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Poland seeks arrest of Russian air traffic controllers linked to President Kaczynski’s plane crash

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Thursday, September 17, 2020 10:00:00 AM – UA Wire The investigative team of the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office appealed to the District Court of Warsaw with a request for the temporary arrest of three Russian air traffic controllers who were working at Smolensk airport when the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in 2010, a spokeswoman for Poland’s National Prosecutor’s

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Update: Navalny’s Team Says Water Bottle With Traces Of Novichok Found In His Hotel Room In Tomsk

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September 17, 2020 09:20 GMT UPDATED September 17, 2020 14:57 GMT By RFE/RL’s Russian Service Associates of Aleksei Navalny say traces of the nerve agent used to poison the Russian opposition politician were found on a water bottle in the hotel room he was staying in in the Russian city of Tomsk. Navalny, 44, felt unwell while on a plane on his way from

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‘In Russia, it’s either Putin or Navalny’

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3:41 pm, September 16, 2020 Source: Meduza ‘New People’ party leader Alexey Nechayev on the recent elections, building coalitions, and changing the system from the inside. Alexey Nechayev, the founder of the beauty and apparel company Faberlic, is the leader of “New People” — a newly established political party, which managed to win seats in four regional parliaments during the September

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Former Athletics Chief Guilty of Russian Doping Corruption

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16 September – The Moscow Times The former head of athletics’ world governing body, Lamine Diack, was on Wednesday found guilty by a French court of corruption in covering up Russian doping cases and sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended. Diack, an 87-year-old Senegalese who led the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), now renamed

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Putin accuses Ukraine of selective fulfillment of Donbas commitments

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The President of the Russian Federation paid special attention to “Kyiv’s attempts to interpret the Minsk agreements in its own way” Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of taking a selective approach to fulfilling its commitments in resolving the conflict in Donbas during a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. This was reported by the Kremlin’s press service.

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Ukraine convenes TCG meeting over puppet “DPR” leader’s threats to open fire on JFO units in Donbas

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22:54, 05 September 2020 – UNIAN The Ukrainian delegation will try to prevent shelling of JFO unit. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Ukraine is initiating an extraordinary meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on Donbas settlement over threats voiced by the self-styled “leader” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) Denis Pushilin to open fire on the positions

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Russia imposes sanctions against Poroshenko, Vakarchuk, other Ukrainians (List)

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23:55, 04 September 2020 – UNIAN The relevant resolution was published on the official portal of legal information of the Russian Federation. The Russian government has expanded the list of Ukrainian citizens against whom special economic measures are being introduced, which includes Ukrainian top officials, Members of Parliament, businessmen, etc. The relevant resolution was published on the official portal of legal

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US troops deploy to Lithuania during heightened tensions in Eastern Europe

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3 September 2020 – By Caitlin McFall | Fox News ‘All the exercises taking place in the country are of a defensive nature and are not directed against any state’ The U.S. Army will initiate on Friday the deployment of about 500 troops to Lithuania as part of a military operation, though government officials have said the strategy has nothing to do with recent political

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Kremlin says Germany didn’t inform Moscow of data showing opposition figure Navalny was poisoned with Novichok-like nerve agent

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Warning! This article contains a statement from Peskov. Moscow didn’t receive any new data on the poisoning of Alexey Navalny from Berlin. That’s according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov after German authorities announced that tests found a Novichok-like nerve agent in his system. “No, we didn’t receive this information,” Peskov responded when addressed on the issue. The opposition figure was evacuated to

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Russian blogger, anti-Kremlin activist attacked outside his apartment

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31 August, 2020 – By Bradford Betz | Fox News Yegor Zhukov was arrested in widespread crackdowns on demonstrators last summer. A Russian blogger and vocal critic of Vladimir Putin was taken to the hospital late Sunday after an assault outside his Moscow apartment that left him bloodied and bruised, according to reports. Yegor Zhukov, 22, is one of Russia’s most outspoken critics of

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ICU officials refuse to admit Navalny’s own wife, demanding to see their marriage certificate

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7:56 am, August 20, 2020 : Meduza Officials at the intensive care unit in Omsk where opposition politician Alexey Navalny is now fighting for his life have refused to admit his wife, Yulia, or his personal physician, Anastasia Vasileva, both of whom rushed to the hospital from Moscow.  According to Navalny’s press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, doctors initially told Yulia Navalnaya that she couldn’t

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navalny: ‘He needs to be transferred to Europe’

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5:40 am, August 20, 2020 : Meduza ‘Meduza’ interviews Navalny’s physician about the opposition politician’s apparent poisoning in Siberia and what should happen now. On August 20, a plane carrying Anti-Corruption Foundation founder Alexey Navalny was forced to make an emergency landing in Omsk after Navalny became violently ill during the flight. He was immediately hospitalized. He reportedly lost consciousness and

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Lukashenko says Belarusian army on full alert on western border

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20:55, 18 August 2020 – UNIAN He admitted special operations forces were involved in the dispersal of protests in his country. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says units of the Armed Forces of Belarus are on full alert on the western border. While meeting with members of the Security Council of Belarus, he also expressed concern over the situation along the

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Police, protesters clash after Belarus presidential vote

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Demonstrators run away from police as they gather to protest against a result of the Belarusian presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. Police and protesters clashed in Belarus’ capital and the major city of Brest on Sunday after the presidential election in which the authoritarian leader who has ruled for a quarter-century sought a sixth term in office.

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Emine Dzheppar: Russia trying to turn Sea of Azov into ‘its own lake’

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08.08.2020 14:23 – Ukrinform Russia has militarized Crimea, increased its military presence, keeping six submarines in the Black Sea, and wants to turn the Sea of Azov into “its own lake.” “Today, Russia wants to turn the Sea of Azov into its own lake. As far as we know, Russia now has six submarines in the Black Sea. Crimea has

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