Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday hailed his army's capture of the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka as an "important victory," following a hasty withdrawal by Kyiv's forces.

The capture of the town marks the most significant territorial gain for Russia's forces since the seizure of Bakhmut last May.

"The president congratulated our

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Alexei Navalny's fans on Saturday implicated Russian authorities of being killers who were covering their tracks by declining to hand over his body, as the Kremlin remained quiet regardless of Western accusations and a flood of tributes to the late opposition leader.The 47-year-old Kremlin critic died in an Arctic jail on Friday after spending

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VILNIUS, Lithuania — Hundreds of Russian emigres gathered in central Vilnius to mourn the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, with many expressing a mixture of anger, sorrow and helplessness.

In Lithuania’s capital, a hub for exiled Russian activists, the death of Russia’s most prominent opposition figure in prison has cast a heavy shadow.

According

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A month before Russia's governmental election, specific to be won once again by President Vladimir Putin, the nation's anti-war opposition in exile admits that it is not able to influence the outcomes but hopes the West will do the ideal thing. None of Putin's challengers will be able to take part in the March election or organize independent monitoring o

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Ukraine's withdrawal from the city of Avdiivka hands Vladimir Putin a major symbolic victory before Russia's presidential election in March and exposes Kyiv's important shortages of weapons and soldiers.Symbol of Ukrainian resistanceAvdiivka, a small industrial city in the eastern Donbas area, has been a sign of Ukrainian resistance to Russian

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Russian authorities said that imprisoned opposition figure Alexei Navalny died on Friday, an announcement confirmed by his team one day later.

Navalny, 47, was serving a 19-year prison sentence on extremism charges in the Arctic at the time of his death.

The prison service provided little details about his death, which Navalny’s allies and s

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