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Putin’s worst nightmare: Even in death, Alexei Navalny proves to be Vladimir’s nemesis as huge crowds chant ‘Russia without Putin’ and ‘Putin is a killer’ during funeral in greatest challenge to Vladimir in years

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The funeral for Alexei Navalny today proved to be Vladimir Putin’s worst nightmare as thousands of Russian mourners gathered in Moscow to say their final farewell.

Despite a heavy police presence and a warning against dissent from the Kremlin, the huge crowds chanted Navalny’s name as his coffin was carried into the Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Moscow at around 11am GMT.

Many carried flowers and shouted support for the 47-year-old anti-corruption campaigner who galvanised mass protests against

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Held down and forced to swallow Novichok… That’s the most likely explanation for the death of the heroic Alexei Navalny, concludes DAVID JONES following a forensic investigation that suggests Putin’s goons were at the scene of the crime

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During the depths of winter, just a handful of flights land each day at Salekhard airport, inside the Russian Arctic Circle.

As temperatures plunge below -30c and semi-permanent darkness shrouds the bleak tundra landscape, few outsiders willingly venture there. Among them are oligarchs, who make the three-hour trip from Moscow on private jets to hunt for reindeer and wolverine.

Unwilling arrivals are brought by cattle-class train, a journey that takes 45 hours, and decanted at FKU IK-3, otherwise known as

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How the Kremlin’s enemies die: Poison, staged suicides, falling out of windows… the many different ways Moscow’s opponents meet their maker, as Alexei Navalny is ‘killed using KGB heart punch’

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The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and accusations that Vladimir Putin was behind it have once again raised the spectre of Kremlin assassinations.

World leaders and commentators instantly pointed the finger at the Russian president when the news of Navalny’s death broke on Friday, with questions around the cause of death fuelled by officials delaying the release of the body.

Some have suggested the 47-year-old dissident was poisoned – as he was in 2020 in a previous assassination

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The GOP Has Crossed An Ominous Threshold on Foreign Policy

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The long decline of the Republican Party’s internationalist wing may have reached a tipping point.

Since Donald Trump emerged as the GOP’s dominant figure in 2016, he has championed an isolationist and nationalist agenda that is dubious of international alliances, scornful of free trade, and hostile to not only illegal but also legal immigration. His four years in the White House marked a shift in the party’s internal balance of power away from the internationalist perspective that had dominated every

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Alexei Navalny’s body ‘is FOUND and shows signs of bruising caused by being held down while suffering convulsions’

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Alexei Navalny’s body reportedly shows signs of bruising that were caused by being held down while he suffered a seizure, raising fears that he was killed on the orders of Vladimir Putin. 

The wounds are consistent with the Russian opposition leader – who died aged 47 on Friday amid claims he was ‘murdered’ by Vladimir Putin’s regime – having suffered a ‘seizure’, according to independent outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe.

The news outlet spoke to a paramedic in the Salekhard ambulance

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‘Stalinist.’ Putin nemesis Alexei Navalny gets 19 more years in prison – POLITICO

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A Russian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to an additional 19 years in a maximum-security prison, finding him guilty on extremism charges in what critics have lambasted as a “sham trial.”

Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison term in a maximum-security facility in Melekhovo, 250 kilometers east of Moscow, now faces decades behind bars.

Prosecutors had requested a 20-year sentence for

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On the hunt for Vladimir Putin’s ex-wife and her Ironman husband  – POLITICO

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The apartment belongs to the husband of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ex-wife, but the man who answers the door tells me it could be mine — for a price.  

He’s stocky, dressed in a tight white T-shirt, and he speaks with a Russian accent. He introduces himself as Vladimir and says he’s a business partner of Artur Ocheretny, the apartment’s owner, and could broker a deal if someone were

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How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder – POLITICO

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BERLIN — On a balmy September evening last year, an Azeri man carrying a Russian passport crossed the border from northern Cyprus into southern Cyprus. He traveled light: a pistol, a handful of bullets and a silencer.

It was going to be the perfect hit job. 

Then, just as the man was about to step into a rental car and carry out his mission — which prosecutors say was

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12 people ready to ruin Russia next – POLITICO

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Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military adventure in Ukraine has raised the prospect that his 22-year rule could be nearing its end. But will he go, or will he have to be pushed?

Seven months into the Russian president’s war of aggression, his troops have suffered massive losses of men and equipment and are in headlong retreat in eastern Ukraine. Putin’s order last week to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men has descended into chaos,

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12 Germans who got played by Putin – POLITICO

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BERLIN — Russia’s war against Ukraine has thrust Germany’s establishment into the throes of a tortured process of introspection, self-doubt and recrimination.

After years of lecturing the West that a bit of Ostpolitik was all that was needed to keep Russia in check, Germany’s political, media and academic elites are now obsessing over a new question: How could we have been so wrong?

Rarely has a country’s confidence about itself and its place

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