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Dubbed: Navalny widow vows blame Putin and to fight for ‘free Russia’
Yulia Navalnaya says she knows exactly why her husband was killed on Friday but while she’s not yet revealing the reason, she places the blame squarely at Vladimir Putin’s feet. In the meantime she’s been addressing European leaders, recording videos and vowing to fight on for what she calls a Free Russia.
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Navalny’s death says ‘more about Putin’s fears than anything else’
We spoke to Professor Mark Galeotti, who’s a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and the author of Putin’s Wars. We started by asking him the significance of Navalny’s body going missing.
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Navalny ‘immortal, a symbol… a big, big problem’ for Putin, says opposition leader’s friend
We spoke to Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs in The New School in New York, and granddaughter of former Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev – and also Boris Akunin, author and friend of Navalny, who was also put on Russia’s register of “extremists and terrorists” for his criticism of Moscow’s war in Ukraine at the end of last year.
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The list of those behind bars or worse after opposing Putin
Opposing President Putin can be a dangerous business. The list of those who have ended up behind bars, or worse, includes both politicians and journalists.
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Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Siberian jail, says Russia
Alexei Navalny “was so many things Putin was not: brave, principled and dedicated to building a Russia where the rule of law existed” – the words of President Biden on Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, whose death was announced today.
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Anti-war Putin rival banned from Russia election
The only anti-war candidate standing in Russia’s Presidential election next month has been barred from taking part.
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‘No fair and free elections in Russia’ says Putin challenger Boris Nadezhdin
We spoke to Boris Nadezhdin, and began by asking if his growing popularity has become problematic for the Kremlin?
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Who is Boris Nadezhdin, Putin challenger who hopes to run in Russia presidential election
His surname derives from the Russian word for hope. And right now Boris Nadeezhdin is hoping the Kremlin will let him run for president against Vladimir Putin.
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Zelenskyy on Trump, Putin and how the war could end – full interview
We spoke to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside his heavily fortified Government offices – we asked him first, if his decision to stay in Ukraine after the invasion had convinced western leaders that he was someone they should invest in.
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Ukraine-Russia war: Putin ‘banking on fatigue in the West’, says foreign policy expert
A top NATO official has warned Europe to be prepared for all out conflict with Russia within the next 20 years. But the “second army of the world” which boasted of taking Kyiv in 3 days is said to have suffered more than 300,000 casualties since the full scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Putin makes emboldened speech – as EU opens Ukraine accession talks
EU leaders have agreed to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova.
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‘Putin will gain hard’ from Polish U-turn from Ukraine, says former Polish foreign minister
We spoke to former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski and began by asking him if he was surprised by this sudden U-turn from the Polish Prime Minister?
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Kim Jong Un and Putin building ‘problem-solving dynamic’, says director
We spoke to Dr John Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on North Korea’s military capabilities and nuclear ambitions.
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Kim Jong Un pledges support for Putin’s ‘sacred fight’ with West (dubbed)
The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has given his full support to what he called Russia’s “sacred struggle” – as he met Vladimir Putin for talks at a space facility in Russia’s far east. According to Kim, the two leaders agreed to “further strengthen strategic and tactical co-operation” – although there were no details…
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North Korea meets Russia: Putin and Kim Jong Un to discuss arms and nuclear tech
A meeting of two isolated leaders, usually too afraid of leaving home. North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un left his country by armoured train for the first time in four years to meet President Putin in Eastern Siberia.
