Favorskaya, a correspondent for independent broadcaster Sotavision, was detained for a second time on Wednesday after initially serving a 10-day administrative sentence in the Moscow region on charges of disobeying police orders, Sotavision said in a post on Telegram. She had also extensively covered Navalny’s funeral in Moscow before she was detained at a cafe on an … Read more
Putin won a personal-best 87 percent support in Russia’s three-day presidential election, which ended Sunday. The results were dismissed as “obviously not free nor fair” by a White House National Security Council spokesperson. The last time he won the presidency, in 2018, Putin received congratulations from many EU countries, including Austria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, … Read more
In two German state elections that are seen as a bellwether of the national mood, the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, surged while the three parties that make up the country’s federal coalition government suffered significant losses. Conservative forces won clear victories in both the states of Bavaria and Hesse. In Bavaria, the Christian … Read more