Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that he is ready to send police to Belarus if protests become violent there. Speaking in an interview aired on Thursday, Putin said at the time that there was no such need and expressed hope to stabilize the situation in the neighboring country. The …
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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 …
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Forgive us for finding the international pressure for an investigation into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny to be a little … hopeless. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s biggest domestic critic of the last decade, has been in a coma since last week. After delaying his transfer abroad, the …
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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 …
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Before he found himself after his suspected poisoning to fight for his life, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny traveled through Siberia and urged Russians to vote against the coronations of Vladimir Putin in upcoming local elections. Navalny, 44, openly described Putin as “the tsar of corruption” and called the Russian leader’s …
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