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Russia to detail new charges against jailed tycoon
Prosecutors on Tuesday were to present new charges against Russia’s former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The route of riches in Putin’s Moscow
When Vladimir Putin drives to work every morning from his presidential bungalow he doesn’t pass the poor, the needy or the hungry. Instead, he passes Gucci, Armani and Prada. In…
Russia says it will move Aids prisoner to hospital
Russia’s prison service bowed to international pressure on Thursday by saying it would transfer Vasily Alexanian, an inmate gravely ill with HIV/Aids, to a specialist clinic. A…
Russian court refuses to release sick oil boss
A Russian court refused bail on Wednesday to a jailed oil executive who is gravely ill with HIV/Aids, the latest ruling in a case that has put Russia in breach of an order from…
Another Putin opponent may have fled to London
Relations between Russia and Britain were facing fresh turbulence on Wednesday after a billionaire oligarch wanted by the Kremlin for tax evasion was reported to have escaped to…