Angry protesters have clashed with heavily-armed police as major anti-Kremlin demonstrations broke out across Russia on Saturday in support of jailed Putin-critic Alexei Navalny. Protests against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin took place in temperatures as low as minus 60F (51C) as police forcibly detained supporters of...
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Russian teen shows Alexei Navalny protesters how to ‘sound American’
A teenager is teaching other Russians how to ‘sound like an American’ when confronted by police at protests tomorrow against the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Law enforcement agencies are preparing to suppress nationwide demonstrations after 44-year-old Navalny urged supporters to flood the streets...
Russian Grand Duke George Romanov announces engagement to long term girlfriend Rebecca Bettarini
Russian Grand Duke George Romanov, 39, who’s distantly related to the Queen announces engagement to long term girlfriend Italian writer Rebecca Bettarini Grand Duke George Romanov, 39, has announced engagement to girlfriend, 35, He proposed to Italian lobbyist and writer Rebecca Bettarini in December Ruby...
MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko says he’s ‘getting better’ after being hospitalised with Covid-19
MMA heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko says he’s ‘getting better’ and has a ‘good feeling’ after being hospitalised with Covid-19 in Moscow Heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko was hospitalised with coronavirus The 44-year-old has taken to Instagram to say that he is ‘getting better’ Emelianenko is considered...
Now that’s what you call ICEOLATION!
BOOK OF THE WEEK Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World By Andrea Pitzer (Simon & Schuster £20, 320pp) The name of William Barents isn’t that familiar to us these days beyond perhaps a line of type on your atlas, marking a patch of blue north...
Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee asks FBI to investigate Parler’s role in Capitol riot
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has asked the FBI to investigate the role that Parler, a social media website and app popular with conservatives, played in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat who chairs the...
Miracle baby born to Covid victim is at the centre of a tug-of-love
The authorities in Russia are to decide the fate of a tragic miracle baby born to a woman who died next day from Covid-19. Divorcee Svetlana Sorochinskaya, 36, had desperately wanted a child and secretly chose a work colleague to father her baby on the...
Teenagers arrested for plotting a terrorist attack on a school in Russia
Teenagers arrested for plotting a terrorist attack on a school in Russia Teenagers accused of planning a terror attack on a school have been arrested The two suspects are from the city of Lyubertsy in Moscow Oblast, Russia An interrogation of the two suspects is now...
‘They got the laptop’: Feds release evidence suggesting Capitol rioter did steal Pelosi’s laptop
Prosecutors have released a new photograph that they say is from Riley Williams’ camera phone and shows the moment Nancy Pelosi‘s laptop was stolen from her office during the January 6 riots. Williams’ former boyfriend told investigators that the 22-year-old stole the HP machine and...
Rival Navalny claims theatre, casino and strip club inside Putin’s £1billion palace
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was arrested on his return to Russia last weekend, has claimed a strip club, casino and a theatre are among a series of luxurious rooms inside President Putin’s £1billion ‘palace’. Navalny claims to be in possession of leaked floor plans...