The Ukraine-neighbouring country started the process for membership earlier this year. The next step is a referendum. A Russian oligarch has other ideas.
Alexey Navalny lampooned Margarita Simonyan for years with the nickname “beaver-eater” after a 2012 social media post where she outlined her plans to boil up a beaver head for broth.
Nine-year-old Ivan enjoys spending time pretending to be characters from Disney cartoons,which he is only able to do alone or with his minders. Vladimir prefers Russian cartoons.
Anwar Ibrahim,in Moscow,said it would be to Malaysia’s benefit if Russia agreed to ‘collaborate in all fields of endeavour’.
With two months until election day,the US Justice Department has also warned of “increasingly aggressive Iranian activity” - including a recent attempt to hack into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The Russian-born author and columnist also said Putin would not negotiate a peace with Ukraine unless defeated on the battlefield.
The Kremlin’s messaging is directed at the local Russian population and suggests that Moscow expects the surprise occupation of its territory to last for months.
“As strange as it sounds,what I want to be doing most of all right now is playing cricket. But I have a sniper’s rifle in my hands right now instead of a bat,and a grenade instead of a ball.”
A couple planted as sleeper spies in Slovenia were caught in December 2022. They were sent to Moscow in a prisoner exchange last week.
Vladimir Putin wiped tears from the face of the daughter of two sleeper agents and greeted them – in Spanish.
Twenty-four prisoners were freed in a multi-country exchange on Friday,the largest exchange between Russia and the West in years.