Alexey Navalny [1]‘s website navalny.ru is down after publishing materials on Transneft [2], Russian oil pipeline operator. The compromising materials claiming that top officials were involved in stealing over 4 billion dollars from the government budget, however, are available at his LiveJournal account [3] [RUS] and several mirror websites (here [4] and here [5]).
Russia: Anti-Corruption Blogger Claims Officials Stole 4 Billion Dollars
· Written by Alexey Sidorenko
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