News Source: Taiwan News
| 13 days ago
Russia's Interior Ministry has fired a police officer who decried corruption among his colleagues in a video blog posted on YouTube. Ministry spokesman Oleg Yelnikov says that Alexey Dymovsky was dismissed for misconduct and slandering his colleagues.
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 13 days ago
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia would continue with its economic stimulus program even though the export-dependent economy has shown signs of having emerged from recession. Putin told a group of foreign investors that he was "...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 13 days ago
Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, says he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, recalling with fondness his five years as a KGB agent in Dresden. Mr Putin said in an interview with the NTV channel on Sunday that he had good memories of...
News Source: Russia Today
| 14 days ago
Addressing “honest police officers”, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin personally, he said that it is common practice for his chiefs to force the staff “work on weekends without any monetary reward”, “solve nonexistent crimes” and “jail...
News Source: New Europe
| 14 days ago
The Russian government expressed its surprise on 4 November at the decision by US car giant General Motors to hold onto its European subsidiary Opel and not to sell it. Dmitry Peskov, Interfax quoted a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as...
News Source: Global Voices
| 14 days ago
On November 6, a police officer at the Department of Internal Affairs in Novorossiysk used his personal Web site to address Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and talk about numerous problems police officers face in Russia.