Boris Johnson under pressure to take action against Abramovich and Usmanov

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told by MPs to sanction Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Everton backer Alisher Usmanov, both Russian oligarchs involved in English football, over human-rights abuses.  Both Abramovich and Usmanov were named by detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week as people who should be targeted by Western governments in a … Read more

Boris Johnson under pressure to take action against Abramovich and Usmanov

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told by MPs to sanction Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Everton backer Alisher Usmanov, both Russian oligarchs involved in English football, over human-rights abuses.  Both Abramovich and Usmanov were named by detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week as people who should be targeted by Western governments in a … Read more

Cops search Alexei Navalny’s flat for Covid rules-violation evidence

Russian police are searching the properties of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny today for evidence he breached coronavirus rules by calling for nationwide protests demanding his freedom.    Navalny, 44, was arrested on return to Russia following months of treatment for novichok poisoning in Berlin, which he maintains was an assassination attempt ordered by President Vladimir … Read more

Joe Biden calls Russia’s Vladimir Putin for the first time as president

President Joe Biden has phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in office – and raised a series of sensitive issues that stand between the U.S. and Russia. Among the most pressing concerns he brought up were the Russian state clampdown on peaceful protesters following the return of opposition figure Alexei Navalny to … Read more

Joe Biden calls Russia’s Vladimir Putin for the first time as president

BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden has first call with Vladimir Putin and raised detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and warned he will consider sanctions over Solar Wind cyberhack and ‘bounties on U.S. troops’ President Joe Biden has phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday Called to discuss renewing New START nuclear treaty Also raised ‘concerns’ including … Read more

Putin DENIES mega-palace in Alexei Navalny video belongs to him

Vladimir Putin has denied that a palace on the Black Sea belongs to him, after arch-rival Alexei Navalny accused him of owning it in an anti-corruption investigation.  ‘Nothing that is listed there as my property belongs to me or my close relatives, and never did,’ Putin said during a video call with students on Monday. … Read more

Putin DENIES mega-palace in Alexei Navalny video belongs to him

Vladimir Putin has denied that a palace on the Black Sea belongs to him, after arch-rival Alexei Navalny accused him of owning it in an anti-corruption investigation.  ‘Nothing that is listed there as my property belongs to me or my close relatives, and never did,’ Putin said during a video call with students on Monday. … Read more

EDWARD LUCAS: Alexi Navalny’s YouTube exposés make him a deadly opponent

Alexei Navalny is Vladimir Putin’s most dangerous foe. Yesterday showed why. Tens of thousands of Russians in scores of cities turned out, even in temperatures below -50C, to protest against their rulers’ greed, lies and thuggery. Kremlin spin doctors dismiss the anti-corruption campaigner as a crook, a Western stooge and an extremist. They mock the … Read more

EDWARD LUCAS: Alexi Navalny’s YouTube exposés make him a deadly opponent

Alexei Navalny is Vladimir Putin’s most dangerous foe. Yesterday showed why. Tens of thousands of Russians in scores of cities turned out, even in temperatures below -50C, to protest against their rulers’ greed, lies and thuggery. Kremlin spin doctors dismiss the anti-corruption campaigner as a crook, a Western stooge and an extremist. They mock the … Read more

Russian teen shows Alexei Navalny protesters how to ‘sound American’

A teenager is teaching other Russians how to ‘sound like an American’ when confronted by police at protests tomorrow against the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.  Law enforcement agencies are preparing to suppress nationwide demonstrations after 44-year-old Navalny urged supporters to flood the streets to protest him being detained on return to Russia.   Navalny, … Read more