail complex in Russia's Arctic Circle, considered to be one of the country's toughest prisons. His lawyer, who visited him last week, reported him to be "fine." He...
that impressed the one who's talking with its size. The literally translation should be "unfuckable" низахуйсобачу ~ ni za khuj sobachy - 1. for nothing; 2 in vain( and may be also in vain and accidentaly) eg Pomer ni za khuy sobachy Died in vain note Literally ...
The second is Boris Berezovsky, another critic of the Russian regime, who died in a staged suicide in 2013. Karakurt is also known to have lent his skills to the Cabal.” I don’t know how teachable this odd plot twist in The Blacklist‘s lethal fairytale spy-versus-spy kingdom is,...
Turchinov is an ally of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who was freed from jail moments before parliament removed Yanukovich. Tymoshenko, a former prime minister, has said she does not want to return to the job, which could go to economist Arseny Yatsenyuk, who ran her party while...
Its founder and long-time leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died in April, had gained a reputation as a political showman for his outrageous stunts and eccentric behaviour. The party has a history of recruiting controversial personalities into ...
Vladislav Yurchenko, an anarchist from Russia who stood up in defense of the peoples of Ukraine, has died in battle You may have recently read about an anarchist from Russia with the call sign Pirate who was fighting against Putin’s troops in the ranks of the Siberian Battalion. He is 22...
He died at the age of 37 in a pistol duel with his brother-in-law Dantes-Gekkern, that way materializing the prophecy of an old Russian oracle: that his life will be brought to an early end at that very age, either by a white horse or a man white man. ...
My friend has had three jobs in a year; he never sticks to anything for long. Roger Miller's father died when he was only one year old and his mother became sick soon after, so he was sent to live with his uncle in Erick, Oklahoma. ...