Topic: Kommersant

Prosecutor Gets Upper Hand

The Prosecutor General's Office has gotten a boost from President Dmitry Medvedev with a bill proposing to increase its power amid an ongoing turf...

Russian tycoon eyes paper to back election bid

(Reuters) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who hopes to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential election next March, is exploring a bid for the influential daily Kommersant to back up his campaign.A source at Onexim, Prokhorov's investment fund, told ...

Russian editor fired after Putin cursed in photo

Please note strong language in paragraph 17.By Maria TsvetkovaMOSCOW (Reuters) - The editor of a prominent Russian news magazine said he had been fired after the weekly printed a photograph featuring an obscene message addressed to Vladimir Putin as part of extensive ...

Soviet scientist denies helping Iran develop atomic bomb

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Soviet scientist has denied being the brains behind Iran's nuclear program, despite U.S. media reports that he helped put Tehran on the threshold of making an atomic bomb, a Russian newspaper said on Thursday.The United Nations ...
Russian billionaire Suleyman Kerimov may be buying up to 6% of Rostelecom's (RTKM. RS) shares, Russian daily Kommersant reported. . . Following a...
Tablet computers with GPS navigation system are to be considered navigation devices, not computers, for customs purposes and will therefore incur a...
OAO Sberbank (SBER. RS) has agreed to pay EUR585 million ($848.1 million) for VBI, the eastern European arm of Austrian lender Oesterreichische...

Sharks attack two people off Russia's Pacific coast

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two people have survived rare shark attacks while swimming in waters off Russia's Pacific coast, the emergency ministry and media said on Thursday.The attacks occurred roughly in the same area within 24 hours of each other. Some experts ...

Russia draws up tit-for-tat U.S. visa bans: report

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has drawn up a list of U.S. officials to be barred from entering the country in response to U.S. visa restrictions imposed on Russian officials over the death of a lawyer, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.If ...

Russian betrayed spies and defected, paper says

0 . A high-ranking intelligence officer betrayed Russia by exposing a secret spy ring operating in the United States until last June and defecting ...