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RUSSIAN DOCTORS HAVE given a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, a senior medic said. The reversal came after more than 24 hours of wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment. Navalny, a 44-year-old politician and corruption investigator…

Alexander Murakhovsky, chief doctor at Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 where Alexei Navalny was admitted after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning, speaks to the media in Omsk on August 21, 2020. — AFP OMSK: Russian doctors treating opposition figure Alexei Navalny for suspected poisoning…

Alexey Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger who for years has been Vladimir Putin’s only formidable opponent—which is to say, his only adversary who has remained in Russia, stayed active, and maintained prominence despite repeated attacks from the authorities—has been hospitalized in an intensive-care unit in the Siberian city of Omsk. He…

The amount of students deciding to take GCSE computing in England drops despite an increase last year By Clare McDonald, Business Editor Published: 20 Aug 2020 16:15 The number of students in England choosing computing as a GCSE subject has fallen in 2020, despite growing in popularity in recent years.…

MOSCOW—Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s political elite, was admitted to the intensive-care unit at a Siberian hospital after a suspected poisoning left him unconscious, his spokeswoman said. Mr. Navalny started to feel ill on a flight to Moscow nearly an hour…

Photo: Nikolay Vinokurov / Alamy Stock PhotoRussian politician Alexei Navalny is in a serious condition in a Siberian hospital after being “poisoned” in what Kremlin critics say is a targeted attack.Navalny, de facto opposition leader to President Vladimir Putin, was on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow when he…

President Donald Trump reached out to Russian President Vladimir Putin several times in the years prior to running for election, according to new documents released by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The messages do not reveal collusion between Trump and Putin over the 2016 election. The links between his campaign and…

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin warned top European leaders against interfering in the political crisis engulfing Russia’s longtime ally, Belarus, as protests against its leader continued to swell. Mr. Putin spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in separate calls Tuesday, a day before an emergency European…

MOSCOW — A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced an anti-Kremlin activist to two years in prison for displaying a life-size mannequin of President Vladimir Putin in a striped prison jumpsuit on a street in the city of Perm.The court found Alexander Shabarchin, a political activist in Perm, some 1,150 kilometers…

Russia has warned European powers that foreign interference in Belarus would be “unacceptable”, as EU leaders prepared for emergency talks on a crisis that could become a new flashpoint in relations between Moscow and the West. Diplomacy is intensifying around Belarus as its autocratic ruler of 26 years, Alexander Lukashenko,…