Earlier this week, the US and EU imposed sanctions on several Russian government officials and entities over the imprisonment and alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk reportedly didn't respond to a follow up about chatting with Vladimir Putin on Clubhouse.
Musk tweeted at the Kremlin last month, inviting Putin to join him on the popular...
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Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate.
That changed on Sunday when it emerged that the Kremlin's most...
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sent to a prison outside Moscow to serve his sentence, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that came despite a demand by Europe's top human rights court for his release.Navalny lawyer Vadim Kobzev did...
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Even as the Kremlin’s military budget continues to shrink, Western military leaders are claiming Russia poses an “existential threat” to them, justifying greater and greater expenditures on their own weapons of war.
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On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan and co-host John Kiriakou discussed current events, including Tiger Woods being involved in a single-vehicle accident, and Operation Dragon: Inside The Kremlin’s Secret War on...
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The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
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The Kremlin's most prominent opponent, Alexey Navalny, faces two court decisions Saturday that could seal a judge's ruling to jail him for several years, after he returned to Russia following a poisoning attack.A Moscow court is due to rule on...
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Warfare History Network
History, Middle East
The expensive and foolish war was the Kremlin’s own Vietnam.
Key Point: Big powers have difficulties fighting insurgencies in rugged terrain. Here is how the Soviets were defeated, foreshadowing...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Moscow is unaware of reported talks between the United States and Germany about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project and believes that Berlin wants the Russian gas pipeline completed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is calling on Russia to release top Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. ECHR said in a press release Wednesday that it "grants an interim measure in favor of" Navalny and "asks the Government of Russia to...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to doing a Clubhouse interview with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday.
“We want to figure it out first. President Putin does not personally use...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Elon Musk tweeted at the Kremlin on Saturday asking Vladimir Putin to join him on Clubhouse.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesperson, said Monday...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian law enforcement did not take any measures on Sunday, during the flashmob with flashlights, organised by allies of Alexey Navalny, because everything was calm, and measures are only ever taken if laws are broken,...
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty says Russia is violating a bilateral investment treaty by targeting the organization’s news operations within Russia under its controversial “foreign agent” law.
The assertion, made public by RFE/RL in a...
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"Show Of Force Unseen Since Cold War": US Military Flexes In Norway
Amid mounting tensions between Russia and the West and as the Kremlin has lately placed strategic emphasis on its military readiness in the far north Arctic Circle, AFP...
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E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was so badly burned he’s now threatening sanctions against the Kremlin.
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Germany, Sweden and Poland on Monday each threw out a Russian diplomat in retaliation for Moscow's expulsion last week of their diplomats for allegedly taking part in protests in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
The three EU countries...
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Mark Episkopos
Security, Europe
It appears that Moscow is looking to build on its initial successes.
With the dust barely having settled on its current roster, the Kremlin is already planning its next generation of hypersonic weapons.
At a...
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“Who cares about him?” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a December news conference when asked about Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who survived a near-fatal poisoning and was arrested last month in Moscow on his return following...
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