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Bálint Ruff, the minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, signed the decision, meaning that at the end of July the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation (MCC) will cease to exist, along with all “public-interest asset management foundations performing public duties” (KEKVA).

For years, Aleksandr Lukashenko has presented his lesser homeland, Kopys in the Orsha District, as an exemplary “village of the future.”

Over the past three years, two U.K.-registered firms with no previous mining experience have secured state procurement contracts totaling tens of millions of dollars from a mining powerhouse considered a crown jewel of Uzbekistan’s economy.

As reported by media, Airat Gimranov — a man serving a life sentence, the closest associate of Yuri Shutov and a suspect in the murder of St. Petersburg Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich — has been transferred to Moscow’s Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.