Dmitry Medvedev backed Vladimir Putin’s burst of enthusiasm for fighting corruption in state companies. In the best case scenario, will find out the outcome of this order only after the 4 March elections. Meanwhile, the fight against corruption, it seems, is going to become a part of presidential candidate Putin’s election campaign rhetoric...

Our investigation focused on several offshore companies with turnover exceeding one billion dollars. The bank transactions we obtained show that money was transferred to the accounts of these offshore companies from Russia, the United States, the UK, New Zealand, China and Ukraine among others. We attribute these links to the fact that criminals from all over the world use the same technologies...

Novaya Gazeta sets forth in its quest for real estate belonging to bureaucrats, parliamentarians, the authorities and businessmen close to them in resort countries. We begin with Montenegro, already ubiquitously known as the Russian VIP resort. We were able to get our hands on a complete state cadastral land record, which indicates both landowners and the real estate built on this land...

Novaya Gazeta learned that those travelling in the Volkswagen were the wife of the interior minister and her friend, a high-ranking employee in the investigation agencies. They were taken to the hospital with minor injuries along with the driver... “There is no criminal case”, say

In June 2011 Acting Chairman of the Federation Council, Alexander Torshin, introduced the “Federal Constitutional Law on Introducing Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of the RF” draft bill in the State Duma. A more appropriate title...

It is difficult for me to write this text, for I am obliged to be tactful and observe the proprieties, though when I first found out about the story, I was not inclined to mince my words. Nonetheless, I will try. The matter up for...

We received a reply from Mr Sechin, Russian deputy prime minister, and Mr Dvorkovich, presidential aide, who received Novaya Gazeta’s inquiry about how they prefer to travel by air, as did other high ranking government officials and state...

Imagine the picture painted by some experts studying corruption: Russia has a shadow budget (also called a black or alternative Russian budget) whence money can be drawn for elections or “under the table” payments to members of the...

Allowable expression In November 2010, the Oktyabrsky District Court in Omsk delivered an unusual verdict on a law suit filed by the chief of IZ-55/3 pretrial detention centre (popularly known as SI-3), Colonel Alexei Shmalts, and Deputy...

Ashot Egiazaryan, central to many of our articles on corruption and crime, a former banker and State Duma Deputy from the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, who is currently residing in the USA, claims to be a victim of the Putin regime...

Who did the prime minister of Russia tickle the ivories for (at a minimum on a grand piano) and sing to? Whose tune did Sharon Stone, Alain Delon, Mickey Rourke, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Kevin Costner, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell...

The mass media and bloggers are actively discussing the next stage of Anna Chapman's political promotion: the achapman.ru website. Back in the summer she was a failed spy; a few months later she was already a TV presenter, a model and an...

Tula region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka was prevented from flying to Dubai by FSB agents, who took him off the plane and delivered him for interrogation to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Investigators were looking...

“The Palace for Putin” on the Black Sea coast, which St Petersburg businessman Sergei Kolesnikov told Novaya Gazeta about in an interview, has been sold. The official owner of the palace was a company belonging to Nikolai Shamalov, a...

The Wildlife Fund states that the Leopard, which, according to the results of the dubious (at least, the President considers it to be such) television voting, has been selected as the Olympic Games mascot, is actually not a Leopard at all,...