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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny To Be Buried In Moscow Amid Tight Security Today

March 1, 2024 admin

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vociferous critic Alexei Navalny was died on 16 February. Moscow: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow later on Friday amid tight security and fears of a police crackdown two weeks after he suddenly died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony. Navalny’s allies…

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Navalny’s widow says Putin blocking body handover

February 24, 2024 admin

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of dead Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. File | Photo Credit: AP Alexei Navalny’s widow said Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered that his arch critic’s body should not be handed over to his family after his death in an Arctic jail nine days ago. Navalny’s mother has said authorities in…

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Watch | Two years of Russia-Ukraine war: Has India’s foreign policy changed at all?

February 23, 2024 admin

Ahead of the 2-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a barrage of European Foreign Ministers are in Delhi for the annual Raisina Dialogue. Is Ukraine in danger of losing land annexed by Russia permanently? And has the needle of Indian Foreign policy moved at all since 2022? We get you the picture that emerged…

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Reeling from Navalny’s death, Russian opposition vows to fight on

February 23, 2024 admin

After the shock of Alexei Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison, Russian dissidents in exile are vowing to pick up the pieces and press on with their battle against President Vladimir Putin’s rule. “Of course we will cry in our bedrooms and bathrooms but publicly we’ll definitely continue fighting against the regime with all our…

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Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty

November 2, 2023 admin

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: AP President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban, a move that Moscow said was needed to establish parity with the United States. Mr. Putin has said that rescinding the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,…

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Seoul says North Korea has likely sent missiles as well as ammunition, shells to Russia

November 2, 2023 admin

Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left in front, and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, second right in front, examine a rocket assembly hangar during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, in Russia, on September 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP North Korea has likely supplied several types of missiles…

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Putin Blames Ukraine, West For Anti-Israel Riot At Russia Airport

October 30, 2023 admin

The events in Makhachkala last night were instigated through social networks, Putin said. Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and the West of instigating the anti-Israel riot at Dagestan’s Makhachkala airport Sunday evening, an accusation that Washington has called absurd. Security forces have detained over 80 people since the incident, which saw…

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Russia President Vladimir Putin Says US Behind “Deadly Chaos” In Middle East

October 30, 2023 admin

The US and their satellites are the main beneficiaries of “world instability”, Putin said. Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of being responsible for what he called “deadly chaos” unfolding in the Middle East. “Who is organising the deadly chaos and who benefits from it today, in my opinion, has…

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Putin calls meeting after mob storms airport in Dagestan looking for Israelis on plane from Tel Aviv

October 30, 2023 admin

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia October 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin called a meeting of top security and law enforcement officials on October 30, the day after a mob stormed the airport in…

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Abortions in Russia | A chequered history from Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin

October 27, 2023 admin

Abortions were banned under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin but a commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again. Although abortion is still legal and widely available, new restrictions are being considered as President Vladimir Putin takes an increasingly socially conservative turn and…

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