Russia

A new report focuses on Wagner's operations in Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic.

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How 'blood gold' from Africa is funding Russia's war on Ukraine

5:00am December 27, 2023

According to a new report, the Wagner Group has laundered some $2.5 billion to Russia since its full scale invasion of Ukraine last year, in an effort to support the war effort.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in Moscow on Feb. 29, 2020. Associates say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

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Missing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is located in an Arctic penal colony

10:04am December 25, 2023

by The Associated Press

Associates of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

Yekaterina Duntsova looks on after submitting her documents as a presidential candidate for the upcoming election. She secured a nomination from a group of more than 500 supporters as required by Russian electoral law.

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A pro-peace Russian presidential hopeful is blocked by election commission

1:37pm December 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

Yekaterina Duntsova is a former journalist-turned-politician who opposes the Ukraine war and hopes to challenge Putin, but her efforts to run stalled after election officials rejected her nomination.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his combined call-in-show and annual press conference, on Dec. 14, in Moscow, Russia.

In a 4-hour press conference, a confident Putin vows the Ukraine war will go on

1:28pm December 14, 2023

by Charles Maynes

Russian President Vladimir Putin resumed his traditional year-end press conference, after canceling last year, when Russia was doing badly on the battlefield. He combined it with a call-in program.

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Utility workers north of Lyman, Ukraine, work on restringing electrical poles in an effort to brace the country's energy system against another winter of expected Russian attacks.

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Ukraine is trying to keep its lights on this winter. Russia aims to turn them off

11:40am December 13, 2023

Utility workers have raced to repair Ukraine's damaged energy grid. Russia has resumed targeted attacks on Ukraine's energy system — and parts of it may be more vulnerable than ever, experts warn.

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An Israeli air strike damaged this ambulance in front of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 3. Israel said the vehicle was "identified ... as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell" and that a "number of Hamas terrorist operatives were killed." Hamas denied the presence of fighters in the ambulance convoy, calling the claims "baseless."

Attacks on health care are on track to hit a record high in 2023. Can it be stopped?

5:11am December 13, 2023

by Ari Daniel

The targeting of hospitals and medical workers is a fact of modern warfare — in Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza and Israel. International law say such attacks are unacceptable. Are there any consequences?

A screen shows jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as he arrives to listen to a hearing on an appeal lodged against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism-linked charges, at a court in Moscow on Sept. 26.

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has gone missing, his spokesperson says

2:06pm December 11, 2023

by Charles Maynes

Lawyers of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny say they have not been able to confirm his whereabouts for several days, raising concern among his allies for his health and safety.

Dmytro Orlov, the exiled mayor of Enerhodar, in his office at a community center in Zaporizhzhia.

With an inconclusive counteroffensive, Ukraine looks toward an anxious winter

5:00am December 11, 2023

by Joanna Kakissis

Ukraine's government acknowledges the gains in its most recent counteroffensive have been small. And it worries Western allies are distracted by the war between Israel and Hamas.

Flag bearers Sofya Velikaya and Maxim Mikhaylov of Team ROC (Russian Olympic Committee) participate in the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, on July 23, 2021.

Russians and Belarusians can compete in the 2024 Olympics — as neutral athletes

2:51pm December 09, 2023

by Erika Ryan

The International Olympic Committee says that qualifying athletes from the two countries will be allowed to compete in the Paris Games as "Individual Neutral Athletes."

A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with a picture of North Korea's latest satellite-carrying rocket launch, at a railway station in Seoul on Nov. 22.

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What North Korea's shift toward Russia means for its global strategy

5:00am December 07, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

Since the collapse of nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington in 2019, analysts see a major shift in North Korea's foreign relations. It has turned increasingly to Moscow.

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