By Max Hunder KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Peeking out from under a hat and with his face covered, the Russian fighting for Kyiv described unrelenting battles in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv where Moscow’s forces opened a new front last week. “The situation is difficult, the intensity is very high, there is fighting […]
Some Russian voters have done more than vote to express their displeasure with sitting President Vladimir Putin, going so far as to commit acts of vandalism caught on camera that include setting fire to ballot boxes. Russian authorities arrested at least nine people on the first day of voting in an election that analysts and […]
Plans to hold a funeral for Alexei Navalny on Thursday have been thwarted because it would clash with an address by President Vladimir Putin, according to the former opposition activist’s foundation. Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, said in a statement Wednesday that the team had struggled to find a venue for the […]
A Moscow court sentenced Russian blogger Igor Girkin to four years in prison Thursday, after finding him guilty of extremism charges for speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the state-run media outlet TASS. Girkin, a pro-Ukraine war blogger, was critical of Putin and had referred to him as a “lowlife” and a […]