Assuming that the tour lasted for two weeks and that the campaigners took two flights a day, spending about four hours in the air, while for the rest of the day the jet was stationed in a heated hangar, the expenditures would total 13.5 million roubles. And this amount includes the jet costs only. There’s no doubt that the total cost of the tour was much higher. Where did the money come from?

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...

A mission from the International Monetary Fund began working in Minsk on Wednesday and on its very first day received an official request for a loan from the Belarusian government and National Bank. The exact size of Belarus’s appetite is...