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Papers attack Russian Lamborghini driver

Swiss police are investigating a crash in which a pensioner was seriously injured when his car was hit by a Lamborghini sports car being driven by a young Russian man who was allegedly racing three others along the banks of Lake Geneva. The driver of ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lamborghini,  Dmitry Rogozin

A very diplomatic blog: British ambassadors worldwide tell (nearly) all on the web

For our man in Ukraine, it was an uncomfortable moment. Arriving back at the embassy in Kiev, Britain's ambassador, Leigh Turner, discovered a troupe of angry Ukrainian folk dancers. The dancers were protesting about the fact that they had been refused ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: British Council,  David Miliband,  John Duncan,  Twitter Inc

Russian jail officials 'should be charged' over lawyer's death

Friends and colleagues of a Russian lawyer who died in custody in Moscow after his pleas for medical treatment were refused have called for criminal charges to be brought against the prison authorities. Sergey Magnitsky died on Monday in a ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hermitage Capital Management

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wants to cut 11 time zones

Dmitry Medvedev gave his address to Russia’s elite at the Kremlin, including Vladimir Putin, who is seen as pulling all the strings. Photograph: Konstantin Zavrazhin/Getty Images He is frequently derided as someone with no real power. But today Dmitry ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dmitry Medvedev,  Vladimir Putin,  David Clark,  Hugo Chávez,  Robin Cook

Russian cop sacked for blog graft exposé

A Russian police officer has been sacked after exposing corruption among his senior colleagues in an audacious homemade video blog posted on YouTube. In a case that has prompted public debate inside the country about its scandal-prone police force, ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vladimir Putin

Critic of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov abducted in Moscow

A Russian human rights group today said that gunmen loyal to Chechnya's pro-Kremlin president had abducted a human rights activist in Moscow and flown him to Chechnya. Chechen security officials grabbed Arbi Khachukayev this afternoon and then bundled ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anna Politkovskaya

Russian far-right activists arrested for murder of journalist and lawyer

Alleged killer Eugenia Khasis, in a black hood, is led by police to court in Moscow. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters Investigators today said they had solved one of Russia's most notorious killings and had arrested two far-right activists for the ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stanislav Markelov,  Anastasia Baburova,  Dmitry Medvedev

Former KGB agent shot dead in Moscow

Investigators at the scene of the shooting of Shabtai von Kalmanovic in Moscow. Photograph: Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty Images Detectives in Russia are investigating the murder of a former KGB agent who was gunned down in Moscow yesterday, in the latest ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vladimir Putin,  Michael Jackson,  Tom Jones,  Liza Minnelli

Miliband has Lugovoi extradition plea rejected

Alexander Litvinenko on his death bed in 2006. Photograph: Getty Andrei Lugovoi, who is accused by British prosecutors of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko with the radioactive element polonium. Photograph: Sergei Chirikov/EPA Russia has ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alexander Litvinenko,  Environmental Protection Agency,  David Miliband,  Sergei Lavrov,  Dmitry Medvedev

Russia snubs extradition request

The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov (left) talks to Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, after talks in Moscow. Photograph: Sergei Chirikov/EPA Russia snubbed the latest British request for the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, the prime ...

From LUKE HARDING, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miliband,  Sergei Lavrov,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Environmental Protection Agency,  Alexander Litvinenko

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