Topline Russian state media latched onto a dubious plot to assassinate some of the most famous Russians tied to the country’s state-run media operations Monday, a plot President Vladimir Putin alleged...
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CNN’s Documentary Of A Jailed Putin Critic Is An Urgent, Unforgettable Film
A scene from the CNN Films documentary “Navalny.” WarnerMedia/CNN Even if you already know the particulars of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s story — that he survived a Kremlin-...
Russia Wants ‘Full Control’ Over Ukraine’s South, East And Eyes Part Of Moldova, Commander Says
Topline Russia will try to assert full control over large swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine and could be targeting Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova, a commander of Russia’s Central Military Dist...
New Mass Grave Site Spotted Outside Mariupol, According To Satellite Images
Topline Satellite photos appear to show a mass grave near the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, satellite firm Maxar Technologies said Thursday, after local officials claimed Russia had disposed of...
As Putin eyes a date to declare victory, here’s a Ukraine scenario that could slam stocks by another 10%
Stocks are set to get a major bump on Thursday, thanks to blowout results from Tesla, which go some way in easing the sting over Netflix disappointment. With earnings sharply in focus for now, market ...
Serena Williams, Lewis Hamilton Join U.K. Bid To Buy Chelsea From Russian Billionaire Abramovich, Report Says
Topline Serena Williams and Sir Lewis Hamilton have reportedly backed a bid to buy Chelsea Football Club from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, according to Sky News on Thursday, as the global bid...
Putin Claims Russia Has ‘Liberated’ Mariupol, Orders Siege Of Steel Plant Where Ukrainian Fighters Remain
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his country’s forces had successfully captured the key port city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine which has been under a bloody siege for nearly two mon...
Fed’s Bostic Cautious About Rate Hikes as President Biden Blames Higher Prices on Covid-19 and Putin – Economics Bitcoin News
As inflation continues to wreak havoc on the lives of ordinary American citizens, all eyes are focused on the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plans to fix the situation. Meanwhile, as the St. Louis Fed preside...
UK shuns Moscow Stock Exchange in fresh blow to pariah Putin
Moscow Stock Exchange UK sanctions Russia Ukraine war trading ban – YURI KOCHETKOV/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The UK is revoking the Moscow Stock Exchange’s status as a recognised stock exchange in th...
Putin Honors Army Unit Accused Of Bucha Killings
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday awarded the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade — the Russian army unit Ukraine has accused of war crimes for the killings of hundreds of citizens in Bucha — th...
The Oil Market After The War
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine’s Lugansk region. (Photo by … [+] Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images) AF...
Inside The Last Days Of Abramovich’s Reign At Chelsea FC
The last days of Roman Abramovich at Chelsea AFP via Getty Images Inside the Premier League’s rather modest headquarters in Gloucester Place, London, the league’s soccer-obsessed staffers are busy pre...
Putin claims Europe cannot survive without Russian gas
Vladimir Putin Russia energy West Europe sanctions oil gas China – JACK GUEZ / AFP Vladimir Putin has taunted Europe for its inability to wean itself off Russian gas as he said the Kremlin was w...
Russia Say It Has Captured More Than 1,000 Ukrainian Marines, Zelensky Offers Prisoner Swap With Putin Ally
Topline The Russian defense ministry claimed on Wednesday more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the besieged city of Mariupol, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed to ...
Rerouting Russian Oil Would Require Dozens Of Supertankers — That Don’t Exist
Tankers gather off the coast of Thailand. Getty Before its war in Ukraine, Russia was producing about 11 million barrels per day of crude petroleum, about 10% of global demand. Since then, amid sancti...
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer—A Putin Critic—Will Visit Kremlin
Topline Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, he announced Sunday afternoon, marking the first visit of an avowed Putin critic to the K...
Plan To ‘Terrorize’ Ukrainian Civilians Came From ‘Highest Levels’ Of Russian Government, White House Says
Topline National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday there was a plan from the “highest levels” of the Kremlin all the way up to Russian President Vladimir Putin to “brutalize” Ukrainian civili...
Putin May Use U.S. Support For Ukraine As A Pretext To Meddle In U.S. Politics, U.S. Intelligence Reportedly Believes
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin might use the United States’ support for Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion to meddle in another U.S. election, U.S. intelligence officials have conclud...
The EU’s Energy Dependence On Russia Charted [Infographic]
While the U.S. is moving away fast from Russian energy imports, the EU—one of Russia’s crucial trading partners—is taking more time to ween itself off Russian gas, oil and coal despite heightened scru...
U.K., EU Sanctions Take Aim At ‘Lavish Lifestyles’ Of Putin’s Daughters
Topline The U.K. government on Friday announced sanctions on the adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the European Union will reportedly follow suit mirroring U.S. measures imposed ...
Canada, Not Russia, Now Leading U.S. Importer Of Refined Petroleum Products
After two years with Russia on top in the value of U.S. imports of refined petroleum products, … [+] Canada is running ahead of Russia through February. ustradenumbers.com Canada now leads Russi...
Putin Spokesperson Admits ‘Significant Losses’ Of Russian Troops In Ukraine
Topline Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” during its invasion of Ukraine and claimed in an interview with British media Thursday that Russia’s...
Most Republicans Okay With Trump Asking Putin For Dirt On Hunter Biden, Poll Suggests
Topline A new poll released Wednesday found more than two thirds of Republican respondents didn’t have a problem with former President Donald Trump asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for disparag...
EU Sanctions Will Reportedly Target Several Billionaires With Close Ties To Putin
Topline The European Union will reportedly add Russian oligarchs including Sberbank CEO Herman Gref and aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska to its sanctions list as the bloc looks to impose harsher punishm...
EU Chief Von Der Leyen Will Visit Zelensky In Kyiv As More Countries Expel Russian Diplomats Over Bucha
Topline European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will travel to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv this week, according to the chief spokesperson for the Commission on Tuesd...
Is Putin Committing Genocide In Ukraine?
Early April 2022 has seen allegations of Putin committing genocide in Ukraine. These allegations, as expressed by President Zelensky, came after Russian troops were retreating from Bucha and Irpin rev...
Why Putin Decided To Invade Ukraine And Why It Led To War Crimes
TOPSHOT – Firefighters work on a fire on a building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of … [+] Chuguiv. AFP via Getty Images Writing in this column on January 24th as the Russian ...
As Russian Troops Leave Irpin And Bucha, Ukraine, More Evidence Of Putin’s War Crimes Emerges
April 3, 2022, has seen reports of egregious crimes being perpetrated in Irpin and Bucha, Ukraine. Among others, media outlets reported on images of Ukrainian civilians lying dead on the streets of Bu...
Zelensky Accuses Russia Of Genocide As Allegations Of Civilian Killings Mount
Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday accused Russia of committing genocide during its invasion of Ukraine, marking the most sweeping genocide allegation from Zelensky yet, after Ru...