Yury Kuznetsov is suspected of taking a bribe on “a particularly large scale,” the Investigative Committee has said The head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Yury Kuznetsov, has been arrested, the Investigative Committee has said.

The trip will focus on fostering strategic partnership, with a number of agreements expected to be signed Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China later this week to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the Kremlin has announced. It will be the Russian leader’s first foreign trip of his new presidential term.

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