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NEW DELHI: Russia has accused Ukraine of engaging in ‘terrorist activities’ to disrupt its presidential election, with former President Dmitry Medvedev condemning protesters as ‘traitors’ for attempting to sabotage voting booths and ballot boxes. The ongoing Ukraine war has overshadowed the election, expected to secure President Vladimir Putin another six years in power, amidst sporadic
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NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to continue his rule for another six years after a three-day with limited opposition. The election, held in a controlled environment, saw no public criticism of Putin or his actions in Ukraine. Putin’s political rival, Alexei Navalny, passed away recently, leaving other critics either in jail or
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NEW DELHI: Thousands of Russians gathered in Moscow on Friday to mourn the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Navalny’s mother and father attended a small funeral in a Moscow church, surrounded by police. A photograph of Navalny’s body in a flower-laden coffin circulated on social media. Inside the church, an Orthodox priest conducted a
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MOSCOW: Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral Friday in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. His supporters say several churches in Moscow refused to hold the service before Navalny’s
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MOSCOW: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by attempting to coerce his mother into agreeing to a secret funeral following his death in a penal colony. In a video released on Saturday, Navalnaya revealed that Navalny’s mother, who desires to have her son’s
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Police said Tuesday they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in Spain is that of a Russian defector who escaped across the frontline and into Ukraine last year with an army helicopter. The body was found Feb 13 in La Cala, near the eastern port city of Alicante, according to Civil Guard police.
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Russia’s main security agency said on Tuesday that it had arrested a dual citizen of Russia and US on accusations of committing state treason by raising funds for Ukraine. Federal Security Service (FSB), identified the detainee as a 33-year-old woman who lives in Los Angeles. It said that she had raised money for a Ukrainian
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NEW DELHI: French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the launch of Classes Internationales (international classes), a special programme for Indian students to learn French for a year in France before pursuing the degree of their choice, during his state visit to India last week, according to press release by the French Embassy in New Delhi.This
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LONDON: King Charles‘s former butler, Grant Harrold said that the monarch has a cheeky sense of humour as he gives ‘bizarre’ presents to his staffers on Christmas Eve.In a conversation with the Mirror on Wednesday, the etiquette expert said “One time he left a tin of salmon and one year I got a salt and
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AMSTERDAM: A 32-year-old student was arrested after a “targeted” shooting rampage in the Dutch city of Rotterdam left three people dead on Thursday, CNN reported citing local authorities.According to police spokesman Fred Westerbeke, the shooting first erupted in a private home on the city’s Heiman Dullaert square.The suspected gunman fatally shot a 39-year-old woman and
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