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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country
When Elena Kostyuchenko was five years old, in Yaroslavl, a provincial city a hundred and seventy miles from Moscow, the corner of the room that she shared with her mother was taken up by a television with a bulging screen and a fuzzy picture. Kostyuchenko was captivated. She brushed the dust off the picture with her fingers. “It felt like touching a moth’s wings, ever-so-gently,” she writes in “I Love Russia,” a memoir and collection of reportage translated by Bela
Katie Price shows off her ‘natural lips’ as she has all her filler dissolved before getting them re-done in new ‘Russian doll’ style
She instantly became a pop culture icon after bursting into the public eye as loudmouthed Page 3 girl, Jordan.
Having tried her hand at modelling, singing, presenting, campaigning and reality TV, the glamour model quickly became a household name in Britain.
Yet while Katie Price’s moniker will ring a bell for both young and old, you would be forgiven for not recognising the star on sight alone, with Katie famously undergoing numerous cosmetic procedures over the years.
After two decades
The secret, slipshod evidence the EU uses to sanction Russian oligarchs – POLITICO
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BY LEONIE KIJEWSKI
IT WAS AN UNUSUAL APOLOGY: from the office of the president of the European Council to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
In a confidential evidence packet used by the European Union to justify freezing his assets, Viatsheslav Moshe Kantor’s nationality had been listed as “Jewish/Russian.”
A 70-year-old billionaire who once headed the Russian fertilizer giant Acron, Kantor stepped down as president of the European Jewish Congress after being sanctioned by the EU and the United Kingdom
Ex-FBI Agent Who Helped Initiate Trump-Russia Probe to Plead Guilty to Illegally Working for Russian Oligarch
According to federal prosecutors, Charles McGonigal received ‘concealed payments’ from a Russian intelligence officer.
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Russian Missile Strikes in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Kill 9 and Wound Dozens More
Since invading last year, Russian forces have regularly barraged not only civilian infrastructure that the Kremlin calls legitimate military targets, but also civilian sites with no relationship to the war effort, and often far from the battlefield.
That has continued even as Ukraine has waged a slow-moving counteroffensive in the south and east, forcing the Russians to concentrate more of their energies there. The Ukrainian forces have been bolstered by extensive training and weaponry from the West, and by conscription
Russian missiles strike Donetsk, killing at least seven – POLITICO
Russia struck the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region with two ballistic missiles overnight, killing at least seven people, local officials said Tuesday.
At least 81 people were injured in the strikes, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said in a statement.
“Among the dead are five civilians, one employee of the State Emergency Service, and one soldier,” Kyrylenko said. Of the injured, four were soldiers, seven were from the State Emergency Service, 31 were
Fiery ‘meteor’ in skies over Australia ‘probably a Russian rocket’, say scientists | Science | News
Spectacular footage has shown an unidentified object burning up in the skies over Australia – with scientists believing it was most likely a Russian rocket.
Footage shows the object briefly illuminating the night sky over Melbourne yesterday, prompting some to speculate that it was a meteor.
A statement issued by the Australian Space Agency said: “We have determined the flashes of light seen across Melbourne skies overnight were likely the remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.”
Ukraine says Russian missiles hit apartment in Pokrovsk, kill eight – EURACTIV.com
Russian missiles struck the centre of Ukraine’s Pokrovsk twice on Monday night (7 August) killing eight people, including five civilians, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a statement.
The second missile hit the Ukraine-controlled town near the frontline in Donetsk Oblast 40 minutes after the first, the governor said. It killed and injured first responders, witnesses of the strikes told a Reuters cameraman at the scene.
Two rescuers and one military person were among the dead. Nine policemen and one
Ukraine Says Russian Missiles Struck Town of Pokrovsk, Killing 5
Russian forces shelled a small city in eastern Ukraine twice in quick succession on Monday evening, killing at least five people, including an emergency worker who was responding to the first attack, Ukrainian officials said.
At least 31 others, including a child and more than a dozen police officers, were injured in the attacks on the city, Pokrovsk, Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, said on the Telegram messaging app. He praised the “heroes” who were first to arrive
Russian Agent Detained in Alleged Zelensky Assassination Plot
The incident prompted President Zelensky to make a statement lamenting the ‘struggle against traitors in Ukraine.’
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