The powerful president of Russia’s state-owned railway company, Vladimir Yakunin, confirmed late Monday that he will step down next month after a decade in the top post and expects to become a senator. Yakunin, 67, is a long-time confidant of President Vladimir Putin and on the United States sanctions list over the Ukraine crisis. He […]
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