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Ruslan Shaveddinov
Ruslan Shaveddinov (, born 22 July 1995) is a Russian political activist, investigative journalist, and YouTube-blogger. He is best known as a project manager of Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and press secretary of Navalny's presidential campaign in 2018. Biography Ruslan Shaveddinov was born on 22 July 1995 in Liski, Voronezh Region. He graduated from the with a specialization in human rights. In 2013 Shaveddinov joined Alexei Navalny's mayoral campaign as a volunteer and later joined the staff of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation. At the same time, he participated in protests in support of the Pussy riot feminist art group, whose main participants had been imprisoned a year before for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. In 2014 with colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Shaveddinov investigated Vyacheslav Volodin's and Sergey Neverov's dachas. During the filming, he was beaten up by private security guards and held in content by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liski, Voronezh Oblast
Liski (russian: Ли́ски) is a town and the administrative center of Liskinsky District in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: History Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka () in 1571 and renamed Svoboda () in 1943, and after a period again as Liski. It was renamed Georgiu-Dezh () in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again in 1990.''Post-Soviet Geography, Volumul 34'', V.H. Winston & Son, 1993, p. 648''The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Volume 43, Issues 1-16'', American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1991, p. 31''The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia (10 v.)'', Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1983, p. 490Lewis H. Siegelbaum, ''Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile'', Cornell University Press, 2008, p. 82 Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Liski serves as the administrative center of Liskinsky District.Law #87-OZ As an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Alburov
Georgy Alburov (, born October 9, 1989, Ufa, USSR) is a Russian political and social activist, journalist, and blogger. Up to 2021, together with Maria Pevchikh, he was a head of the investigation department at the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Alexey Navalny in 2011. At the time when Alburov headed the department, the FBK released the investigative films " Chaika" (2015) and " He Is Not Dimon to You" (2017). Biography Georgy Alburov was born on October 9, 1989, in Ufa. In 2007, he moved to Moscow to study political science at the Higher School of Economics. He began participating in various political actions and protests in 2008. In 2009, he was present at the civic protests known as Strategy-31, advocating for people's right to peaceful assembly in Russia. In 2011, Alburov met Alexei Navalny for the first time at the «Anti-Seliger» alternative political forum, they became more familiar later that year, when Navalny was sued for defamation by entrepreneur Vladle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Money Laundering
Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions with varying definitions. It is usually a key operation of organized crime. In US law, money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions to conceal the identity, source, or destination of illegally gained money. In UK law the common law definition is wider. The act is defined as "taking any action with property of any form which is either wholly or in part the proceeds of a crime that will disguise the fact that that property is the proceeds of a crime or obscure the beneficial ownership of said property". In the past, the term "money laundering" was applied only to financial transactions related to organized crime. Today its definition is often expanded by government and international regulators such as the US Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017–2018 Russian Protests
The 2017–2018 Russian protests were a long series of countrywide street protest actions and demonstrations in the Russian Federation, which were primarily concerned with suppressing corruption in the Russian government (from 26 March 2017 through spring 2018) and abandoning the planned retirement age hike (from 14 June 2018 through the end of 2018). The anti-corruption protests began in March 2017 but were joined by and overlapped the 2018 Russian pension protests. The anti-corruption protests were primarily led by Alexey Navalny, who was joined by well-known participants such as the Libertarian Party, Open Russia, and Artpodgotovka. They occurred as a result of the Russian financial crisis (2014–2016) aftermath, although they had their root in the corruption at the different levels up to the highest echelons of the Russian power. The protests and demonstrations against corruption in the Russian government began in March 2017 after the release of the investigative film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheremetyevo International Airport
Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport ( rus, links=no, Международный аэропорт Шереметьево имени А. С. Пушкина, p=ʂɨrʲɪˈmʲetʲjɪvə ''Mezhdunarodny aeroport Sheremetyevo imeni A. S. Pushkina'') is one of four international airports that serve the city of Moscow. It is the busiest airport in Russia, as well as the second-busiest airport in Europe. Originally built as a military airbase, Sheremetyevo was converted into a civilian airport in 1959. The airport was originally named after a nearby village, and a 2019 contest extended the name to include the name of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The airport comprises six terminals: four international terminals (one under construction), one domestic terminal, and one private aviation terminal. It is located northwest of central Moscow, in the city of Lobnya, Moscow Oblast. In 2017, the airport handled about 40.1 million passengers and 308,090 aircraft mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and secretary of the Security Council of Russia, before being appointed as prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin became Acting President of Russia and, less than four months later, was elected outright to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004. As he was constitut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Kartapolov
Andrey Valeryevich Kartapolov (russian: Андрей Валериевич Картаполов; born 9 November 1963) is a Russian politician and former army officer of the Russian Army. From 30 July 2018 to October 2021 he served as Deputy Defence Minister, and headed the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces. He had commanded the Western Military District from 2015 to 2016, and again from 2017 to 2018. Kartapolov has held the rank of colonel general since 2015. He is currently a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma, elected on 19 September 2021. Biography Andrey Kartapolov was born in Weimar, East Germany, on 9 November 1963. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in 1985, the Frunze Military Academy in 1993, and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in 2007. Kartapolov rose from platoon commander to commander of a motorized rifle divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Russian Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Russia from 17 to 19 September 2021. At stake were 450 seats in the 8th convocation of the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the elections, United Russia was the ruling party after winning the 2016 elections with 343 of the 450 seats, and retaining a supermajority. In March 2020, it was proposed to hold a snap election in September 2020 due to proposed constitutional reforms, but this idea was abandoned. On 18 June 2021 Vladimir Putin signed a decree calling the election for 19 September the same year. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, voting in the election lasted for three days, from 17 to 19 September. Final turnout was reported to be 51.72%. Fifteen political parties applied for participation, 14 of which were guaranteed automatic access to the ballots, and one unsuccessfully attempted to be included in the ballot by collecting voters' signatures. Half, or 225 seats, of the State Duma were elected th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Yarmysh
Kira Aleksandrovna Yarmysh (, ; born October 11, 1989) is a Russian public figure and writer. She is best known as the press secretary and assistant of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the author of the 2020 novel "Incredible Incidents in Women's Cell No. 3" (). Biography Kira Yarmysh was born in Rostov-on-Don on October 11, 1989 into a Jewish family. In 2007, she entered the of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) without exams, having won the Olympiad. After graduation, she worked in the press services of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and Utair airline. In 2013, she took part in the election campaign of Alexei Navalny, who ran for mayor of Moscow. In August 2014, she became the press secretary of Navalny and the press secretary of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). Navalny wrote in this regard: "It was important for us that the press sec had a strange surname." In 2017, Yarmysh was co-host of several editions of the Navalny 20:18 prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Khorkina
Svetlana Vasilyevna Khorkina (russian: Светлана Васильевна Хоркина; born 19 January 1979) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. During her career, Khorkina won seven Olympic medals and twenty World Championship medals. Over time, she medaled in every event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was also the first gymnast to win three all-around titles at the World Championships and only the second female artistic gymnast ever, after Nadia Comăneci, to win three European All-Around titles. Khorkina is regarded as one of the most successful female gymnasts of all time. At the opening ceremony of the 2019 Winter Universiade she lit the fire, together with bandy player Sergey Lomanov. Senior career 1994–1996 In April 1994, Khorkina competed at the World Championships in Brisbane, Australia. She placed ninth in the all around with a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Nemov
Alexei Yurievich Nemov (russian: link=no, Алексей Юрьевич Немов; born 28 May 1976 in Barashevo, Mordovia) is a former artistic gymnast from Russia. Nemov is most celebrated gymnasts of all time. During his career, he won five world championships, three European championships and twelve Olympic medals. Early life Alexei Nemov grew up in Tolyatti on the Volga River. His father left him and his mother when Nemov was just a baby, and Nemov has never seen him since. Alexei started gymnastics at age five. Gymnastics career Nemov made his debut at the 1993 World Championships at the age of sixteen, placing fifth in the floor event. The following year, he stamped himself as a true all-around contender, winning his qualifying session at the Worlds. He later faltered and dropped to twelfth overall. He won his first major all-around title at the Goodwill Games in Saint-Petersburg, beating his second-place teammate and World Silver Medalist Aleksei Voropaev by over on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (, also , ; rus, Но́вая Земля́, p=ˈnovəjə zʲɪmˈlʲa, ) is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island, considered the easternmost point of Europe. To Novaya Zemlya's west lies the Barents Sea and to the east is the Kara Sea. Novaya Zemlya consists of two main islands, the northern Severny Island and the southern Yuzhny Island, which are separated by the Matochkin Strait. Administratively, it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya District, one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.Law #65-5-OZ Municipally, it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya Urban Okrug.Law #258-vneoch.-OZ The population of Novaya Zemlya as of the 2010 Census was about 2,429, of whom 1,972 resided in Belushya Guba, an urban settlement that is the administrative center of Novaya Zemlya District. The indigenous population (from 1872 to the 1950s when it was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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