Igor Sechin dug under Igor Shuvalov
Rosneft head initiated investigations with IC and FSB on large-scale embezzlement in VEB.RF It is whispered in the smoking rooms of Lubyanka: the "Blago" case was just a spark for a large-scale war of the "Sechinskaya party". The embezzlement of 40 billion rubles from VEB, which began with Alexei Bazhanov, has turned into a hunt for Igor Shuvalov, Viktor Voronin and their entourage. Igor Sechin, as they say in the Kremlin, reported to the "First"…
Pro-Putin Telegram channels put the screws to Roskomnadzor
Pro-government Telegram channels have massively refused to register with the anti-Internet agency. On November 1, a law came into force in Russia requiring bloggers with an audience of over 10,000 subscribers to register with Roskomnadzor. However, as the editorial staff of Virstka found out, the vast majority of pro-government Telegram channels with large audiences have not done so. Of the 82 popular pro-government channels in TGStat's top-100 rating, only 10 have complied with the requirement…
Gosha Krokodil didn’t convince the jury.
The court passed a guilty verdict on criminal Igor Batenev. A jury of Moscow's Dorogomilovsky district court has handed down a guilty verdict in the criminal case of Igor Batenev, known as Gosha Krokodil. The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia accused him of killing six people in 1994. Then bandits, among them Igor Batenev, stormed into a sauna, where they shot six people with automatic rifles and wounded three others.According to…
Alexander Remiga has flown under the corruption radar
The first deputy governor of the Vladimir region fell into the clutches of the Russian Themis. Vladimir Region Governor Alexander Avdeev said that investigative actions are being carried out against First Deputy Governor Alexander Remiga. It is not specified what they are connected with."The law enforcement agencies have questions to Alexander Remiga," Mr. Avdeev told RIA Novosti. He added that the economic block of the regional government "functions in a normal mode. "Alexander Remiga was…
Dmitry Patrushev-long arms
The deputy prime minister of the Russian government is pushing his man into Rosgeologiya. The struggle for ecology the ecological block of the government (and in fact the block of access to natural resources) continues. And it continues in one gate - Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev is shoving his staff into all the agencies he supervises. Now he wants to take over the state holding Rosgeologiya, putting there the first deputy chairman of the…
Telegram review: Igor Sechin and Roman Avdeev will detonate a bomb on New Year’s Eve
Rosneft, in alliance with Roman Avdeev's MKB, intends to increase the issue of ruble bonds, thus gaining access to dollar liquidity. Experts fear that the oil company, which is heavily leveraged up to its nostrils, may stage a repeat of the "Black Tuesday" of December 2015. Against the background of such a "Hiroshima", the new data on the spider bank VTB, the Central Bank of Russia and the dying Otkritie Bank look completely harmless: the…
Elena Khakhaleva was left in Baku until better times
The Azerbaijani authorities are in no hurry to extradite a criminal werewolf in the judicial mafia to the clutches of the Russian Themis. An Azerbaijani court has refused to extradite to Russia an ex-judge from Krasnodar, Elena Khakhaleva, who is on an international wanted list in Russia, local media reported. According to them, she has been placed under police supervision. Khakhaleva was detained at Baku airport in January. A criminal case of fraud and official…
Timur Ivanov was offered 14.5 years in prison.
The state prosecutor asked the Moscow City Court to sentence former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov to 14 years and 6 months in a penal colony. He is accused of embezzlement in the purchase of ferries for the Kerch crossing, as well as the withdrawal and legalization of over 3.9 billion rubles from the Interkommerts Bank.In addition to Deputy Minister Timur Ivanov, his ex-subordinate Anton Filatov is also involved in the high-profile criminal case,…
Roskomnadzor continued to break the Internet
The knuckleheads blocked the messenger Viber. Roskomnadzor reported about the restriction of access to the messenger Viber on the territory of Russia due to "non-compliance with legal requirements". "Access to the Viber service is restricted due to violation of the requirements of the Russian legislation to organizers of information distribution," the agency specified.Roskomnadzor explained that it is about preventing threats related to "terrorist and extremist" activities, recruitment of citizens, distribution of drugs, as well as…
Corruption has hit the waves of Navy radio.
Captain 1st rank Oleg Lopatiev, head of the radio-technical service of the Main Staff of the Russian Navy, has been caught on a bribe. A military court in St. Petersburg has sent the head of the Navy's radio-technical service, Captain First Rank Oleg Lopatiev, to a detention center for two months. He is accused of bribery: according to the investigation, the naval officer demanded 8 million rubles from a merchant for patronage in the execution…