(Bloomberg) — Australia’s domestic spy chief has revealed a foreign regime recruited a former lawmaker as part of a plan to access classified information via high profile figures, including a member of a prime minister’s family. Most Read from Bloomberg Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, warned that the threat of foreign […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. “Like everyone else, I also assume that it was the regime that killed him,” Scholz said on Monday in Berlin at dpa’s editors-in-chief conference. Russia is a dictatorship, the chancellor added. “His death is now the consequence […]
Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. says the tragic death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny underscores the corruption and ruthlessness of Vladimir Putin. “It’s a terrible reflection on Putin and on the Russian regime,” Bob Rae tells POLITICO, adding that allies of Ukraine must “redouble” their efforts because a Russian win would setback global democracy. […]
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny‘s death on Feb. 16 did not come as a surprise for those familiar with Russian politics. Navalny had become Russian dictator Vladimir Putin‘s main opponent, and the Kremlin had used all tools at its disposal to shut him up. He was sentenced in several fabricated criminal cases, and some of […]
Alexei Navalny’s words that his prison sentence would mean life in his case unless there was political change in Russia have been borne out by his death as an inmate. Mr Navalny was born in Butyn, about 25 miles outside Moscow. He received a law degree from People’s Friendship University in 1998 and did a […]
JJ Singleton thought he was losing weight because of his new diet and exercise regime. But it was really a symptom of stage two colon cancer. Singleton now raises awareness of the disease, which more young people are getting. When JJ Singleton noticed a throbbing pain in his abdomen in May of 2015, he dismissed […]