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MOSCOW (AP) — The daughter of an influential Russian political theorist who is often referred to as “Putin’s brain” was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday. The Moscow branch of the Russian Investigative Committee said preliminary information indicated a bomb planted in the…

The U.S. State Department on Saturday called on Russia to release imprisoned political leader Alexei Navalny on the two-year anniversary of his attempted assassination. Driving the news: A sharp critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Navalny survived Russian agents’ attempt to poison him in August 2020. After recovering, he was…

“Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come,” Jokowi, as the president is known, said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Thursday. It was the first time the leader of the world’s fourth-most populous nation confirmed both of them were planning to show up…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday agreed on the need to send a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, according to the French presidential office. In a phone conversation, the two leaders also agreed to…

In an address to the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security, Vladimir Putin denounced U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, saying, “The U.S. escapade toward Taiwan is not just a voyage by an irresponsible politician, but part of the purpose-oriented and deliberate U.S. strategy designed to…

Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage says Russian President Vladimir Putin saw “western weakness” while China also was “emboldened” in US President Biden’s evacuation of Afghanistan. Mr Farage said the evacuation of Kabul had been a “complete disaster”. “We need a strong America,” he told Sky News Australia. “America around the…

JTA — Why haven’t Russian troops more forcefully attacked Dnipro, the Ukrainian city that is a spiritual center of the Chabad Hasidic Orthodox movement? According to one provocative Ukrainian Jewish oligarch, the answer is an ancient Kabbalistic curse against Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Hennady Korban, who was stripped of his Ukrainian…

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WASHINGTON — Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been placed in solitary confinement at the remote penal colony where he is serving a nine-year sentence for supposed fraud, raising renewed concerns for the safety of Vladimir Putin’s top political foe. On his Twitter account, Navalny said that he had been placed…

Philippines in talks to buy US helicopters after dropping Russia deal The Philippines is looking to buy heavy-lift Chinook helicopters from the United States, after scrapping a deal with Russia worth 12.7 billion pesos (£188 million) in order to avoid sanctions, Manila's ambassador to Washington has said. In June, days…