Anti-Putin Protests

Image copyright AFP All week, millions of Russians have been voting to reform their constitution, many using polling stations set up on tree stumps, park benches and even car boots. Giant prize draws have helped entice them to the ballot, with the chance of winning everything from shopping vouchers to…

Image copyright AFP All week, millions of Russians have been voting to reform their constitution, many using polling stations set up on tree stumps, park benches and even car boots. Giant prize draws have helped entice them to the ballot, with the chance of winning everything from shopping vouchers to…

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A prominent Russian opposition figure who vanished before surfacing in police custody has been sentenced to fifteen days in jail on "hooliganism" charges. Pyotr Verzilov, occasional manager of punk collective Pussy Riot and publisher of the independent MediaZona publication, appeared in court on Monday afternoon following the altogether bizarre run…

A prominent Russian opposition figure who vanished before surfacing in police custody has been sentenced to fifteen days in jail on "hooliganism" charges. Pyotr Verzilov, occasional manager of punk collective Pussy Riot and publisher of the independent MediaZona publication, appeared in court on Monday afternoon following the altogether bizarre run…

22:54 Reported News Briefs  Sivan 25, 5780 , 17/06/20 Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has stated that his country has foiled a Kremlin plot to assassinate a journalist who criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin last year on television.The Guardian reports that a Russian hitman was dispatched to Georgia by Chechen…

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Wanted: one leader of the free world. The United States need not apply. Washington's international standing has been shattered. And its chief ideological opponents – Moscow and Beijing – are crowing with joy. "How come US politicians called rioters in Hong Kong heroes, but when it's happening in America they're…

MOSCOW -- A Siberian court ruling placing in a psychiatric clinic a Siberian shaman who gained notoriety for claiming to want to remove President Vladimir Putin from power has been challenged by several Russian lawmakers. Aleksandr Gabyshev was forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic against his will after 20 officers…

A Russian court on Tuesday committed to a mental asylum a Siberian shaman critical of Vladimir Putin, a move rights groups condemned as a repressive move to silence a dissenter. Alexander Gabyshev, a self-styled shaman from Yakutsk, northern Siberia, last year set out to walk from his home to the…