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Aleksei Navalny’s Allies Confirm His Death
[ad_1] Aleksei A. Navalny’s political allies on Saturday confirmed his death, saying that his mother had received an official notification of it. Kira Yarmysh, Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, said in a statement on X that Russian investigators had transferred Mr. Navalny’s body from a penal colony in the Arctic to the nearby town of Salekhard, where it is being examined. “We…
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With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return?
[ad_1] There was one question that Russians repeatedly asked the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic penal colony on Friday, and he confessed that he found it a little annoying. Why, after surviving a fatal poisoning attempt widely blamed on the Kremlin, had he returned to Russia from his extended convalescence abroad to face certain…
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U.S. Designates Houthis a Terrorist Group
[ad_1] The State Department on Friday designated the Houthis as a terrorist organization, following through on a mid-January warning to crack down on the Yemen-based militant group. The action officially labels the Houthis as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, a step that gives the United States new powers to crack down on the Iran-backed Houthis’ access to the global…
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Tucker Carlson’s Lesson in the Perils of Giving Airtime to Vladimir Putin
[ad_1] Tucker Carlson left Moscow more than a week ago, riding high from an interview with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that returned him to the spotlight after his abrupt cancellation by Fox News last spring. But the interview with the wartime autocrat, mocked in various corners of the political-media world for its soft touch, continues to have a…
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In Prison or Out, Navalny Was the Thorn in Putin’s Side
[ad_1] The death of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Aleksei A. Navalny, at a remote Arctic prison on Friday ended one of the most audacious political careers of modern times and left wartime Russia without its most charismatic antiwar voice. Mr. Navalny, whose death was reported by Russian authorities, stood as the most outspoken critic of President Vladimir V. Putin…
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Avdiivka, Longtime Ukraine Stronghold Ukraine, Falls to Russia
[ad_1] Ukraine ordered the complete withdrawal from the ruined city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine before dawn on Saturday, surrendering a city that had been a military stronghold for the better part of a decade, in the face of withering Russian bombardment and relentless assault. “Based on the operational situation around Avdiivka, in order to avoid encirclement and preserve the…
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Biden Condemns ‘Putin and His Thugs’ for Navalny’s Death
[ad_1] President Biden blamed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia personally on Friday for the reported death of the imprisoned Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, and cited the case in pressing House Republicans to approve military aid to Ukraine in its war with Moscow. But while he once threatened to impose “devastating” consequences on Mr. Putin if Mr. Navalny died…
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‘Shawshank’ in China, as You’ve Never Seen It Before
[ad_1] When a stage production of “The Shawshank Redemption” opened recently in China, it was cast entirely with Western actors speaking fluent Mandarin Chinese. But that may have been the least surprising part of the show. That the show — an adaptation of the Stephen King novella that became one of the most beloved movies of all time — was…
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Who Was Aleksei Navalny?
[ad_1] Aleksei Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia while enduring arrests, assaults and a near-fatal poisoning, died Friday in a Russian prison. He was 47. [ad_2] Source link
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Navalny’s Wife Says Putin Will ‘Bear Responsibility’ if Husband Is Dead
[ad_1] Sitting in the warren of rooms in a hipster brick Moscow office building where Aleksei A. Navalny ran both his political movement and his anti-corruption organization, I asked him about running for president in 2024. There had been a series of small but widespread protests across Russia against corruption that spring of 2017, prompted by his investigation that revealed…
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