Tax police in Italy have seized assets worth more than 141 million euros ($144 million) said to belong to an architect who designed a luxury estate dubbed "Putin's Palace" by opponents of the Russian president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law imposing penalties for disclosing the personal data of security officials or their relatives, a move that could further hamstring efforts to expose corruption or hold Russian officials accountable.
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Four years ago, a court in the Russian Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk watched Kill The Cosmonauts a satirical music video that proposed murdering space adventurers for climbing toward heaven and was not amused.
The court found that the video, by a hardcore punk group called the Ensemble Of Christ The Savior And Crude Mother Earth, constituted extremist material. It banned the video, on the basis of a 2002 Russian law, and added it to a federal blacklist of prohibited materials. It is hard to imagine that the calls…contained in the text could be taken seriously even by the most radical audience, the
Activities At Navalny s Offices, FBK Suspended By Russian Court
April 26, 2021 07:29 GMT
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April 26, 2021 08:53 GMT
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A Russian court has approved a motion by prosecutors to suspend all activities at the offices of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny s team, as well as his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). The activities of the Navalny and FBK headquarters have been immediately suspended. They are screaming out with this move: We are afraid of your activities, we are afraid of your rallies, we are afraid of smart voting, Ivan Zhdanov, the director of the FBK, said in a tweet on April 26.
The post also included a photo of the motion from the prosecutors.
Navalny Exposé Reveals Putin s Hidden Luxuries Ahead Of Protests
April 16, 2021 14:46 GMT
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MOSCOW The team of imprisoned Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has published details of what it alleges is a lavish residence belonging to President Vladimir Putin and kept from public view, the latest salvo in the opposition’s push to boost expected turnout for planned protests and maintain pressure on the Kremlin ahead of parliamentary elections expected this fall.
The video investigation, which had attracted 2.7 million views on YouTube within the first 20 hours of its publication on April 15, alleges that Putin’s fourth official residence, on 150 hectares of land located near Lake Valdai northwest of Moscow, contains sumptuous interiors and includes a large spa center not revealed to Russian taxpayers.