Germany’s defense minister said on Saturday that his country’s commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defense was just the starting point and that more would likely be needed. Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted that the 2% spending target would be met “in the 2020s, in the 2030s and beyond.” However, … Read more
Russia has said an investigation into the causes of his sudden death is still underway. Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s body is apparently not in the morgue where prison authorities said it was being kept, his team said on social media on Saturday. Navalny’s lawyer arrived in the town of Salekhard with Navalny’s mother … Read more
Anti-Kremlin activist Bill Browder said he believes Alexei Navalny’s death was intended as a message to political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections next month. Dissident Navalny, who died Friday, had been serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of extremism in Russia, which he vehemently denied. World leaders reacted with dismay and … Read more
Many of the deaths are never solved and remain listed as accidental and suicides. Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny died Friday in an Arctic Circle jail, the Russian prison service said. But his death is only the most recent of a long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have been … Read more
Supporters of the leader of Russia’s political opposition, Alexei Navalny, showed up to memorials across the world Friday to mourn his reported death. Russian prison authorities said Friday that Navalny, 47, had died while in prison at a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, where he was serving a 19-year sentence. Memorial service at … Read more
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Alexei Navalny regularly ridiculed prison routines. (File) Moscow: Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, spent his final weeks in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle. His 19-year prison sentence was widely condemned by rights groups and in the West as punishment for daring to cross President Vladimir Putin. Through messages passed through his … Read more
Alexei Navalny, the fiercest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison Friday, according to international media reports citing Russian prison officials. However, there has not yet been any official confirmation of those reports from those close to Navalny, including his legal team. Navalny, 47, has been serving a 19-year sentence on charges of … Read more
