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Kremlin critic Navalny released after 15 days in custody
Mar07

Kremlin critic Navalny released after 15 days in custody

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks free after serving 15-day sentence …read more Source:...

Russia Today vs. Ukraine tomorrow
Mar06

Russia Today vs. Ukraine tomorrow

Sharifulin Valery/TASS/CP When an official Ukrainian contingent visited Washington late last year to lobby for American support, it came bearing gifts: photographic proof of Russian troops in Ukraine. The group, including two prominent military commanders-turned-MPs, presented the packet of images to U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, who, in turn, presented...

Ukraine says it is pulling back rocket launchers from front line in accordance with ceasefire agreement
Mar06

Ukraine says it is pulling back rocket launchers from front line in accordance with ceasefire agreement

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian military officials say government forces are withdrawing heavy rocket launchers from the front line with Russian-backed separatists in accordance with last month’s cease-fire accord. Military spokesman Col. Andriy Lysenko said the Uragan launchers were being pulled back by 35 kilometres from the line of contact....

Anna Duritskaya, witness to Boris Nemtsov’s murder, gets death threats
Mar06

Anna Duritskaya, witness to Boris Nemtsov’s murder, gets death threats

Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine.​ …read more Source:...

Sole witness in Nemtsov’s slaying receives death threats
Mar06

Sole witness in Nemtsov’s slaying receives death threats

The General Prosecutor’s office in Kiev said that Anna Duritskaya is being provided with protection …read more Source: The Globe and...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released
Mar06

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released

MOSCOW – Leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was released Friday after spending 15 days in custody and vowed that he and his supporters will not be intimidated by the slaying of a top Kremlin critic. Navalny, the driving force behind the 2011-2012 mass protests in Moscow, said the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov will not...

Witness in Nemtsov slaying receives death threats: officials
Mar06

Witness in Nemtsov slaying receives death threats: officials

Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine. …read more Source: Global...

Witness in Boris Nemtsov murder receiving death threats
Mar06

Witness in Boris Nemtsov murder receiving death threats

Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...

Britain: EU to prepare possible new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
Mar06

Britain: EU to prepare possible new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

‘We will prepare possible new sanctions, which could be imposed quickly if there is further Russian aggression of if the Minsk agreement is not complied with,’ Britain’s foreign minister said …read more Source: The Globe and...

A good man in bad times: Remembering Boris Nemtsov
Mar06

A good man in bad times: Remembering Boris Nemtsov

For those who knew him, the photo of Boris Nemtsov dead on the Moscow Bridge, just yards from the Kremlin walls, is heartbreaking. For Russians who remember the heady days of the early 1990s when anything seemed possible — days which Nemtsov once symbolized as much as any single public figure could — it would be a harsh reminder of how dark and...