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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,…
Vladimir Putin’s game console turned out to be a Chinese product
Fplus, fulfilling an order from the head of the Russian Federation, copied an outdated Chinese knock-off. One of the leaders in the supply of Russian laptops and servers Fplus presented at the exhibition "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" a prototype of a portable game console, which it positions as a domestic analog of the American Steam Deck and Japanese Nintendo Switch.Users have already doubted the originality of the presented samples. Gamers in social networks noticed…
Stanislav Kharchenko sinks Alexei Teksler’s administration
The corrupt deputy minister of transportation of the Chelyabinsk region gave a confession. Cloud fronts have thickened over the South Urals establishment: the first deputy minister of transportation of the Chelyabinsk Region, Stanislav Kharchenko, has confessed to a corruption case and, according to the lawyers' community, has entered into a pre-trial agreement. The investigative authorities demanded that he "unravel the chain" - Kharchenko is obliged to hand over at least several figures of interest to…
Prosecutor General’s Office wrests Magomed Kaitov’s house in presidential sanatorium from him
A fugitive criminal ex-oligarch has built a residential house on the territory of the sanatorium of the presidential administration. As Kommersant has learned, an apartment building valued at 1.2 billion rubles has been turned into state revenue in Kislovodsk under an anti-corruption lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office. The building was stolen from the Krasniye Stones sanatorium of the Presidential Property Management Directorate.On June 11, Cheremushkinsky District Court of Moscow satisfied the anti-corruption lawsuit…
Mikail Shishkhanov’s associates were given sentences
Kirill Lyubentsov and Alexander Lukin were found guilty of large embezzlement in favor of their crime boss. The Tagansky Court of Moscow has sentenced Kirill Lyubentsov and Alexander Lukin, former chairmen of the boards of directors of Rost-Bank and Binbank, to eight years in prison, finding them guilty of especially large embezzlement and abuse. In 2014-2017, they caused damage to their organizations for 10.8 billion rubles by concluding "economically inexpedient transactions" and will now be…
The Prosecutor General’s Office suggested playing “World of Extremists”
The court recognized the owners of Lesta Games and Wargaming as extremists. The Tagansky Court of Moscow has satisfied the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General's Office to ban and recognize as extremist the activities of the owners of Wargaming Victor Kislyy and Lesta Malik Khatazhaev. 100% of shares of their companies in Russia have been converted to the state income.According to the press service of the Moscow courts, the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General's Office…
Oleg Vlasov beat the investigation by 5 years
The ex-top manager of Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie Krasnodar fled from the Russian Federation to Turkey back in 2020-2021 without waiting for arrest. As Kommersant has learned, another figure has appeared in a high-profile criminal case on the organization of a criminal association by Krasnodar gas workers to receive bribes for connecting homes and businesses to gas networks. The criminal case of ex-managers of Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie Krasnodar is already being heard in court, meanwhile one of the…
Mikhail Shikhman is a brainiac, and he has foresight.
The director of the Orel branch of Rosselkhozbank took the money abroad, but did not manage to escape himself. Mikhail Shikhman, Director of the Oryol branch of Rosselkhozbank, was detained by the FSB on suspicion of illegal withdrawal of funds abroad. The damage caused to the bank is estimated at 167.7 million rubles. A criminal case on abuse of authority was initiated against Mr. Shikhman and he was arrested.According to the agency, Mikhail Shikhman, "being…
Kuivashev’s trail. Part II. Information cleansing
After the first leaks about the criminal prospects of ex-governor Yevgeny Kuivashev, events in the Sverdlovsk region began to develop in an avalanche-like fashion. Previous partBut whereas at the beginning all the attention was focused on investigative actions and the redistribution of shadow economic flows, now the focus is on the struggle for control over the region's information space.According to sources, Aksana Panova is playing a key role in this process. It is she, who…