| April 2012 |
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Yulia Tymoshenko, who resigned as prime minister after losing the presidential
election to Viktor Yanukovych in February 2010, is charged with
illegally diverting $425 million meant for environmental projects into
pension funds. A second case includes accusations of spending 100
million euros ($131 million) from government reserves to buy cars that
she later used in her presidential campaign.

Rallies of opposition and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s supporters are held across Russia after the March 4 presidential election.

A Russian bank has denied issuing debit cards branded with the name of Russian opposition blogger Alexei Navalny, refuting a report in GQ magazine on Wednesday, quoting unnamed sources.
Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, who owns the British Evening Standard and The Independent newspapers, is to sell two Russian radio stations to billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev for $14 million, Kommersant business daily reported on Wednesday.
The near certainty of a Greek departure from the eurozone, and doubt about what could happen in the aftermath of this, has seen global stocks take a further battering on Wednesday.
Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 that went down in Indonesia on
Wednesday slammed into a steep mountainside outside the capital Jakarta. Jet disappeared from radar screens
during a demonstration flight near Jakarta on Wednesday. There were 48
people on board, including eight Russian crewmembers and 40 passengers,
mainly Indonesians.

Thirteen people were killed and over 100 injured when two blasts ripped through a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Makhachkala on May 4, 2012.

Former Russian army officer Viktor Bout, 44, is being held in a high security bloc of a New York prison
while he awaits trial on charges including conspiring to supply arms to a
Colombian terrorist group and kill U.S. nationals. The alleged arms
dealer, dubbed "The Merchant of Death," could face anything from 25
years to life in prison if found guilty.

Police ordered anti-Putin activists on Tuesday to abandon the downtown Moscow camp they have been occupying for almost a week.
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Muammar Gaddafi died the death he had predicted – fighting
to the last against his own people, who rose up against him after more
than four decades of authoritarian rule. This does not mean, however,
that the country's woes are finally over. Col. Gaddafi's death is
expected to bring an end to the fighting between pro- and anti-Gadaffi
forces, which began on February 15. But it's less clear if Libya can
now be declared fully liberated.
A special ceremony took place in the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday to mark 40 years since 19-year-old dissident Romas Kalanta publicly set fire to himself in protest against Soviet rule.
Investigators are searching the Moscow office of leading Russian home electronics retailer, Eldorado, in a tax evasion probe, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday.
Russia will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on September 8-9, 2012
Syrian mass protests started in Daraa on the border with Jordan on
March 18. They were prompted by the arrest of a group of school students
who wrote anti-government mottos on walls. The unrest later spread to
other Syrian regions.
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Russia won the bid to host the 2018 World Cup in a tight race against England, Portugal and
Spain (jointly), and Belgium and the Netherlands (jointly).

Russia remains opposed to new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and is not considering them at present, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Monday.