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British politicians accuse Theresa May of turning a "blind eye to President Putin's kleptocrats". A parliamentary committee has accused the government of empty rhetoric after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

We are facing a discrediting campaign, claim People in need. Russian television station connects them with espionage. The Czech humanitarian organization People in need serve to foreign secret services, claims Russian television station TV Centr. The TV station will broadcast a documentary movie accusing organization of espionage and corruption in the Ukrainian Donbass, which is controlled by Russian forces. The Czech organization refuses the charges as a discrediting campaign and as an effort of Russian forces to get them out of their region. Russian political scientist Ivan Preobraženskij said, according to his opinion, that the news report is created for order. Similar reports are usually ordered from high ranking official. Requested goal is to compromise some particular people or organizations. In the case of foreigners and opposition activists is the goal to get them out of the region, which is controlled by Russia, he means.

After Russian hackers had posted confidential documents of the World Anti-Doping Agency two days ago, they have released new data today. 25 athletes are affected.

Minister of Economic development of Russia Aleksej Uliakajv has been detained during an operation carried by FSB upon allegations of having asked and received a bribe amounting to 2 million US dollars. The bribe is allegedly related to a transaction of oil company „Rosneft“ – bribe was allegedly given for permission of acquisition of government controlled oil company „Bashneft“.

Russian Minister of Economics arrested for bribery allegation: he is alleged of accepting bribes of two million US dollar (1.85 million euro) and having agreed the partial privatization of oil company Bashneft in return.

The procedure is unprecedented: secret service employees have arrested the current Russian minister of economic affairs. Alexei Uljukaev is accused of accepting bribes in millions.

Russia's economy minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, has been detained on suspicion of taking a bribe to approve an oil deal; he's the most senior official to be arrested in the Putin era. "This is about Extortion of a bribe from Rosneft representatives accompanied by threats," Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the Investigative Committee, told RIA Novosti news agency. "Ulyukayev was caught red-handed as he received a bribe," she said.

U.S. regulators are expanding their probe into Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE)(DB.N) as a Money Laundering investigation of a Moscow unit has widened into possible sanctions violations, the Financial Times reported, citing sources.

The main Czech Court in Prague approved an extradition of Alexander Alexandrovich Nikolaev, former high-ranking state official, to the russian justice. The final decision is now on the Czech Ministr of Justice, Robert Pelikán. The former boss of the Federal state budget is in the Russia accused of a conspiracy and a fraud, which damaged state assets in a value of ten millions rubles. He was hiding in the Czech Republic until January this year, when he was arrested by czech officers based on the international arrest warrant. According to him, the accusations of fraud are faked. I never planned to steal Putin’s money, that is crazy, he said. Putin is slowly getting out of money, so he is finding new enemies of the state and I decided to leave to the Czech Republic, he added.

Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed "Putin's banker" because of his influence in the Kremlin, has filed a claim against Russia for more than $10 billion after his business empire was carved up when he fell out of favour with President Vladimir Putin.