Section: The United Kingdom
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Ukraine imposes sanctions on Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk
Leader of Kyiv’s main pro-Russia party and seven others targeted for allegedly ‘financing terrorism’ …read more Source:: Financial...
The Kremlin’s criticism of Alexi Navalny is making him more popular
FIRST THEY ignored him. Then they smeared his underpants with Novichok, a nerve agent. When he survived that, they jailed him. And now they are trying to demonise him. After years of refusing to utter his name in public for fear of making him seem important, the Kremlin is levelling its most intense propaganda at Alexei Navalny, Russia’s...
Putin accused of backing torture dungeons in Ukraine dubbed ‘place where people disappear’
VLADIMIR PUTIN has been accused of supporting separatist groups in Ukraine that use old nuclear bunkers as torture rooms. …read more Source::...
Ukraine: Pro-Putin thugs ‘torture’ prisoners in old nuclear bunkers
Photographs have been released allegedly showing chilling torture dungeons where prisoners of Russian-backed rebels are mutilated with surgical tools. …read more Source:: Daily...
Ukraine state auctions debtors’ underwear
Impoverished Ukrainians’ underwear is among items sold off by official debt collectors. …read more Source::...
Ukraine man invents murder in attempt to get police to clear snow
Man unhappy with state of his road told officers they would have to come in a snowplough to arrest himA Ukrainian man confessed to a fictitious murder in the hope police would clear his snow-covered road when they came to arrest him, regional authorities have said.The man called police on Saturday evening to tell them he had killed his...
Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden family, new transcript reveals
‘Get someone to investigate this,’ Giuliani tells two Ukrainian officials in 40-minute call obtained by Time magazineA new transcript has surfaced of the former Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, putting pressure on the Ukrainian government to open an investigation into the Biden family.The transcript of a 40-minute call between Giuliani and two...
Brits facing coldest night of the winter with temperatures set to drop to -20C
The Met Office has warned that weather in the UK may become colder than during the first Beast from the East over the next couple of days as freezing air blows in from Ukraine …read more Source::...
Why the Republican Party can’t – or won’t – dump Trump
With all but five Republican senators voting to scrap his second impeachment trial, the former president’s grip on the GOP is stronger than ever. Donald Trump is out of the White House, but his power over the Republican Party appears to be intact. On 8 February Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial will start. The first time Trump...
On the steppe
Torn between China and Russia, and haunted by the ghosts of its communist past, Kazakhstan has taken an authoritarian turn. Just before Christmas 2020, the Russian Duma passed a number of amendments tightening its notorious “Foreign Agent” law, which targets civil society groups receiving charitable funding from abroad. The label “foreign agent”...
