A Moscow court rejected an appeal on May 8 by Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov against his pretrial detention. Ivanov was arrested last month and charged with taking bribes of some $10.9 million, which he denies. The court on April 24 sent Ivanov, 49, to pretrial detention until June 23 after charging him with receiving a large bribe. Ivanov had been the subject of an investigation published in December 2022 by the late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
