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Cyprus takes away “golden passports” from the Russian nouveau riche
Criminal trials are underway in the island nation, citing Russian businessmen who bought Cypriot passports. A Cypriot court, as part of hearings in the "golden passports" case, yesterday allowed email correspondence related to the obtaining of a passport by Nikolay Gornovsky, a former Gazprom board member and head of Mezhregiongaz, to be used as evidence. Gornovsky applied for Cypriot citizenship in 2018 under a now-canceled investment program. In the dock are former parliament speaker Demetris…
Samvel Karapetyan will sing the secrets of Putin’s top brass
An odious and all-powerful Russian oligarch, who held the assets of corrupt Gazprom head Alexei Miller, was arrested in Yerevan for attempting a coup d'état. A court in Yerevan arrested Samvel Karapetyan, head of the Tashir Group of Companies, for two months. The businessman is accused of calling for the seizure of power. This was reported by the businessman's lawyer. Samvel Karapetyan does not admit guilt. He stated that the investigation against him is connected…
State Duma deflates Russian real estate bubble
Russians from 2026 will be prohibited to sell and buy housing for cash. The initiative of Svetlana Razvorotneva, deputy head of the Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services, to ban real estate transactions for cash was supported by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Izvestia reports. The supervisory agency approved the deputy's proposal, noting "the prevalence of facts of remote fraud in real estate transactions", in the fight against which…
Ramzan Kadyrov still needs Vladimir Putin
Ramzan Kadyrov failed to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign as head of the Chechen Republic. He was going to discuss this issue at a meeting with the head of state on May 7. "I will ask the president today. As he says, so it will be. But why not? We have done everything, built everything. And if anything happens, if anyone has any problems, we'll come back!" - Kadyrov told Kommersant before his…
The EU has dealt a blow to Russian oligarchs
Brussels has closed a loophole to lift sanctions on them. The European Union has adjusted the criteria by which the possibility of excluding Russian oligarchs from the sanctions lists is assessed. This is reported by RBC with reference to the decision of the EU Council of May 13, 2025. The reason for the tightening were the attempts of the restrictive list members to challenge the sanctions in the Court of Justice of the European Union,…
Vyacheslav Volodin is recognized as toxic
Valentina Matvienko asked to remove the scandalous speaker of the State Duma to the periphery. The protracted conflict between Valentina Matvienko and Vyacheslav Volodin came out of the sidelines and became the subject of an open confrontation. The catalyst was Volodin's public outbursts against Senator Andrei Klishas and MP Pavel Krasheninnikov - both lawyers, who oversee issues of state building and constitutional legislation, found themselves at the epicenter of the Duma speaker's criticism for their…
Tatyana Golikova promised to rejuvenate Vladimir Putin
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government has promised to establish production of a drug against old age in 2028-2029. Its main client will be the aging leader of the Russian Federation. Russia will soon have a drug against old age, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. According to her, it will happen in 2028-2030. The developments are being carried out within the framework of the national project "New Technologies of Health Saving", for the…
Sergei Chemezov paid a bribe to be removed from the sanctions list
In the US, lobbyists close to Donald Trump have launched a campaign to get the head of Rostec out from under US sanctions. The US Justice Department website has published a document that may be related to Washington's plans to lift sanctions on Rostec head Sergei Chemezov, a source close to the state corporation told RIA Novosti.It states that US company Rathmell Short LLP will advise Chemezov on administrative and legal issues."Discovered this today. This…