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Boris Nadezhdin says he will not rally his supporters to protest against his exclusion from next month's presidential election — because, he says, he has learned from “Alexei Navalny's mistakes.”

“It would mean exposing my supporters to the police and Rosgvardia’s batons,” Nadezhdin told The Moscow Times, referring to the inevitable crackdown await

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 28 February 2024

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer got here Friday in Ukraine in a bid to put pressure on his Republican challengers in Congress to open essential aid for Kyiv as Russia's invasion enters its 3rd year. We are here to show the Ukrainian individuals that America stands with them and will [continue] combating to get the funding they so frantically

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 28 February 2024

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Russia's appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday with Moscow lambasting its banishment from this summer's Paris Games as "discrimination."

The IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in October last year for violating the territorial integrity of

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 28 February 2024

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Russia has actually blocked the websites of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) five Central Asian bureaus, the independent internet flexibility screen Roskomsvoboda stated Friday.An unspecified state body ruled to obstruct the websites more than a year ago, in January 2023, however their domains wererestricted inside Russia only on Thursday.RFE/ RL runs

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Russian investigators have actually told the mom of Alexei Navalny that she must accept hold a secret funeral service for her child or they will bury him at the jail where he died recently, the late activist's spokesperson said Friday. An investigator called Alexei's mom an hour earlier and gave her a demand: either she consents to a secret funeral service without a

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced sanctions against Russia on over 500 targets to mark the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine, vowing sustained pressure to stop President Vladimir Putin's "war machine."

The sanctions, described as the largest single tranche since the start of the war, also seek to impose a cost for the death