*Alexei Ulyukayev denies charge of bribery*
*Placed under two-month house arrest*
*Could be facing up to 15 years in jail*
Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been formally charged with bribery in connection with a 4.6 billion euro acquisition by the state oil company, Rosneft.
The 60-year-old technocrat is the highest-ranking Russian official to be arrested while in office since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Pre…
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