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Tony Shaffer, the current president of the London Center for Policy Research, and a former intelligence operation officer who has spent 35 years working in global and national security, all but confirmed Jack Posobiec’s suspicions that “the Kremlin is up to something,” telling the Human Events senior editor that he…

With Chicago police leaders saying it’s most likely gunfire that struck two women late Friday at a White Sox game originated inside the ballpark, a lawyer for one of those injured issued a statement disputing any notion his client brought a weapon through security and accidentally fired it. The woman,…

A private memorial service was held for deceased Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin on Tuesday morning, as reported by his spokespeople. While specifics about the funeral were not released to the public, one striking detail emerged. Global News reported that Vladimir Putin announced he would not be in attendance, confirmed by…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is not planning to attend the funeral for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin said, following reports that the mercenary chief who challenged the Russian leader’s authority would be buried Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn’t say where or when the chief of the…

A Russian soldier captured by Ukrainians said in a newly published video that Russian President Vladimir Putin's military enlistment officers "encourage" people to fight in the war by threatening them with false criminal charges. Ukraine has previously posted videos of Russian prisoners of war speaking with their captors. The videos…

After being forced to cancel travel plans earlier this year after fears of being arrested over an international war crimes warrant, Vladimir Putin will reportedly be leaving Russia in the fall, according to Russian media. Any trip he makes will be his first since the death of Wagner Group head,…

'I am left with the only possible conclusion: Putin’s invasion was cynically planned to distract Russians from his failed domestic policies,' says columnist My next-door neighbour is Russian. Actually, Russian-Canadian, because several months ago he proudly showed me his Canadian citizenship certificate. The ink was still moist. This spring, we took in…

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Wagner mercenary fighters to sign an oath of allegiance to the Russian state days after its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and some of his lieutenants were presumed to have died in a plane crash. Under the new rules, which took immediate effect on Friday, all “persons…

By Michael Kimmage Updated Aug. 26, 2023 12:00 am ET By the time of his death in a plane crash this week, Yevgeny Prigozhin had come to symbolize the criminal trajectory of the Russian state. In the 1980s, he had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union, after which he experienced…