Putin says Russia is aiming for Covid herd immunity by autumn as he gives state-of-the-nation speech while Moscow stirs war in Ukraine and braces for nationwide Alexei Navalny protests Putin is addressing lawmakers amid heightened tensions at home and abroad After the speech, pro-Navalny protests have been planned in 100 cities in Russia The jailed … Read more
Ukraine in their sights: On a Russian base just 100 miles from the border, 15 supersonic strike jets await Putin’s orders The 15 supersonic Russian fighter-bombers are currently waiting on at a runway at the Morozovsk airbase Armed with array of laser-guided missiles and a 30mm autocannon capable of firing 1,800 rounds a minute Pictured reveal … Read more
Ukraine‘s president has warned Vladimir Putin ‘millions of lives are at stake’ if conflict erupts between the countries. Volodymyr Zelensky told the Russian leader he wanted to meet in the centre of the warzone in the Ukrainian Donbass. It comes after Russia insisted it has the right to restrict foreign naval ships’ movement off Crimea, … Read more
Alexei Navalny‘s doctors have again been denied access to him despite growing concerns over his health as Russian state TV imposed a news blackout on his hunger strike. The jailed Kremlin critic, 44, has been striking since March 31 demanding medical treatment for a litany of ailments and a team of medics including his personal … Read more
A children’s author was shot and then beaten to death by a neighbour with mental health issues, after he became convinced the victim was a spy working for Russian president Vladimir Putin to spread Covid-19, an inquest has heard. James Nash, 42, was shot in the front garden of his home in the hamlet of … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is to be taken to hospital after his 20-day hunger strike in prison left his life ‘hanging by a thread’. It comes after his allies today said they are braced for ‘very grave’ news about his health when his lawyers see him again after they were kept away over the weekend. … Read more
Russian politicians have told President Vladimir Putin that he ‘bears personal responsibility for the life’ of Alexei Navalny as the Kremlin critic’s life ‘hangs by a thread’ in prison. Nearly a dozen lawmakers signed and published an open letter to the Russian leader as doctors warn Navalny’s health is failing amid a hunger strike. Vladimir … Read more
Joe Biden said Saturday that the treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is ‘totally inappropriate’. ‘It’s totally, totally unfair, totally inappropriate,’ Biden weighed in on the matter while speaking to reporters at Wilmington Country Club after a round of golf. ‘On the basis of having been poisoned and then on a hunger strike. It’s … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ‘is dying’ and could suffer a cardiac arrest at ‘any minute’, his doctor warned today as medics are barred from the penal colony. Vladimir Putin‘s most prominent rival, 44, was imprisoned in February and is serving two-and-a-half years on old embezzlement charges in the town of Pokrov, around 60 miles … Read more
The White House listed a number of reprisals against Moscow for the Ukraine build-up, election interference, the ‘bounties’ on Afghanistan soldiers and the SolarWinds hack ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS Treasury sanctioned 32 entities and individuals carrying out Russian government-directed attempts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and other acts of disinformation and interference. This action seeks … Read more