Last week, Vladimir Putin signed a decree accepting the “voluntary” resignation of Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak. Before taking up this high-level post, Kozak served as Russia’s deputy prime minister for 12 years,…
Category: 1. Russia
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As Moldova Votes, Widespread Poverty Feeds Anti-Western Narratives
Cristina Crudu looks across her apple trees and laments that her business may soon go bankrupt due to the economic stresses Moldova has suffered since Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Moldova remains firmly tied to…
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Trump calls Russia a ‘paper tiger,’ says Ukraine is strong enough to take back all occupied territory — Meduza
After endorsing NATO strikes on any Russian warplanes that violate Allied airspace, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to raise his support for Ukraine, declaring on social media that Ukraine can win back its entire occupied territory…
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‘It Doesn’t Really Cost Much to Russia’: What’s Behind Putin’s Offer to Extend New START Treaty?
President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to extend Russia’s participation in the New START Treaty, the last surviving arms treaty between the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
While experts and…
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See you in court Power struggle erupts in Russian judicial system as Prosecutor General accuses senior judge of amassing criminal hotel empire
Russian federal prosecutors have filed a lawsuit seeking to seize billions of rubles in assets from one of the country’s most senior judges. Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov’s office accuses Viktor Momotov of illegally amassing a hotel…
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Trump Says Kyiv Can Win Back ‘All of Ukraine’ in Major Shift
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could win back all of its territory from Russia — and even go further — in a major pivot after meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The astonishing turnaround came shortly…
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Trump Says NATO Nations Should Shoot Down Russian Jets Breaching Airspace
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that NATO nations should shoot down Russian planes violating their territory, as he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of a UN…
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UN Slams ‘Systematic’ Russian Torture of Ukrainian Civilians
Russian authorities have subjected civilian detainees in Ukrainian areas it occupies to “widespread” and “systematic” torture, including sexual violence, the United Nations said Tuesday.
A UN rights…
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‘I want him to come home’ Eleven Russian police officers arrest the mother of a mobilized soldier for holding a sign with only a date — Meduza
On September 21, the third anniversary of Russia’s “partial mobilization,” police in Moscow arrested Lidia Yegorova, the mother of a mobilized soldier, for staging a protest outside the Defense Ministry. Yegorova’s sign bore only…
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Poland to Reopen Border With Belarus
Poland will reopen its border with Belarus this week, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday, two weeks after it was sealed during Russian-led military exercises.
The closure of the border was…
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