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78-year-old academic & navy veteran charged with HIGH TREASON for selling classified data on Russian Arctic submarines to China

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Despite Moscow and Beijing’s cultivation of friendship in recent years, there’s still competition between the two powers. The arrest of the president of Russia’s Arctic Academy of Sciences on treason charges serves as a reminder. … Read More >78-year-old academic & navy veteran charged with HIGH TREASON for selling classified data on Russian Arctic submarines to China

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Putin says Communists oppose proposed Russian constitutional changes because they want to re-establish one-party dictatorship

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President Vladimir Putin has accused the Russian Communist Party of calling on its supporters to reject constitutional changes because they “have always advocated the dictatorship of the proletariat” and seek its restoration. … Read More >Putin says Communists oppose proposed Russian constitutional changes because they want to re-establish one-party dictatorship

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Moscow protest leader Navalny faces community service & large fine if found guilty of libeling elderly WWII veteran

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Russian authorities have opened a defamation case against Alexei Navalny, after he called a World War II veteran a “traitor” for expressing his support for Russia’s proposed constitutional changes. … Read More >Moscow protest leader Navalny faces community service & large fine if found guilty of libeling elderly WWII veteran

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Russian court finds ex-US marine Paul Whelan guilty of espionage, sentences him to 16 years in prison

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Eighteen months after he was arrested in a Moscow hotel room and accusing of spying, a Russian court has handed down a 16 year jail term to Paul Whelan, a national of four western countries: Canada, Ireland, the US and the UK. … Read More >Russian court finds ex-US marine Paul Whelan guilty of espionage, sentences him to 16 years in prison

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Russian cities cancel victory parades EN MASSE as fear of Covid-19 still looms, Kremlin says it understands

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More Russian cities have canceled their second attempt at a World War II victory parade due to fears around Covid-19. At least ten have stopped or postponed planning so far, but Moscow’s showpiece ceremony will still go ahead. … Read More >Russian cities cancel victory parades EN MASSE as fear of Covid-19 still looms, Kremlin says it understands

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‘We’ll PLEASANTLY SURPRISE them’: Russia will be able to counter hypersonic weapons once other states develop them, Putin pledges

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Moscow knows other nations are hastily designing their own hypersonic weapons – but by the time they are acquired, the Russian military will have learned how to shield the country from them, President Vladimir Putin has said. … Read More >‘We’ll PLEASANTLY SURPRISE them’: Russia will be able to counter hypersonic weapons once other states develop them, Putin pledges