Vladimir Putin forms elite ‘spec ops force’ to intervene in Belarus if protests ‘get out of control’ Vladimir Putin said is he will intervene in Belarus if protests ‘get out of control’ He confirmed Russia has created a reserve police force to send to the country Added that move would honour joint defence pact Russia … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, tests carried out by German doctors have indicated. In a statement Berlin’s Charite hospital, where he is being kept under armed guard, said Navalny had fallen ill from a cholinesterase inhibitor and that its effectiveness has been ‘proven several times and in independent laboratories’. ‘The outcome of the … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, tests carried out by German doctors have indicated. He is being kept under armed guard at The Charite hospital in Berlin, where he is receiving treatment. Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert told a press conference this morning that is was ‘fairly likely’ the politician had been poisoned. ‘It … Read more
A plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital on Saturday. Images taken from the tarmac of an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk show Navalny being lifted into a private air ambulance – which was chartered to to fly him to … Read more
A plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital on Saturday. Images taken from the tarmac of an airport in the Siberian city of Omsk show Navalny being lifted into a private air ambulance – which was chartered to to fly him to … Read more
The nondescript cafe is where Alexei Navalny, the main opposition leader and Putin’s most vociferous critic, sipped a cup of tea before boarding a flight back to Moscow yesterday Tomsk, one of the oldest cities in remote Siberia, rarely makes headlines in Russia – let alone around the world. Not any more. For the Vienna … Read more
Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s arch-rival and critics, has been rushed to hospital after apparently being poisoned. The lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner fell ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk. Video shows the unconscious Navalny being stretchered from the aircraft into … Read more
Leading Putin foe Alexei Navalny ‘is poisoned’ and rushed unconscious from plane in a ‘grave’ condition after ‘toxin was poured into his tea’ Alexei Navalny, Putin’s arch political rival and critic, has been rushed to hospital His press secretary claimed he was poisoned with a chemical put into his tea Navalny, 44, was taken unconscious … Read more
The explosive Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday contains images of correspondence between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin where the future president seeks to ingratiate himself with the Russian strongman and touts the ‘beautiful women’ at the Miss Universe pageant. The images contain hand-written all-caps inscriptions in Trump’s familiar hand, at a time when the … Read more
The explosive Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday contains images of correspondence between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin where the future president seeks to ingratiate himself with the Russian strongman and touts the ‘beautiful women’ at the Miss Universe pageant. The images contain hand-written all-caps inscriptions in Trump’s familiar hand, at a time when the … Read more