In 2025, the security forces detained almost 100 high -ranking officials on suspicion of corruption. This is a record level of arrests for at least the last 10 years An handcuffs at the closed gates leading to Red Square in Moscow, Russia, April 29, 2022. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA The suicide of the Minister of Transport of Roman Starovoit, the former governor of the Kursk region, became one of the most high -profile events of July.