Russia

May 3, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 3, 2017

TODAY: Putin has discordant meeting with Germany’s Merkel, denies election meddling, talks to Trump on Syria; military expert claims Russia “seeding” nuclear bombs off US coastline; Le Pen is Russian favourite; Navalny files complaint against Mosc...
May 2, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 2, 2017

TODAY: Man who filmed Navalny chemical attack knew about it in advance, Internet users sleuth possible identity of the perpetrator, Navalny and Fyodorova both fear permanent loss of sight; conservatives push for greater Internet controls to quash ...
April 14, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 14, 2017

TODAY: Kremlin slams ECHR ruling that Russia was at fault in 2003 terror attack; Prokhorov to sell RBC; Novaya Gazeta receives threats for covering Chechnya’s persecution of gay men; Mexican journalists accuses Russia of political meddling; Wikile...
April 13, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 13, 2017

TODAY: Putin and Lavrov meet with Tillerson, declare relations to be at a low, worse since Trump took office; Trump reverses position on NATO; Navalny calls for second round of Russia-wide protests; Russia uses UN veto on Syria chemical attack res...
April 12, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 12, 2017

TODAY: Irkutsk protest organisers detained by National Guard; Navalny to continue organising protests, says poverty makes people brave; Volodin as Putin successor? UK says Russia interfered in Brexit vote; no G7 sanctions for Russia; Chechen men s...
April 7, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 7, 2017

TODAY: Thousands march in Moscow in honour of St Petersburg bomb victims; journalist accuses pro-Kremlin activists of “grief factory” actions; FSB says defuses third bomb, 8 arrested so far; European Parliament condemns arrest and detention of Nav...
April 6, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 6, 2017

TODAY: Medvedev’s approval ratings fall 10% in wake of fraud allegations; LGBT network receives appeals from men in Chechnya under persecution; Putin well accustomed to brushing off vulgarities; Jehovah’s Witnesses may be outlawed in Russia entire...
April 4, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 4, 2017

TODAY: Bomb in St Petersburg metro kills 11 and injures 50, Medvedev condemns “terror attack”; Putin and Lukashenko resolve energy disputes; Lithuania says Russia is a threat, can mount Baltics attack within 24 hours; Fancy Bear hacks Athletics Fe...
March 27, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 27, 2017

TODAY: Hundreds aggressively detained as thousands gather across Russia in protest against corruption and President Vladimir Putin’s regime, Navalny and 16 of his colleagues among those held by police; Voronenkov’s killer identified by Ukraine as ...
March 24, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 24, 2017

TODAY: Former Duma lawmaker and witness in Yanukovich treason trial gunned down in Kiev, prompting accusations of Russian state terror; Kremlin refuses Ukraine’s offer to beam in its Eurovision entry by satellite; police warn citizens against taki...