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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Navalny's a…

MOSCOW – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Na…

Moscow (AFP) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager…

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Nav…

Science watch: Funding PC Nonsense A $700,000 climate-change musical, Turkeys veiling-fashion industry and animal depictions in National Geographic: The National Science Foundation, whose mission is to ensure the United States leadership in areas of science …

Visual Howlaround Title Sequence:I have mixed feelings about Catalonian separatism. pro: freedom, anti monarchy, Catalonia is awesome, anarchy, should Catalonia have to fund the rest of the country? Anti: Putin-funded, is Catalonia by itself viable?, separa…

While many a news outlet regularly reports when Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates flip-flop as to who is the richest person in the world, with Bernard Arnault and Warren Buffet nipping at their heals, as we previously noted in our article on the richest people in his…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- No dictator rules without a nations acquiescence, but in Russia in 2019, President Vladimir Putin has found that acceptance increasingly reluctant. His reaction: an increasing reliance on the stick as the carrot harvest fails to come in…

A Russian TV channel faced ridicule online after censoring a joke at the expense of President Vladimir Putin from the Ukrainian sitcom "Servant of the People." The private broadcaster TNT also stopped airing the comedy series after showing the first three epi…