Medvedev`s Air Of Invulnerability Dented As Russian Communists Back Corruption Probe
(World News Russia)

MOSCOW -- Communist lawmakers in Russia are pressing for a parliamentary investigation into possible corruption by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the latest attack on the former president since a report by opposition forces this month accused him of amassing huge illicit wealth. Communist Party lawmaker Denis Parfyonov told reporters on March 24 that allegations made against Medvedev by opposition leader and anticorruption crusader Aleksei Navalny had elicited only "silence" from the authorities. "Now the silence is working against the government and against the current party of power," said Parfyonov, referring to President Vladimir Putin`s United Russia party, which...