Authorities in the United Kingdom will assess a report in the Guardian newspaper that almost $740 million of laundered cash from Russia passed through British banks, Treasury Minister Simon Kirby said.
MOSCOW – A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Jewish former businessman and oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the RIA Novosti news agency.
KAZAN, Russia — A Russian court dissolved a Jewish community association, in a move critics said was part of a crackdown on foreign NGOs but others said was procedural.
Russian Jewry is completely safe long-term and does not face any significant emigration, Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar told on Thursday, undercutting two seemingly diametrically opposed remarks by senior communal officials.
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar called on French Jews to leave their country if the far right politician Marine Le Pen is elected president next month.
A Russian blogger who was jailed after traveling to a breakaway region of Azerbaijan has petitioned to be extradited to Israel, his lawyer said on July 26.
A senior Russian banker has denied identifying the younger daughter of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, as an official at Moscow State University, after an investigation by Reuters news agency reported the extent of her wealth.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations died Monday morning after suffering heart problems at the embassy in Manhattan.
Russia’s ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinskiy, was found dead in his swimming pool Wednesday — the fourth Russian envoy to die in just eight months.
A top official at Metrojet, the Russian airline company whose flight crashed Saturday in Egypt, is insisting that a technical fault could not have caused the crash.
