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Russia is due to start security negotiations with the US and NATO on 10 January and 12 January, respectively; previously, Russian officials warned that if NATO proceeds with eastward expansion, Moscow could resort to military options.
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A Russian court sentenced on Tuesday (29 December) the former chairman of Kazakh BTA Bank’s board of directors, Mukhtar Ablyazov, to 15 years in prison, Russian media reported. The story of Ablyazov, a fugitive for years, has been turned into a book as a striking example of the ability of post-Soviet kleptocrats to benefit from Western “hospitality”.
According to TASS, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow passed a verdict in absentia against Ablyazov, as well as the chairman of the board of BTA Bank, Roman Solodchenko, and their subordinates, Artur Trofimov, Igor Kononko, Tatyana Paraskevich, Anatoly Ereshchenko and Alexander Udovenko.
They have been found guilty of committing various crimes, and Ablyazov was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Kononko to 10 years, and Paraskevich to 12 years in prison. Ereshchenko and Udovenko were sentenced to 13 years each.