Day: April 17, 2017

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Journalist Oleg Lurie, said that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny illegally received funds to conduct political activities from the former head NK “YUKOS” Michael Khodorkovsky. This is stated in the Lurie blog on LiveJournal. The journalist, in particular, was cited in the post copies of the documents from which it follows that the Trustees of Khodorkovsky handed over to the head of a staff of Navalny Leonid Volkov at least 60 thousand dollars under the guise of payment for the studies on “structure of contemporary Russian society.” In addition to Volkov, in the post, he referred to such participants of the above schemes, as Natalia Suchkova, Maria Baronova and the citizen of Germany Frank Gerhard Reader. According to the journalist, the actions of the team Navalny of receiving money from Khodorkovsky — “in fact, the financing of political activities from abroad, bypassing the established procedure of registration as

Nikita Khrushchev Auction house Christie’s on 20 April will put up for online auction report from the secret speech of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev debunked the cult of Stalin. This is evidenced by information on the website of Christie’s. On the cover in Polish the name of the document “On the personality cult and its consequences” criticism of Joseph Stalin. Output: “Warsaw, March 1956”. In the upper right corner contains a PostScript: “Exclusively for party organizations”. The lot also includes an abridged, and full versions of the report, which was made by Khrushchev at the 20th Communist party Congress on 25 February 1956 in Moscow. Estimated value of these, as noted, a very rare first editions in their original covers is two or three thousand dollars. Khrushchev’s speech at Christie’s is one of the defining documents of the XX century in General and of the cold war era in

Yevgeny Roizman Mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman has declared his intention to run for Governor of Sverdlovsk region. About this he wrote on his page in Facebook on Monday, April 17. “Go to the governors of the Sverdlovsk region. Here I have not lost any one election,” he said. Earlier on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on early termination of powers of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvasheva. A week before that, the President accepted the early resignation of the head of Mordovia Vladimir Volkov and appointed him acting head of the Republic until elections in September this year. Roizman won the mayoral elections in Yekaterinburg in September 2013. He ran from the party of businessman Mikhail Prokhorov “Civic platform”. Before 2011 was another party of the businessman — “the Right thing”, which ceased to exist in March last year. Roizman is one of the founders