Opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin is forming in the Russian economic and political elite, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Radio Liberty reports. According to intelligence, representatives of the Russian elite are considering the possibility of "poisoning, sudden illness, accident" to remove Putin and restore economic ...
Former editor-in-chief of the Nexta telegram channel Roman Protasevich called himself an “ideological fool” and believes that there is no alternative to Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, ZNAK reports. “In the summer-autumn of 2020, when I tried to be active, I was passionate, I was an ideological fool. It seemed like everything...
On January 26, 54-year-old Russian opposition leader Konstantin Sinitsin, a regular participant in peaceful protests, was killed in St. Petersburg. About this, with reference to human rights activist Dinar Idrisova, writes the Fontanka edition. The body of a man with traces of head injuries was found in the entrance of his house on the street ...
The statement by the former head of the YUKOS company Mikhail Khodorkovsky that “a revolution in Russia is inevitable,” according to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, may contain “signs of public calls for a violent change in the foundations of the constitutional system.” According to official representative of the prosecutor's office Marina Gridneva, the words of the disgraced businessman will be checked by the Investigative Committee (ICR), which may decide on...
Before that, New Yorkers had never had a chance to communicate with well-known Russian oppositionists. But last weekend they finally succeeded, and with two at once - fugitive deputy Ilya Ponomarev and public figure Vladimir Milov. It was at the Brooklyn Public Library. ...
At the last meeting of the UN General Assembly, an 11-year-old boy was in the same room with world leaders. He sat at a table with a sign “Belarus”, was smartly dressed and well-haired. The recent trip of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to New York indicates that...
The alleged accomplice in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Anzor Gubashev, during interrogation by the police said that he helped organize the crime because of the politician's "anti-Russian and anti-Muslim" statements. As Kommersant managed to find out, Anzor Gubashev said that he had watched Nemtsov's actions for a long time and was outraged by his statements about Islam and Russia's actions in Ukraine. ...
The Moscow Mayor's Office refused the proposal of State Duma Deputy Dmitry Gudkov to immortalize the memory of the former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in Moscow on February 27 this year. Gudkov proposed to perpetuate the memory of the politician in any way: from renaming the bridge where Nemtsov was killed, to the name of the street in his honor and installation ...
Brothers Alexey and Oleg Navalny were awarded a prestigious human rights award from the organization “Platform of European Memory and Conscience”. “The prize is awarded to people who oppose totalitarianism, defending the ideas of democracy, the rule of law and human rights. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to fighters against anti-democratic regimes...
During his visit to the United States, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov handed over to Congress a list of journalists from Russian TV channels, whom, in his opinion, should be added to the so-called Magnitsky list and against whom US sanctions should be imposed. The opposition politician did not specify the names of those ...