Tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets since Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in a widely contested election earlier this month. But it’s women that have been at the helm of a campaign to unseat the authoritarian ruler since he forced his opponents out of the race. When Lukashenko launched a crackdown on his

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French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said their countries are ready to provide treatment and assistance to politician Alexei Navalny. They spoke about this at a joint press conference. “We are ready to offer all the necessary assistance to Alexei Navalny and his relatives regarding health, shelter and protection,” said Macron.  Navalny’s associates turned to the Kremlin for

CCTV video shows who gives coma-causing tea to Navalny (Video) The politician’s allies assume that he was poisoned with something mixed into his tea. Navalny is holding the cup of tea at Tomsk airport / Screenshot A CCTV video has captured the moment showing who gave Russian opposition politician, fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin Alexei Navalny a cup of tea

Doctors of the Omsk hospital, where Alexei Navalny was hospitalized, refuse to transport him to another clinic, claiming that he is in a non-transportable state. FBK lawyer Ivan Zhdanov announced this on Twitter. The head of the Alliance of Doctors, Anastasia Vasilyeva, previously told Meduza that Navalny’s representatives are trying to arrange for him to be sent to Moscow. Press Secretary of the

Kharkiv IT-Cluster public organization offered support to Belarusian IT-specialists who decide to move to Ukraine. “Kharkiv IT community sincerely empathizes with Belarusian colleagues who are forced to be in unstable conditions and psychological pressure. Kharkiv IT-Cluster understands that in such conditions it is difficult not only for IT-business to maintain stability, but also to live and work,” the organization said

    Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal looks forward to further cooperation with the United States in the implementation of projects aimed at the economic and social development of Ukraine. PM Shmyhal made a corresponding statement during a meeting with representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government portal informs.

Belarus has opened a criminal investigation into attempts by the opposition to “seize power” after President Alexander Lukashenko’s opponents created a Coordination Council to oversee a peaceful transition following disputed elections. Strongman Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years, claimed a sixth term in elections this month that sparked historic protests and a brutal police crackdown condemned by

Kommersant FM : Does the Kremlin monitor the situation with the poisoning of Alexei Navalny? Dmitry Peskov : Yes, the media post a lot of information about this, so we also, in fact, read this information. We know that he is in serious condition. Doctors do whatever is necessary. The best doctors were attracted to Omsk. As far as we know, also from media reports, they

    Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was unconscious and on a ventilator in a Siberian hospital Thursday after falling ill from suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman said. Navalny, 44, started feeling unwell while on a return flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, said on Twitter. The plane later made an

19 August 2020, 15:11 | Updated: 19 August 2020, 15:16 By Adrian Sherling https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/evidence-report-russian-collusion/ Donald Trump insists there was “no collusion” with Russia, but a report yesterday said the opposite. Luke Harding told a story that James O’Brien said should “blow the lids off everything”. A Senate report into the links between the President and the Kremlin showed what was,

20.08.2020 10:12 Investors from Norway and Austria plan to build a computer data center in Zaporizhzhia region, which will become one of the largest in Europe, and capacities for electrolytic hydrogen production. On August 19, representatives of H2 LLC signed memoranda with National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (NNEGC Energoatom) and PJSC Ukrhydroenergo [the leading producer of electrical power

When Navalny was admitted to hospital, he was diagnosed with “acute poisoning with psychedelics,” a source in the Russian law enforcement said MOSCOW, August 20. /TASS/. The theory that Russian blogger Alexei Navalny may have been deliberately poisoned is not being considered now, a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies told TASS on Thursday. “This theory is not being

      Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Senik and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Ukraine Mohammed Al-Mussher discussed steps to intensify a political dialogue between the two countries. “On August 19, 2020, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Senik met with Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Ukraine Mohammed Al-Mussher. In order to

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (DARIA LITVINOVA)August 20, 2020, 1:17 AM EDTUpdated on August 20, 2020, 2:42 AM EDT Bloomberg Moscow (AP) — Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokeswoman said Thursday morning. The 44-year-old foe of

Mitch Prothero Ukraine’s intelligence service tricked 32 Russian mercenaries into confessing their roles in the 2014 Donbass war and nearly flying into Ukrainian custody, according to explosive reports reported Tuesday by Ukrainian media. The Ukrainians invented a fake security contract and extracted confessions from the mercenaries at the job interview, then put them on a flight that would take them

20.08.2020 | Halya Coynash TERRORISM Exhumation 18.08.2020 Photo National Police A grave has been exhumed in Sloviansk containing the remains of people killed during the months in 2014 when Sloviansk was under the control of ‘former’ Russian military intelligence officer Igor Girkin and his militants.  The police reported on 18 August 2020 that the grave had been uncovered as part of a