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A woman touches a photo of Alexei Navalny after laying flowers paying the last respect to him at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s team confirms his death and says his mother is searching for his body
Alexei Navalny’s spokesperson has confirmed that the Russian opposition leader died at a remote Arctic penal colony and says he was “murdered.”
 
A portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and flowers are pictured as people gather near to Russian embassy to France, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 in Paris. Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died in prison on Friday, a statement from the Federal Penitentiary Service said. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed over the years
Kremlin critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been attacked or killed in a variety of ways. The attacks range from the exotic — such as polonium-laced tea — to the more mundane, such as getting shot at close range.
 
A coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is carried to the entrance of the Borisovskoye Cemetery during the funeral ceremony, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. (AP Photo)
Protests, poisoning and prison: The life and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, has been buried in Moscow, two weeks after his still-mysterious death in an Arctic prison.
 
FILE - Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia on Feb. 29, 2020. Russia's prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was 47. The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Navalny felt unwell after a walk on Friday Feb. 16, 2024 and lost consciousness. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, has died in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence.
 
In this photo provided by Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Sunyiehubov, firefighters examine the site of Russia's missile attack that hit an apartment building in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb.15, 2024. (Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Sunyiehubov Office/ via AP)
6 people are killed, 18 injured by a missile strike in the Russian city of Belgorod, officials say
Officials say a missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border has killed six people, including a child, and injured 18 others, in what appears to be the latest exchange of long-range missile and rocket fire between the two countries.
 
A group of Russian tourists, likely the first foreign travelers from any country to enter North Korea since the pandemic arrive at the Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho)
North Korea welcomes Russian tourists, likely first to visit the isolated country since the pandemic
The first group of Russian tourists to visit North Korea since the pandemic has arrived in its capital, Pyongyang, as the isolated country offers tours to Russians who face obstacles to travel abroad during the war in Ukraine.
 
FILE - Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday. It is Putin's first interview to a Western journalist since the beginning of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Russia says former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has interviewed Vladimir Putin
The Kremlin confirms that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. It is Putin’s first interview to a Western journalist since the beginning of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago.
 
FILE - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi, front, attends an event for marking Statehood Day in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, on July 28, 2023. Rifts within Ukraine’s top leadership have burst into the open following swirling rumors that Ukraine’s top military chief will be dismissed amid reported tensions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The rumors that Zaluzhnyi was being sacked were denied by Zelenskyy’s office and the Defense Ministry this week and the immensely popular top commander still retains his post. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)
Rumors that Ukraine’s top commander may be dismissed expose rifts in Ukraine top brass
Reports have emerged that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to fire the country’s popular top military leader.
 
FILE - Chelsea's soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match against FC Barcelona in Gothenburg, Sweden, May 16, 2021. UK lawmakers said in a report Wednesday it's “incomprehensible” why funds from the sale of the Chelsea football club have not gone to support Ukraine, almost two years after former club owner, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, promised to use them to help Ukrainians. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
UK lawmakers are annoyed that Abramovich’s frozen Chelsea funds still haven’t been used for Ukraine
U.K. lawmakers have expressed frustration that funds from the sale of the Chelsea soccer club have not yet gone to support Ukrainian war victims as was promised nearly two years ago by the former owner, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
 
FILE – Liberal Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin speaks to journalists in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, after submitting documents to Russia's Central Election Committee for the March 17 presidential election. Thousands of people across Russia are signing petitions to support Nadezhdin’s the longshot candidacy as he challenges President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin
Thousands of people across Russia are signing petitions to support the longshot candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin.
 
FILE - Darya Trepova, a suspect in a bombing that killed a well-known Russian military blogger, attends a court hearing in the Basmanny District Court, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 1, 2023. The Russian authorities on Friday sought a 28-year prison sentence for Trepova over the bombing at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a prominent Russian military blogger and injured over 50 others. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russian prosecutors seek lengthy prison terms for suspects in cases linked to the war in Ukraine
A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for shooting a military enlistment officer in an attack last September linked to the war in Ukraine. Also on Friday, prosecutors in St.
 
FILE - Demonstrators gather outside the home of Russian ambassador Sergei Netshaev in Berlin, Saturday Dec. 16, 2023, demanding the freedom for all political prisoners in Russia, including Alexei Navalny. Allies of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say they are searching for him for a 13th day after he failed to appear in court. Navalny’s spokesperson wrote on social media that that Navalny had multiple hearings scheduled Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP, File)
UN expert expresses concern as Russian opposition leader Navalny disappears in prison system
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in Russia says she is concerned about imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
 
A woman holds her child waving a national flag as they celebrate Georgia's EU candidacy at Liberty Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Several thousand people attend a march in support of Georgia's EU candidacy. European Union flags waved across Georgia Friday after the European Council took a step forward along the long road towards granting Georgia and Moldova as EU membership. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
Moldova and Georgia celebrate as their aspirations for EU membership take crucial steps forward
Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27 member nation bloc by removing key hurdles on their long path toward membership.
 
FILE - Richard Moore, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, answers questions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, on Nov. 30, 2021. The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for encouraging Russians to spy for the UK after it broadcast part of a speech he gave earlier this year. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
MI6 chief thanks Russian state television for its ‘help’ in encouraging Russians to spy for the UK
The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for encouraging Russians to spy for the U.K. after it broadcast part of a speech he gave calling on Russians to join hands with British intelligence.
 
This photo taken from video released by telegram channel Navalny's team on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, shows as a person points a smartphone at a billboard with the words Happy New Year and the QR code in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was set up by jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, took out billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities which wished Russians a Happy New Year. But the website on the posters and the QR code led to a website with their campaign against the president called 'Russia without Putin,' in which the group call on Russians to vote against him in the March 17 election. (telegram channel Navalny's team via AP)
Allies of Russian opposition leader Navalny post billboards asking citizens to vote against Putin
Opposition activists in Russia came up with a way to get around Kremlin censorship while urging citizens to vote against President Vladimir Putin in an election next year: billboards disguised as a New Year’s greeting.
 
Igor Makarov poses for a photo during his interview with the Associated Press in Verona, Italy, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Most of his fortune earned doing business in Russia and the former Soviet Union is frozen, and his plans to develop his energy businesses are currently shelved. Western officials say sanctions against Russia's billionaires are meant to isolate President Vladimir Putin, choke off support for his war and turn powerful business allies against him. But in the 20 months since the invasion, only a handful of sanctioned businessmen have spoken out against him. (AP Photo/Emma Burrows)
The West has sanctioned Russia’s rich. But is that really punishing Putin and helping Ukraine?
Western officials say sanctions against Russia’s billionaires are meant to isolate President Vladimir Putin, choke off support for his war and turn powerful business allies against him.
 
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Sergey Mironov, 70, the leader of political party A Just Russia in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 14, 2023. A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin, Mironov has denied media allegations that he adopted a 2-year-old girl who was seized from a Ukrainian children's home and changed her name in Russia. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
Russian lawmaker disputes report saying he adopted a child taken from a Ukrainian children’s home
A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a 2-year-old girl who was seized from a Ukrainian children’s home and changed her name.
 
In this photo released by The State Duma, Russian lawmakers attend a session at the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. The lower house of Russia's parliament, the State Duma, has passed a record federal budget which aims to increase spending by around 25% in 2024, with record amounts going to defense. (The State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament via AP)
Russian lawmakers approve a budget with a record amount devoted to defense spending
The lower house of Russia’s parliament has approved a federal budget Friday that increases spending by around 25% in 2024 and devotes a record amount to defense.
 
Russian soldier back from Ukraine taught a school lesson and then beat up neighbors, officials say
A Russian soldier recently returned from fighting in Ukraine went to teach schoolchildren about Russia’s military campaign there before later beating up his neighbors, Russian news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti reported on its Telegram channel.
 
In this photo released by The State Duma, speaker of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin, right, arrives to attend a session at the State Duma, in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Russia's State Duma passed a record federal budget in its second reading which aims to increase spending by around 25% in 2024, with record amounts going on defense. (The State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament via AP)
A record Russian budget will boost defense spending, shoring up Putin’s support ahead of election
Russia’s State Duma passed a record federal budget in its second reading which aims to increase spending by around 25% in 2024, with record amounts going on defense.
 
FILE - Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, accused of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, awaits the judge's verdict in a glass cage, at the Moscow City Court, Russia, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. A lawyer for Khadzhikurbanov said Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, that he received a presidential pardon after doing a stint fighting in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
A man convicted in the 2006 killing of a Russian journalist wins a pardon after serving in Ukraine
A lawyer for a man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya received a presidential pardon after a stint fighting in Ukraine.
 
FILE - A soldier stands guard next to a wall of a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, July 29, 2022. A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to the front lines in their homeland to fight on Moscow's side in the war. The Associated Press could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the report or if the POWs were coerced. (AP Photo, File)
Russia reportedly is using Ukrainian POWs to fight in their homeland on Moscow’s side
A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to the front lines in their homeland to fight on Moscow’s side in the war.
 
In this photo released by the Khabarovsky Krai region government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, looks at a military jet cockpit while visiting a Russian aircraft plant that builds fighter jets in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, about 6,200 kilometers (3,900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (Khabarovsky Krai region government via AP)
North Korea’s Kim gets a close look at Russian fighter jets as his tour narrows its focus to weapons
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russia’s most advanced fighter jet at an aircraft factory on his extended visit to the country.
 
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, dances with then Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl as he attends the wedding of Kneissl with Austrian businessman Wolfgang Meilinger in Gamlitz, southern Austria, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. Kneissl has announced on Telegram on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, she has moved to Russia to work for a think tank she has set up in St. Petersburg. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
She danced with Putin at her wedding. Now the former Austrian foreign minister has moved to Russia
A former Austrian foreign minister who had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding and danced a waltz with him at the 2018 reception says she has moved to St. Petersburg to set up a think tank there.
 
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground right, attends the launch ceremony for the first technological line for liquefying natural gas on gravity bases as part of the Arctic LNG2 (Liquefied Natural Gas) project at the Center for the construction of large-tonnage offshore structures (CSCMS) of Novatek-Murmansk company in the village of Belokamenka, about 1700 km (1063 miles) north of Moscow, Murmansk region, Russia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. The U.S. is sanctioning a newly established UAE company, which provides engineering and technology that Western corporations previously offered, to Russia’s Arctic liquefied natural gas project, as well as multiple Russian companies involved in its development. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
New US sanctions target workarounds that let Russia get Western tech for war
The United States is sanctioning more than 150 businesses and individuals as it tries to crack down on evasion and deny Russia access to technology, money and financial channels that fuel Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
 
The special train of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is seen at the railway station upon his arrival by in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, about 6200 kilometers (3,900 miles) east of Moscow, in the Russian Far Eastern Amur region, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (AP Photo)
Kim Jong Un arrives in Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur for expected visit to fighter jet plant
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in far eastern Russia where he is expected to tour a Russian aircraft plant that builds fighter jets.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, seen center left, examine a launch pad of Soyuz rockets during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Kim Jong Un’s trip to Russia provides window into unique North Korean and Russian media coverage
The world is largely relying on North Korean and Russian media for information about the meeting between the nations’ leaders Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin at a space facility in Russia’s Far East.
 
Website of the Russian newspaper Kommersant and TV channel Rossiya 1 showing news that Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had reportedly been killed in a plane crash are displayed on phone and computer screens in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. World media speculates on Prigozhin's presumed death, as Russian state media shies away. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
While world media speculates on Wagner chief’s presumed death, Russian state media shies away
News that Russia’s Wagner mercenary chief was believed dead in a plane crash has dominated world reports, along with speculation that it might be linked to his June mutiny. But on Russian state media, there has been a very different picture.
 
A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former 'PMC Wagner Centre' in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Russia's civil aviation agency says mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
US intelligence says an intentional explosion brought down Wagner chief Prigozhin’s plane
A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash presumed to have killed a Russian mercenary leader.
 
In this image taken from video released by Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company speaks to a camera at an unknown location. (Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel via AP)
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said to be recruiting Wagner ‘strongmen’ for Africa
Posts on Russian social media channels indicate that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has published his first recruitment video for the Wagner Group since organizing a short-lived mutiny against defense officials in Russia.
 
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