“Anger in sports is important,” Lukashenko said. “If you have already qualified and are going there in a neutral status, hit them in the face, show them that you are a real Belarusian,” he continued. Lukashenko has not clarified whether his comments were made in a spirit of sporting competitiveness, or if the implication was … Read more
The effort to blame-shift is crucial for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has carefully cultivated a strongman image, given his regime had dismissed U.S. warnings about a potential impending terror attack in Moscow. On Sunday, Russian state media published footage of what it said were the interrogations of the four Tajiks who Moscow says carried … Read more
Before Putin, there was Stalin. The Soviet dictator stayed in power in Moscow for three decades before dying in 1953. Elections during his reign went as one might expect: high turnout and 100 percent of the votes for the unopposed communist autocrat. With his victory over the weekend, Putin moved one step closer to nudging … Read more
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference (MSC), on the day it was announced that Alexei Navalny died by the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence, in Munich, southern Germany on February 16, 2024. Kai Pfaffenbach | Afp | Getty … Read more
Lukashenko, 69, has been running Belarus since 1994. He is a close ally of Vladimir Putin and once said he regards the Russian leader as “his elder brother.” He also warned there would be changes before the 2025 elections take place. “There is still a year ahead before the presidential elections. A lot can change. … Read more
“My main task is for our family to stay the same, despite everything,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. Behind the scenes, however, those who knew the couple well said Navalnaya not only shared her husband’s views, but also helped shape them. Telepathic connection “At every stage of Alexei’s career, Yulia has always been by his side,” … Read more
While the European Parliament was unable to send a delegation to monitor polling stations as it has in previous years, the chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s foreign affairs committee, Grigory Karasin, told local media the polls were being organized effectively and could even act as a model for Russia’s own presidential election later this … Read more
Dozens of Ukrainian children from a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine were taken to Belarus and sent to “emergency survival training” with the Belarusian military, according to local media. The Belarus 4 Mogilev state television channel reported on Wednesday that 35 children from the city of Antratsyt in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has occupied since 2014, … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Tatyana Margolin is co-founder of STROIKA, with a mission to reverse the tide of rising authoritarianism by building, resourcing and connecting resistance movements around the globe. One can reliably gauge the latest geopolitical upheaval by who is sleeping on the red pullout couch in … Read more
