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Rights activists skeptical about Interior Ministry reshuffles
Interfax
Leading Russian human rights activists believe the recent reshuffles in the leadership of the Interior Ministry announced by President Dmitry Medvedev are not a sign of a thorough reform of the Russian law enforcement institutions.
“This looks more like an outbreak of some intra-clan rivalry rather than a real reform of the Interior Ministry,” Lev Ponomaryov, the leader of the organization For Human Rights, told Interfax on Saturday in commenting on the reshuffles.
“I am sure that a real reform should begin with the interior minister,” Ponomaryov said.
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Crab Mogul Fears Magnitsky’s Fate
Arkady Gontmakher, a U.S. seafood mogul under investigation in Russia for money laundering, doubts he will last long enough to see the end of his case.
“I have suffered repeated heart attacks, and I don’t know for how long my heart will last,” he told The Moscow Times on Tuesday.
Gontmakher, 53, looked tired and tense during the interview in a hotel in Moscow. The businessman, who is forbidden to leave Russia, came to the capital for a medical checkup to decide whether he needs heart surgery.
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Official Not Worried About EU Visa Ban
A senior Russian investigative official said he would not care if the European Union banned him from entry over the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
“I don’t have any immediate plans to go abroad,” Alexei Anichin, head of the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Committee, told reporters in Moscow on Thursday. “But if I do go and they don’t let me in, it won’t be a big tragedy for me.”
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