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
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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
Putin chose the moment to make his first public remarks on Navalny’s death, claiming in a victory press conference Sunday night that he’d agreed to swap the opposition leader in a prisoner exchange days before he died in an Arctic jail. “We can only consider that this election has been taken in the middle of … Read more
Fire erupted at Rosneft PJSC’s largest oil refinery after a drone strike, as Ukraine unleashed fresh attacks on Russia that President Vladimir Putin claimed were part of attempts to disrupt this week’s presidential election. “The Ryazan refinery was hit by a drone. The impact started a fire,” Ryazan regional Governor Pavel Malkov said Wednesday on … Read more
He added, “We do not see any imminent threat of Russia using these weapons. But these statements are in themselves very dangerous, because they erode trust. Russia knows the consequences of taking such a step.” Geoană, who could step down later this year to run in the Romanian presidential election in September, also said NATO … Read more
The resolution noted that more than “220,000 Russian citizens” live inside the region. Moscow has recently made it easier for Moldovans to get Russian citizenship. Transnistria, which sits along Moldova’s border with Ukraine and is mostly populated by Russians, Ukrainians and Moldovans, has functioned as an unrecognized state since the fall of the Soviet Union, … Read more
Breaking down the new U.S. sanctions on Russia – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. on Friday issued its largest sanctions package against Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine two years ago. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, … Read more
Adding to the anguish felt by the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s family, his mother and his team have reportedly been denied access to his body and told by investigators that the official probe into his death is being extended, and it’s unclear how long it will take. “They are cowardly and meanly hiding … Read more
However, Boris Pistorius, Germany’s federal minister of defense, stressed that spending 2% was always designed to be a minimum. “2% can only be the start of it. We might — we’ll probably need more — in the next years,” Pistorius said on a CNBC-moderated panel at the Munich Security Conference. Former US President and 2024 … Read more