Section: Africa&ME
EU, rights activists express outrage over police brutality, arrests in Russia
Russin opposition leader Alexei Navalny is detained by police after calling for protests across Russia ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term © AFP / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEVMoscow, Russian Federation, May 6 – Foreign governments and rights activists on Sunday expressed outrage over mass arrests in Russia and the...
Russian opposition leader and activists held before Putin inauguration
* Putin easily won re-election in March * Due to be inaugurated for a fourth term on Monday * Opponents liken him to autocratic tsar * Supporters laud him as father of the nation Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and around 1,600 anti-Kremlin activists were detained by police on Saturday during street protests against Vladimir Putin ahead...
Putin 4.0 to launch amid crackdown on opposition
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s victory in the March election was never in question and the prospect of his inauguration has generated little excitement © Sputnik/AFP/File / Michael KlimentyevMoscow, Russian Federation, May 6 – Vladimir Putin will on Monday be inaugurated for his fourth Kremlin term under the shadow of hugely strained...
Nearly 1,600 detained in protests across Russia
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained along with nearly 1,600 of his supporters yesterday during nationwide rallies against Vladimir Putin as police and paramilitary activists used force to break up rallies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.Riot police beat protesters with truncheons, dragged them along the ground and threw them into...
World: How Trump’s fixer built a shadowy business empire
NEW YORK — He was a personal-injury lawyer who often worked out of taxi offices scattered around New York City. Before he joined the Trump Organization and became Trump’s lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen was a hard-edge personal-injury attorney and businessman. Now a significant portion of his quarter-century business record is under the...
Kvitova battles past Buzarnescu to win first Prague title
Petra Kvitova won her third title of the year as she fought back from a set down to beat Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu 4-6 6-2 6-3 in the Prague Open final yesterday. The Czech second seed got off to a flying start and took a 4-1 lead in the opening set but Buzarnescu battled back to break Kvitova’s dominance, winning the next five games to...
Putin opponents protest across Russia before his inauguration
* Putin won landslide re-election in March * Is due to be inaugurated for a fourth term on Monday * Opponents liken him to an autocratic Tsar * Supporters laud him as father of the nation Critics of Vladimir Putin took to the streets of Russia on Saturday ahead of his inauguration for a fourth presidential term to register their opposition to...
Russia’s Opposition Leader, Navalny Detained With Supporters
Russian police officers detain a protester during an unauthorized anti-Putin rally called by opposition leader Alexei Navalny on May 5, 2018 in Moscow, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term. Vasily MAXIMOV / AFP Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was detained along with more than a thousand of his...
Ukraine, the place Golda Meir fled from, now embraces her as a hero
Born 120 years ago, the fourth prime minister of the state of Israel is now celebrated in a land she once fled from in fear of pogroms and hunger. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Big Oil investors show they want more than just profit
Big Oil’s investors took a bruising for nearly three years as oil prices bumped along decade lows. Now they want payback.They’re willing to punish companies that don’t meet their standards, and their standards are awfully high. On their wish list: immediate returns, spending discipline, and, at the same time, more production....
