Rustem Umerov “made a fortune” supervising the sale of government property, the American journalist has reported Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is “even more corrupt” than his predecessor Aleksey Reznikov, American journalist Seymour Hersh reported on Thursday, citing an anonymous US intelligence official.

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A single unit of exchange will emerge but the process will take time, an official in Russia’s foreign ministry says BRICS nations are moving towards the establishment of a single currency but it’s a long and “difficult” process, the head of the department for economic cooperation at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, Dmitry Birichevsky, said on Thursday. …