Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly earned more than Russian President Vladimir Putin last year, while his two children took home thousand-dollar incomes. Two of Kadyrov's twelve children earned more than 9.9 million rubles ($176,000) last year, according to the politician's latest income declaration.

Valeriy Pereverzev / Facebook Almost a quarter of Russians have witnessed or experienced beatings carried out by police and medical staff, a new report hasrevealed. Some 22 percent of people said they'dseen police attacks firsthand, while 12.3 percent of respondents said thatthey had personally fallen victim to police brutality, a survey byhuman rights organization "Public Verdict" and Moscow'sMetodicheskaya Laboratoriya found.

Ilya Kutoboy “How can fuel, vehicles, and car repairs go up in price, while fares get cheaper?” asks Alexei Lukin, a taxi-driver and founder of an online group opposed to taxi aggregation apps like Uber. Like taxi drivers worldwide, Lukin is angry. This May, he helped organize a “protest ride” on Moscow’s Garden Ring, the main road dividing the center of the capital from its suburbs.

Members of Germany’s Chechen community say they’ve received a video featuring a masked man threatening to “correct” those who stray from Chechen traditions. The video is circulating on WhatsApp, an instant messenger network that’s enormously popular among the Chechen diaspora. “Here in Europe, some Chechen women and Chechen men who look like women are doing terrible things,” says the man in the video, citing interracial marriages.

Pixabay edited by The Moscow Times Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service announced on Monday that it’s uncovered a price-fixing cartel in the Defense Ministry’s procurement contracts, and the companies involved are the same ones opposition leader Alexei Navalny says belong to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the billionaire known as “Vladimir Putin’s favorite chef.” Antitrust officials say the cartel coordinated procurement bids to inflate prices on contracts.

Pixabay, edited by The Moscow Times Mikhail Samin, better known as Pasta Himself IV, the 17-year-old head of the “Russian Pastafarian Church,” says his high school principal is threatening to expel him, after state investigators twice summoned her to discuss Samin’s participation in the March 26 anti-corruption protests organized by Alexei Navalny.

Wikicommons / Modified by MT Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet French leader Emmanuel Macron before the end of the month as part of an “unplanned” visit to Paris, the Russian media has reported. Putin will reportedly meet the newly-elected Macron during a trip to see the official opening of a new exhibition dedicated to Russian ruler Peter the Great.

Russia has revealed that the United States submitted two officialappeals for information on possible Kremlin interference in thecountry's presidential elections in 2016. The first request was sent a week before the elections in Novemberlast year, the deputy secretary of Russia's Security Council, OlegKhramov, told the Kommersant newspaper. He described the appeal as a “vaguely-worded” document whichrepeated media reports on possible Russian meddling.

Russian believers have flocked to thecapital's iconic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in a bid to see holyrelics from one of Russian Orthodoxy's most beloved saints. Thousands of devotees are still waitingto pay their respects to the relics of St. Nicholas theMiracle-Worker, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported. The lineto enter the church currently stretches for an estimated 1.5kilometers, the outlet said. The relics of St.