Jailed Russian opposition political leader Alexei Navalny stated on Monday that the authorities at the prison where he is serving his nine-year term had positioned him in solitary confinement on New Year's Eve for the 10th time since his sentence started. My jail thugs actually bothered enough to assemble their commission on the weekend of December 31 e

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Advocates of Brazil's conservative ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed federal government structures in Brasilia on Sunday, one week after the inauguration of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Russian authorities used assistance for Lula, who now presides over the nation that like Russia is a member of the club of BRICS emerging economies:-- Konstant

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An exiled Russian war movie star faces criminal charges over his criticism of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, authoritiesannounced Monday.Actor Artur Smolyaninov made a series of statements versus Russia in an interview to a Western publication, Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major criminal offenses, stated in a brief statement.It did

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Russia's ruling party is purging its ranks of challengers to the war in Ukraine with AI and algorithms that track voters' social networks activity, the Vedomosti company daily reported Monday, citing unnamed sources within the pro-Kremlin party.The tools search two popular Russian social media networks, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, for politically s

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Five employees of what used to be authoritarian Belarus's largest independent news outlet went on trial Monday in Minsk, facing several charges including tax evasion and "inciting enmity," a rights group said. 

The outlet Tut.by covered large-scale protests in 2020 that erupted after President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a sixth term in office in

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The head of a Russian area on the Ukrainian border that has dealt with routine attacks throughout the war stated he has actually gone through combat training with the notorious Wagner mercenary group.Kursk region Governor Roman Starovoit said he, his coworkers in the local administration and a volunteer territorial defense system visited Wagner's training school i

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