Russian Mayor Allied With Prokhorov Is Held on Suspected Bribery
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Jake Rudnitsky – July 3, 2013) A Russian mayor who won a landslide victory against a candidate backed by President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party last year was detained by...
View ArticleCase Against Yaroslavl Mayor Looks Legitimate, Rights Activists Say
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Natalya Krainova – July 5, 2013) Investigators officially charged Yaroslavl Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov and a group of his subordinates with attempted bribery Thursday...
View ArticleRussian Opposition Mayor Arrested in Corruption Case
(RIA Novosti – July 5, 2013) A court in Yaroslavl ruled early on Friday to arrest an opposition politician who won a rare landslide victory against the ruling United Russia party in a mayoral election...
View ArticleRussia: Detained Opposition Mayor Pleads Innocence
(RIA Novosti – July 4, 2013) Yaroslavl mayor Yevgeniy Urlashov has pleaded not guilty to charges of extorting a bribe, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on 4 July. He made the statement at...
View ArticleUrlashov falls victim to politics – Prokhorov
(Interfax – MOSCOW, July 16, 2013) Civil Platform leader Mikhail Prokhorov wrote on his Internet blog that he offered birthday congratulations to Yaroslavl Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov, arrested over a...
View ArticleRally in support of arrested Yaroslavl mayor brings together 5,000 – organizers
(Interfax – YAROSLAVL, Russia. July 16, 2013) Supporters of the arrested mayor of Yaroslavl, Yevgeny Urlashov, have held a rally in the city on Tuesday. “We estimate that about 5,000 people took part...
View ArticleUrlashov Faces More Charges
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Yekaterina Kravtsova – August 1, 2013) Investigators said Wednesday that they were preparing a new criminal case against former Yaroslavl Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov,...
View Article‘Yaroslavl graveyard of the Russian spring’
(opendemocracy.net – Elena Vlasenko – January 2, 2014) Elena Vlasenko is a Russian correspondent writing for Sovershenno Sekretno and Index on Censorship. When Yevgeny Urlashov became the...
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