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Moscow has been buried underneath two foot of snow, causing massive snow piles, disrupting transport, delaying flights and making it tough for pedestrians to make their way through the city. Snowfall began late on Thursday and was expected to end later today, but Russia’s emergency service has warned people to stay away from trees. They’ve … Read more
EU accused of ‘kissing the backside of Russia’ after it turns to Moscow to make up its shortfall in vaccine supplies Josep Borrell backs Russian Sputnik V jab, congratulates country on its ‘success’ Russia expelled three European diplomats over imprisonment of Alexei Navalny Sir Iain Duncan Smith says EU is ‘kissing the backside of Russia,’ … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny appeared in court by video-link today to appeal against his arrest and imprisonment on his return to Russia, after his brother and several of his allies were taken into custody in overnight police raids. Navalny claimed he had been denied one-on-one access to his lawyer since his arrest at a Moscow … Read more
Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny is spending his days under strict control in a VIP cell inside one of Moscow’s most infamous jails, it has been revealed. The prison, called Matrosskaya Tishina or Sailor’s Silence, occupies a block in Moscow’s north-east and has housed high-ranking prisoners the authorities wanted to cut off from the outside world … Read more
Alexei Navalny has boarded a plane bound for Moscow, despite Russian authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, was flown to Berlin in August for emergency medical treatment after being poisoned with what German tests showed was a Novichok nerve agent. … Read more
This is the harrowing moment a dancer was shot twice in the chest by a masked assassin outside her apartment block in Russia. Natalia Pronina, 30, from Moscow, was gunned down at close range by a hooded and masked man as she returned to her home near to the Akademicheskaya metro station from a choreography session. … Read more
Kremlin tells opposition leader Alexei Navalny that he is breaching terms of a suspended prison sentence by staying in Germany to be treated for novichok poisoning – and demands he return to Moscow immediately or face jail The prominent Putin critic has been in Germany since his poisoning Russia’s prison service said he must return … Read more
Notorious British traitor George Blake who claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War dies in Moscow aged 98 George Blake died aged 98 in Moscow, Russian foreign intelligence revealed Blake claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent He had … Read more
Russian multi-millionaire’s daughter, 19, dies after plunging from window of Moscow high rise flat as her Kremlin-linked father slams claims of ‘criminal’ link to her death Daughter of a Kremlin-linked millionaire fell to her death from Moscow high rise Valeria Shpilenko’s body was found on Thursday, the day after her 19th birthday Her father Andrey Shpilenko was forced … Read more
Vladimir Putin ‘has secretly moved to Sochi during Covid pandemic and had replica office built so Russians still believe he is in Moscow’, anti-Kremlin media claim Proekt media reported on Monday that the Russian President had secretly moved to his summer residence in the Black Sea city of Sochi It claimed that a replica of … Read more