Kremlin Says Convinced Of US Attempts To Wiretap Putin.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a colleague of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was shot to death 2 years ago outside the walls of the Kremlin, has left Russia after a second ‘poisoning.’ Kara-Murza laps into a coma a month ago and recently recovered enough to travel. The attack two years ago nearly…
Russia May Send Snowden To US As A Gift To Trump…developing U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a “gift” to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a “spy” and a “traitor” who deserves to be executed. That’s according…
Alexey Kudrin, former Russian finance minister and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the arrest of a high level economic minister is a sea change in Russian politics. “Bringing on charges with bribery against a person in the rank of a minister is a dramatic event for Russia that…
Russia spent 18.4 percent of its reserve fund in a single month to plug deficits in the federal budget, Finance Ministry figures released Tuesday have revealed. The country’s reserve fund fell from $38.18 billion to $32.2 billion during the course of August 2016, shrinking to just over a third of…
Muscovites are like deer in the headlights as the price of crude oil heads towards a bottom as low as $15 a barrel. The great hydrocarbon collapse is starting to hit the inhabitants of the capital of the Russian Federation hard. Moscow is no longer the adult, fairytale, playground for…