Minsk – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to hand over a reserve force of police to neighboring Belarus as the political upheaval there it stays backwards. Speaking on Russian state television, Putin said that the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, “had asked me to …
Read More »Kremlin launches probe into Alexei Navalny’s alleged Kremlin poisoning
The Kremlin has announced the launch of a probe into the hospitalization of Alexei Navalny – the Russian opposition leader whose allies say he has suffered a state poisoning. Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin’s most famous critics, is in a medically induced coma in a Berlin hospital. Before being flown …
Read More »From Washington to Minsk, democracy is under siege … and the battle is lost | Opinions
iIt would be reassuring to think that if Russia entered the military militarily in Belarus – as it did in Ukraine and Georgia – the EU, the US and NATO would eventually draw a line. Vladimir Putin would be told, “Not again. Enough of your public aggression, covert operations, ‘little …
Read More »Putin critic Alexei Navalny evacuated from Russia to Germany
German doctors tried to determine what caused Alexei Navalny to suddenly become ill and enter a coma, hours after the Kremlin critic was evacuated to Berlin. In a statement apparently contradicting Russian doctors who said he was too ill and unstable to leave, the activist group that called for the …
Read More »Graham tweets support for Navalny: ‘The Russian people will reach a tipping point where they are tired of Putin’
Sen. Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamThe Nine Greatest Democratic National Convention Moments Everybody Talks The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Delegates stage state-centric videos for the roll call Lindsey Graham praises Jill Biden’s speech: ‘Outstanding person’ MORE (RS.C.), a leading foreign policy hawk and Russian critic, tweeted support for a Russian opposition figure …
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