During the first two days of the New York auctions (4-5 November), Chinese buyers accounted for around 10% of the $750m turnover at Sotheby’s. Hundreds of St. Petersburg residents and cultural ...

Vadim Shamarin, a lieutenant-general, is one of a string of top officials charged in a series of corruption scandals that have engulfed the highest echelons of the Russian military establishment ...

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Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was arrested last year during a crackdown on corruption in the defence ministry launched by the Kremlin, and was accused of taking "a particularly large bribe" from a ...