Tag Archives: Alexander Lebedev

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 8, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: May 8, 2013

TODAY: Russia and U.S. put differences aside to discuss Syria; agree on calling international conference on the problem state; Kerry meets rights activists; three more added to foreign agent list. Putin attacks cabinet performance; corruption looms over Russia’s economy; Alexander Lebedev granted London visit; prison break. Following talks during which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 5, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: February 5, 2013

TODAY: Kremlin hires Goldman Sachs to boost investment image; Gozman accuses Investigative Committee of involvement in a vendetta against Navanly; Biden to work with Lavrov on Syrian chemical weapons? Pessimistic outlook for the U.S.-Russia reset; Georgian imports to resume; Sochi mobsters, Internet censorship, Stalingrad, Putin’s birth-rate boost plan. The Kremlin has hired Goldman Sachs for [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 4, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: February 4, 2013

TODAY: Opposition called for questioning in Navalny case; Putin says Church should have more control; Stalingrad celebrations; Kremlin’s rights council blames police for May violence; St Petersburg hospital protest; Biden comments on U.S.-Russia differences; Lavrov meets Syrian opposition leader; Lebedev’s airline loses license; Filin says he knows his attacker. Prominent opposition figures including Nikita Belykh [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 24, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: January 24, 2013

TODAY: Medvedev defends Russia at Davos; gasoline prices on the rise; Duma passes bill to abolish direct elections for governors; Gref wants foreign bank account rule exemption; Lebedev compares trial to witch huntgs; sexuality checking in the army; Alyokhina complains of death threats; Udaltsov’s complaint upheld; orphans. Speaking in Davos at the World Economic Forum [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 26, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 26, 2012

TODAY: Chelyabinsk prison demonstration; Internet providers under censorship pressures; U.N. report slams Russia over rights failures; ships sent to Gaza; former official charged with fraud; Lebedev fears prison, contracted killing; Medvedev critiques France’s Syria position. Over 250 inmates at the prison in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk have been on strike since the weekend, demanding more relaxed conditions [...]

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Lebedev Facing Jail

By Citizen M | Published: September 27, 2012

After announcing just yesterday that he feared imminent political prosecution, billionaire Kremlin critic Alexander Lebedev has been charged with ‘hooliganism motivated by political hatred’ over his role in a fistfight on television last year.  The Moscow Times reports that ‘Lebedev punched [real estate mogul Sergei] Polonsky several times in the face over a perceived slight [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept 27, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: September 27, 2012

TODAY: Alexander Lebedev charged with hooliganism; AAR will make cash offer for TNK-BP stake; Nashi offers Pussy Riot bounty; Udaltsov arrest illegal; Romney under fire for Russian investments; Putin re-iterates Syria position; Medvedev negotiates with President over Rosneftegaz holdings. Billionaire businessman Alexander Lebedev has been charged with public disorder and battery and faces up to [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept 26, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: September 26, 2012

TODAY: Russia hits back at E.U. plans to award Pussy Riot, lawmakers push for harsher sentences against blasphemy; Kazan policemen sentenced over death of detainee; Putin calls for tougher penalties for drunk drivers; Kremlin boosts fund for direct investment; Gazprom says E.U. has ulterior motives in pricing row; Lebedev fears jail. The Foreign Ministry have [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 30, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: August 30, 2012

TODAY: Lebedev to abandon Russian business interests; Gudkov being targeted for anti-Putinism? Russia wins Venice Biennale; Gazprom puts Shtokman on hold; domestic carmakers reassured by new import duties; Georgian troops clash with Dagestan militants; penal colonies; volleyball coach found dead. Alexander Lebedev is planning to give up his businesses in Russia due to pressure from [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – August 6, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: August 6, 2012

TODAY: Defence denied 10 witnesses in Pussy Riot trial; Seliger camp looks to diversify; Alexander Lebedev contemplates business exit from Russia. Worrying poverty statistics; IMF sees changes needed to Russia’s economic model; Syria seeks loan from Moscow ‘Even in Soviet times, in Stalin’s times, the courts were more honest than this one’: the words of [...]

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