Pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi responded Friday to accusations by a Kommersant executive that Nashi was behind a cyberattack on the newspaper's website in 2008. Pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi responded Friday to accusations by a Kommersant executive that Nashi was behind a cyberattack on the newspaper's website...

A senior Kommersant executive demanded Thursday that the Prosecutor General's Office open a criminal case against officials at the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, accusing the organization of being behind an Internet attack on the...

... soldiers' barracks was kept too low. Ivan Permitin, an 18-year-old private stationed in the Krasnoyarsk region town of Uzhur, died of septic shock Tuesday after being hospitalized, RIA-Novosti reported. Forty-two others in the unit were also hospitalized, Kommersant-FM reported Wednesday. A Defense Ministry spokesperson told Kommersant-FM that the outbreak is due to a virus, citing doctors' evaluations of the afflicted military men. But a Krasnoyarsk region deputy told the radio station that there was...

... Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific were simultaneously studying an asteroid. The atoll is home to four radar arrays built in the 1960s and 1970s and a Raytheon-built prototype from the 1990s, which "can aim at targets in space," Kommersant reported Tuesday, citing publicly available information. Earlier Tuesday, citing "a source in the aerospace industry," Kommersant reported that the probe could have been downed by "external impact" with signals from U.S...

Rostelecom will use its $500 million share buyback program to buy 3.1 percent of its shares from billionaire Suleiman Kerimov at a 9 percent premium to market prices, Kommersant reported Thursday, citing people close to the company. Kerimov bought the stake for 13.7 billion rubles ($435.3 million) and is expected to sell it to Mobitel, Rostelecom's subsidiary, for 167 rubles per share, or a total of 15.2 billion rubles...

American television channel Comedy Central is set to make its debut in the Russian market in April. American television channel Comedy Central is set to make its debut in the Russian market in April, Kommersant reported Tuesday. The U.S. channel already broadcasts in many European markets, including Germany, Spain and Hungary. Earlier this year the channel's owner Viacom announced its intention to launch the channel in Asian and Latin American markets...

Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, Kommersant reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown. Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, Kommersant...

... Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Ryzhkov, say they are in talks with the liberal Yabloko party, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny to create a so-called "megaparty," Kommersant reported Tuesday. "Putin will try to shatter the democratic camp by founding a whole series of parties that will fight among themselves," Nemtsov said. "If five or six centers of attraction appear on the democratic front, …...

... free airtime on state-owned TV channels when campaigning in the mass media begins Feb. 4. Candidates will be given free airtime on channels Rossiya-1, Rossiya-24, Channel One and TV Center-Moscow for commercials, first-person monologues and debates, Kommersant-FM reported Thursday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he will not participate in debates, prompting criticism from his opponents. Last month state-controlled TV outlets Channel One, NTV and Rossiya-1 covered the presidential candidates...

... accused of plotting a botched suicide attack in Moscow and calling for more bombings. Ibragimkhalil Daudov was found dead in a forest Tuesday after being wounded over the weekend in a shootout when police stormed where he was hiding in Dagestan, the Kommersant daily reported. Daudov escaped after the shootout, in which four gunmen were killed, but lost a lot of blood and froze to death, Kommersant quoted security officers as saying. The Anti-Terrorism Committee confirmed Daudov's death and said it...

... its power amid an ongoing turf war with the Investigative Committee. The draft of the legislation would return power to the Prosecutor General's Office to conduct its own investigations and to investigate crimes committed by judges and investigators, Kommersant reported Wednesday, citing sources. The bill would return to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika powers he lost in 2011, when the Investigative Committee was formed. Both agencies have since been engaged in an ugly and long turf war for influence...

If Vladimir Putin wins the presidency in the March 4 election, he should announce that he won't seek a second term, VTB head Andrei Kostin suggested in an article published Monday in Kommersant. If Vladimir Putin wins the presidency in the March 4 election, he should announce that he won't seek a second term, VTB head Andrei Kostin suggested in an article published Monday in Kommersant. Kostin argues that one of Putin's problems...

... but were coerced by their companies. “There is a massive group of people in red jackets handing out leaflets that say ‘USSR 2.0.’ Their leaflets advertize a rally to be held Feb. 23 that is ‘anti-Kremlin’ and ‘anti-Orange.’” 2:11 p.m.: Kommersant is reporting that the pro-Putin rally at Poklonnaya Gora is coming to an end. (They also noted the behavior of some old women there, who are apparently dancing to the sounds of a band called Play Accordian.) Widely different numbers of demonstrators...

... Voyage clients. Ingosstrakh had insured the tour operator for the sum of 100 million rubles ($3.3 million), which should be enough to pay for all the stranded clients, spokesman Vladimir Kleimyonov said at a meeting with the tourism agency Saturday, Kommersant reported . Lanta-Tur Voyage president Lyudmila Puchkova said her company collapsed after Master-Bank refused to continue lending it money, Kommersant said. Yegor Altman, an adviser to the bank's chairman of the board, told The Moscow Times...

... the radio station, demanded a reshuffle. The nine-member body had been staffed by four Gazprom representatives, three members of Ekho Moskvy's newsroom, which controls the other 34 percent of the station, and two independent members. Venediktov told Kommersant that he decided to resign after Gazprom Media insisted on increasing its boardroom members to five, thus leaving the station with a minority of four. Observers have suggested it is no coincidence that the scandal broke at the height of campaigning...

... investor] was able to buy a building at the bottom of the market, sell it and make a healthy profit in a short amount of time," said Darrell Stanaford, CBRE's former managing director for Russia and a longtime Moscow real estate businessman. Last week, Kommersant cited an unnamed source familiar with Lesnaya Plaza's valuation as saying VTB Capital acquired the building for roughly $150 million to $170 million and that its current value is $220 million to $250 million. Since 2009, the real estate market...

... favorite to win the presidency addresses the middle class and calls for "true democracy." Putin's new article, consisting of 4,000 words, is titled "Democracy and the Quality of State." It appeared on the front page of the influential Kommersant daily. According to Putin, in the 1990s the country brought in from the West new democratic models, which soon "were occupied by local and central elites of oligarchs." As a result, Putin says, instead of freedoms the country got...

... rack up 90 percent of the "audience" rating against their liberal opponents. The most sensational part of the correspondence concerns the alleged organization of DDoS attacks on sites that criticize pro-Kremlin movements. After an article in Kommersant painted Nashi's activities in a negative light, Potupchik suggests "making Kommersant's life unbearable: Block their work, and break them physically and psychologically." As a state employee, Potupchik knows this is criminal: "[These...

Mikhail Prokhorov's investment fund Onexim Group has apparently resumed talks on the purchase of a stake in independent web TV channel Dozhd, Kommersant reported Wednesday. (Reuters) Russia exported $13.2 billion in arms to foreign buyers in 2011, while its current stock of orders is worth $40 billion, said Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, Interfax...

The retail network of banks sold by Barclays to a group of investors including Igor Kim in October will have its former name of Expobank restored, Kommersant reported Monday. Barclays bought the Expobank chain in 2008 as the ambitious first step of a Russian expansion program. But the British high-street name subsequently joined the list of foreign banks — including HSBC, Santander, Saxo Bank and...