| 05/05/2018 10:31 | âDown with the tsarâ: Russian authorities ban Navalny supporter protest ahead of Putin's inauguration ( Open Democracy )
âDown with the tsarâ: Russian authorities ban Navalny supporter protest ahead of Putin's inauguration. OVD-Info 4 May 2018. Organisers across the country have ... In Tomsk region, two participants in the Left Bloc are under investigation. One of the two was put in a car on top of a hot heater by police ... |
| 05/02/2018 02:30 | Tomsk resident tortured for posting songs about police on VK ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
A police car approached the Levy Blok Tomsk HQ. A number of plain cloth people wearing masks got out of it. They did not introduce themselves. They then put all activists on the ground and took them to a police station, according to Mediazona. They put 28-year-old activist Maksim Shulgin in a ... |
| 04/26/2018 18:30 | Investigative Committee initiates case against OMON officers who beat foreigners in Tomsk ... ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
The Investigative Committee for Tomsk initiated a criminal case on the abuse of office with the use of violence (clause âaâ of part 3 of Art. 286 of the Russian Criminal Code) after a few foreigners were beaten in temporary detention center for foreign citizens by OMON soldiers, the press service of the ... |
| 04/26/2018 18:30 | Overlooked No More: Maria Bochkareva, Who Led Women Into Battle in WWI ( New York Times )
Maria Bochkareva, a pugnacious, formidable and semiliterate peasant who, in World War I, became one of Russia's first female army officers and commanded an all-women unit into battle on the Eastern Front, died ... She was born into a poor family in July 1889 and raised in the Siberian town of Tomsk. |
| 04/21/2018 10:25 | Who Dies in Russia from Falling out a Window ( Polygraph.info )
Maksim Borodin, a 32-year-old investigative reporter, died in the Russian industrial city of Ekaterinburg on April 15. .... 2008 after falling from a window on the fifth floor of the building of the local branch of the Interior Ministry's Department for Combating Economic Crimes (UBEP) in the city of Tomsk. |
| 04/18/2018 02:30 | Ex-Head of Tomsk Interior Ministry comes under investigation (https://en.crimerussia.com/)
OMON fighters beat immigrants in reception centre - https://en.crimerussia.com/ |
| 04/17/2018 10:35 | Siberian high-ranking police officer suspected of corruption and fraud ( RAPSI )
MOSCOW, April 16 (RAPSI) â Former head of Russia's Tomsk Regional Interior Ministry Directorate is suspected of fraud and taking a large-scale bribe, the press-service of the regional Investigative Committee has stated. Investigators believe that in 2011-2014 the defendant received a bribe estimated ... |
| 04/11/2018 10:35 | Tomsk ex-policeman handed down 5 years for bribe in the form of a closet ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
The former Deputy Head of the anti-cybercrime department of the Tomsk Department of the Interior received five years in prison for bribes. This was reported by the Investigative Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Tomsk region. The investigation found that the ex-Deputy Head of ... |
| 03/29/2018 17:25 | Kemerovo bids final farewell to fire tragedy victims, suspects arrested ( TASS )
Forensic studies may take from four to five months, chief of Russia's Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said. As of now, twenty-seven fire victims have been identified, three of them were taken to Tomsk, and one - to Krasnoyarsk. Forensic studies of the bodies of those who died during Sunday's ... |
| 03/27/2018 16:45 | Russia blaze death toll rises as safety breaches identified ( Financial Times )
He thanked Mr Putin for âfinding the timeâ to call him to express condolences. Russian media said the mall's complicated ownership structure led to KDV Group, a confectionery company based in nearby Tomsk. KDV Group's owner Denis Shtengelov, a beer snacks baron, told Russian media he was ... |
| 03/27/2018 00:40 | Berdsk police Head's arrest prolonged out of ties with criminals ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
... of members of the Grigoriev's (aka Grinya) criminal group, and therefore he was transferred to ââthe Novosibirsk region, and then to the Tomsk region. ... According to investigative agencies, in April 2017, the Head of the Russian Interior Ministry's department for Berdsk together with his daughter ... |
| 03/14/2018 22:00 | Taking On Putin: Intimidated and tailed by the Kremlin's men ( The Times )
The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury would not surprise the people who dare to take on Putin in Russia. For them, political violence .... footage of me in Russia. They falsely accused me of cobbling together fake news with students in Tomsk and Cossacks in the Don basin. |
| 03/14/2018 07:00 | How The Kremlin Silences Youth Protests Ahead Of Elections ( Worldcrunch )
... part of everyday life in Russia. Almost daily, the human rights platform OVD-Info documents new reprisals against Navalny's mostly young followers and collaborators. Nationwide, house searches are taking place, and people continue to be arrested: sentences of 20 days or 30 days. In Tomsk, Siberia ... |
| 02/26/2018 20:00 | Rallies In Russian Cities Commemorate Nemtsov ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
Rallies were held across Russia on February 25 to commemorate slain Kremlin critic and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov ahead of the third anniversary of his murder. In Tomsk, people laid flowers to Nemtsov's photo displayed at a local memorial "to the victims of the Bolshevik terror. |
| 02/24/2018 13:00 | Russian millennials look to their future: 'If we don't do anything now, we will keep living like our ... ( Los Angeles Times )
The millennial generation is inheriting a Russia in decline. Low global oil prices and Western sanctions aimed at punishing the Kremlin's illegal annexation of Crimea have hurt the economy. Global oil consumption, which feeds Russia's economy, is expected to continue its downward trajectory, and so is ... |
| 02/21/2018 11:10 | Court confiscates tax officer's apartment of unknown origin ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
The Sovetsky District Court of Tomsk grants the suit of city prosecutor Viktor Fedotov over the confiscation of an apartment worth about 3 million rubles from an official of the Federal Tax Service city inspectorate, who bought it with money of unknown origin. This was reported by the press service of the ... |
| 02/19/2018 11:10 | How Vladimir Putin mastered the cyber disinformation war ( Financial Times )
Despite the Kremlin's best efforts, western governments refused to shut them down. Then, in January 2002, a popular Chechen website went dark. It had been attacked by hackers, students in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The local branch of the FSB, the Russian secret police, enthusiastically supported the ... |
| 02/15/2018 03:15 | Russian Police Summon Priests to Exorcise 'Poltergeist' (The Siberian Times)
Police seeks help from church on a 'poltergeist' case in remote corner of Tomsk region - The Siberian Times |
| 02/13/2018 03:15 | One Day After Deadly Moscow Plane Crash, Russian Helicopter Crash Kills 2 ( The Moscow Times )
Two crew members of the Mi-8 transport helicopter died in Monday's crash-landing in a remote part of the Russian region of Tomsk, the regional administration said in an online statement. The helicopter, belonging to a local private airline, crash-landed while transporting a patient, the administration said ... |
| 02/13/2018 03:15 | Sign Of The Times? Putin Billboards 'Under Guard' By Off-Duty Police ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
Adding to photos and eyewitness evidence from around Russia of such round-the-clock police surveillance, the officer says none of the other seven candidates' billboards is getting such treatment ahead of the March 18 election, which is expected to award Putin a fourth term in the Kremlin. Last week ... |
