The U.S. Embassy has moved to defuse the latest adoption scandal between the United States and Russia after the death of a Russian orphan in Nebraska last week The U.S. Embassy has moved to defuse the latest adoption scandal between the United States and Russia after the death of a Russian orphan in Nebraska...

... public outcry over an advertisement she participated in this spring that praised presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. "These are compromises that I am not ashamed of making," she told The Moscow Times in an interview. "It was just a scandal for the sake of a scandal. The saddest thing is that not one of those journalists who started it tried to really look at the situation fairly." But any lingering cynicism about politics, or the system which she says every citizen has participated...

... official, General Kamil Ganeyev, during the Interior Ministry's "Werewolves With Epithets" anti-corruption campaign in 2003. Ganeyev, who was arrested with six Interior Ministry officials, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2005. In a second scandal, bloggers in 2010 revealed that several regional ministry branches had bought expensive SUVs with money earmarked for firefighting equipment. The revelation couldn't have come at a worse time: deadly wildfires were consuming large swaths of the...

... at auction for about 6.5 million rubles in fall 2010, Kommersant reported. He said he already has been investigated by the police, the prosecutor’s office and the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography because of the scandal. Prombezopasnost didn’t comment to Kommersant about the possibility that the auction would be annulled. Yelena Stryukova, a senior consultant for regional projects with real-estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, told The Moscow Times that property...

... during his inauguration as Moscow governor on Thursday, promised to promote investment and raise the region's $10 billion budget. The former emergency situations minister is replacing Boris Gromov, whose dozen-year tenure was marked by several corruption scandals, including the purported embezzlement of nearly $1 billion by his top finance official, Alexei Kuznetsov — which brought the region to near-bankruptcy, prosecutors said. Kuznetsov fled the country and remains at large. Analysts said that...

... States, there are those who see a direct response by the American president to the Russian head of government, but I personally believe that the official explanations given on this matter are sufficient, and there is no need to start any additional scandals,” Klimov told Interfax. The parliamentarian said that although he accepted Obama’s explanation, the U.S. president “could have taken half a day to visit a neighboring country and to participate in the APEC summit.” Klimov...

... "afraid to let women be in politics" because women are "more emotional" and therefore "they don't always agree with men," making it harder to strike deals. But she was quick to note that few women are involved in corruption scandals. Both Baskakova and Sliska said quotas for women should be introduced. "It is men who define politics toward women, based on their understanding of what women need," Baskakova said. "Although few of them can even choose a proper...

... Governor Artyakov had promised to run in gubernatorial elections, his chances of winning had been slim. Residents have expressed irritation that Artyakov spent most of his time in Moscow, not Samara. While Artyakov's rule was not tarnished by major scandals, according to the St. Petersburg Politics think tank, his reputation was stung when a Communist candidate beat United Russia's choice in the mayoral election in March in Tolyatti, the home of AvtoVAZ. In addition, the Communists garnered more...

... Boris Yeltsin. From his post in the St. Petersburg mayor's office, Putin was appointed deputy chief of Yeltsin's presidential staff in 1997. To this day, Putin has a strong sense of loyalty to his mentor, Sobchak. Putin clearly understands that any scandal involving Ksenia Sobchak will only increase her popularity and the potential financial payoff resulting from her notoriety. And deep in his heart, Putin must understand that the more celebrities like Sobchak and Malakhov leave television in protest...

... example. In several Russian cities, the opposition won mayoral elections. In Astrakhan, where the opposition candidate lost because of widespread voting fraud, the scale of street protests grew tenfold, and the entire country has been stirred by the scandal. Nowadays, opposition leaders from Moscow and elsewhere travel to other cities and join the protests or become election observers. That activity will need to continue. When asked in a recent interview about the fate of the Putin-Medvedev regime...

... private security service market is worth an estimated $7 billion, industry experts said. Part of the market is controlled by the Interior Ministry, whose Okhrana branch provides security to businesses and households. The branch was recently embroiled in a scandal when its founder, Deputy Interior Minister Mikhail Sukhodolsky, was dismissed and an investigation was opened into whether it had bought equipment through companies affiliated with Sukhodolsky’s business partners. Gudkov may be coming under...

... later turned out that city officials combined the signatures of thousands of people against the road with those in support of the project, said Natalya Znamenskaya, an editor of Zhukovskiye Vesti, the only independent newspaper in the city. While the scandal over the signatures forced the city’s first deputy mayor, Boris Aubakirov, to leave his post, authorities were able to remove a designation of the forest as a “monument of nature,” which had been granted in 1982. Znamenskaya...