MOSCOW (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered Alexei Navalny to be remanded in custody for 30 days, the Russian opposition leader’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. The ruling concluded an hours-long court hearing set up at a police precinct where the politician was held since his arrest at a Moscow airport Sunday. Navalny […]
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Poisoned Putin Critic Navalny Jailed For 30 Days In Russia, Spokeswoman Says
UN must lead battle against ‘pandemic’ of fake news & disinformation – Russia’s FM spokeswoman
“Our delegation proposes the UN to define a strategy for battling fake news and disinformation. Russia will be ready to fully support this initiative which is extremely important for developing a healthy environment for news reporting,” Zakharova said at the 39th Session of the COI on Tuesday. The “mass production” of fake news is the […]
Ex-DEA Spokeswoman: ‘Marijuana Is Safe’ — Kept Illegal Because It’s a ‘Cash Cow’
Before the heroin epidemic became a nationwide problem, claiming thousands of lives, Plano, Texas, was already entrenched. And like many of the places caught in the crosshairs of the continuing heroin crisis, Plano is the last place that one would expect to be swept into the opioid tidal wave. We’ve recently interviewed Texas-native Belita Nelson, […]
Lockdown lifted at University of Toronto after police fail to find ‘suspicious’ man
Earlier, a video posted on twitter by @camilacore showed police vehicles, officers, and a fire truck at the scene. A separate arrest had been made by the police during the lockdown. The man already taken into custody was handcuffed and walked out of the university’s faculty of law building before being put into a police […]
Russia, US truce initiative in Syria ‘may be last chance to stop violence’ – opposition
The leaders of several Syrian opposition groups as well as public and religious figures voiced support for the ongoing peace conference in Geneva, and called on all patriots of Syria to participate in the UN-backed reconciliation process. They said the fact that the truce is holding in the country gives cause for optimism, but more […]
Islamic State attacks Syrian Kurdish settlements amid proclaimed ceasefire
The IS terrorists attacked the towns of Tel Abyad and Suluk, which are controlled by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), early on Saturday, YPG spokesman, Redur Xelil, as well as Turkish security sources told Reuters. ISIS & al-Nusra make ceasefire unlikely in Aleppo, Syrian troops tell RT The YPG and Kurdish internal security forces managed […]
5 best times Russian diplomacy worked
However isolated some might like to picture Russia as being, its leader and top diplomats have done a good job in collectively working on and solving some of the world’s most pressing issues. READ MORE: 2015: The year Russia told America ‘enough’ In 2013, the international community was on the edge of another western military […]
Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the meeting of the so-called Crimea Platform in Kiev
August 25, 2021 https://www.mid.ru/en/main_en We have taken note of an event that was held in Kiev on August 23 and was entitled a “Crimea Platform Summit.” The stated aim of this political project, developed with active involvement of government experts from the United States, the UK and the European Union and funded by the United […]