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WaPo’s Tumulty: Russia Detained WSJ Reporter Because Putin Thinks Griner Swap ‘Really Worked out in Their Favor’ Putin

WaPo’s Tumulty: Russia Detained WSJ Reporter Because Putin Thinks Griner Swap ‘Really Worked out in Their Favor’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post columnist and Deputy Editorial Page Editor Karen Tumulty said that Russia’s “appalling” detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich earlier in the week took place because Vladimir Putin “made a calculation” that Russia’s detention of Brittney Griner “really worked out in their favor. They released her, and they…
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April 1, 2023
Belarus to restore Soviet launch sites for Putin’s nuclear missiles Putin

Belarus to restore Soviet launch sites for Putin’s nuclear missiles

Ukrainian soldiers on an armoured military vehicle in Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine Credit: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Belarus will repair disused Soviet missile silos as part of the Vladimir Putin’s plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the country, its President has said. Alexander Lukashenko made…
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March 31, 2023
Microsoft’s cloud practices anti-competitive, says Alphabet’s Google Putin

Microsoft’s cloud practices anti-competitive, says Alphabet’s Google

There is intense rivalry between the two US tech giants in the fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar cloud computing business, where Google trails market leader Amazon and MicrosoftReuters Brussels Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive Cloud computing practices and criticised imminent deals with several European cloud vendors, saying these do not…
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March 30, 2023
Russian troops facing ‘slaughter-fest’ in Bakhmut as Putin’s forces ‘hammered’ by Ukraine Putin

Russian troops facing ‘slaughter-fest’ in Bakhmut as Putin’s forces ‘hammered’ by Ukraine

Ukraine: 406th Artillery Brigade fires on Russian positionsRussian soldiers and mercenary fighters are falling victim to a “slaughter-fest” in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a senior US official has claimed, as Putin’s hopes of securing the region appear to be coming to an unsuccessful end. After months of brutal fighting…
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March 30, 2023
Russia to STOP telling US about missile tests as Putin shows off nuclear strength Putin

Russia to STOP telling US about missile tests as Putin shows off nuclear strength

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington A rocket launches from a missile system in a intercontinental ballistic missile test from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia (Image: AP) Russia today announced it will STOP informing the US about…
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March 29, 2023
Putin’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost ‘many’ vehicles after ‘tactically flawed’ assault Putin

Putin’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost ‘many’ vehicles after ‘tactically flawed’ assault

Russian forces have made only marginal progress around Avdiivka (Image: Getty) Putin's 10th Tank Regiment has likely lost "many" of its armoured vehicles in a series of disastrous setbacks. Russia has been focusing on a mission to surround Avdiivka, a town in the Donetsk Oblast according to the latest Ministry…
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March 28, 2023
West warns Putin against ‘dangerous’ nuclear rhetoric but downplays threat Putin

West warns Putin against ‘dangerous’ nuclear rhetoric but downplays threat

The United States and its European allies warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday against what they said was “dangerous” nuclear rhetoric after he announced plans to store tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a close ally of Moscow that shares a border with northern Ukraine. At the same time,…
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March 27, 2023