In the months before and after Aleksei Navalny’s January 2021 return to Russia, a bombastic pro-Kremlin lawyer named Ilya Remeslo led the public charge against the gadfly opposition activist and his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Navalny, who had…
Category: 1. Russia
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Explosion Rips Through Bank Entrance in Northeastern Moscow
An explosion ripped through a branch of the state lender Rosselkhozbank in northeastern Moscow on Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said “unlawful actions” took place on…
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Internet Outages Costing Russian Lives, Belgorod Governor Warns
Mobile internet outages across Russia are leading to needless deaths from Ukrainian attacks since Russians are sometimes unable to receive air raid alerts on their phones, the governor of the…
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Telegram news channels are one of Russia’s few major alternatives to state media. The head of one of the largest says their days may be numbered.
Last weekend, by all appearances, the Russian authorities began blocking the messaging app Telegram across the country. The restrictions promise to deal a heavy blow to what remains of Russia’s media landscape, including Ostorozhno,…
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In the USAID, irregularities have been identified in the provision of $26 billion in aid to Ukraine
Auditors from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have uncovered irregularities in the delivery of $26 billion in aid to Ukraine. This was reported by the agency’s Deputy Inspector…
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Ukraine’s counteroffensive brings gains in the south but weakens other sectors of the front. Meduza analyzes the latest battlefield developments.
Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article reviews recent battlefield developments based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the outset, and our military analyses…
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Russia and Ukraine Exchanging Around 1K Bodies Each Month, Red Cross Chief Says
The Red Cross said Thursday that it is facilitating the exchange of around 1,000 bodies each month between Russia and Ukraine, while “thousands and thousands” of dead remain unidentified.
Just back…
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Iran Strike Wipes Out 17 Percent of Qatar’s LNG Export Capacity
An Iranian strike last night destroyed 17% of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, Reuters reports, with repairs expected to take three to five years. Based on pre-conflict market estimates, the strike…
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A New Twist In Kremlin Efforts To Conceal Putin’s Location
Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting even harder to find.
In November, Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, revealed that the Kremlin was obscuring Putin’s location and keeping much of his travel under wraps by using three nearly…
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RT Crew Narrowly Escapes Israeli Strike in Lebanon During Live Broadcast
A correspondent and cameraman of the Kremlin-funded news network RT were injured in a missile strike while reporting in southern Lebanon on Thursday.
RT cameraman Ali Rida captured the moment…
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