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April 22, 2021 at 10:32 am

Doctors for jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny urge him to end hunger strike after medical exams

MOSCOW — Doctors for jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed Thursday for him to end his more than three-week hunger strike after prison authorities...

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February 14, 2021 at 10:40 am

Russians grumbled over last year’s mild winter – now Moscow has a ‘snow apocalyse’

MOSCOW - The snow started falling late Thursday, sticking to car windshields and hiding walking paths. By Friday morning, apartment windows had a thick white...

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People clash with police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. Thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the wave of nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. Hundreds were detained by police. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) XSG121 XSG121

January 31, 2021 at 6:28 am

Russia cracks down on Navalny protests, locking down city centers and arresting thousands VIEW

MOSCOW - The Kremlin responded to a second straight weekend of protests on Sunday with a violent crackdown, arresting thousands in a show of Moscow's...

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January 25, 2021 at 10:08 am

In rare rebuttal of Kremlin critic Navalny, Putin denies he owns a Black Sea palace

MOSCOW - In his first comments since mass protests erupted across Russia over the weekend, President Vladimir Putin denied on Monday that he owns a...

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People clash with police during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F) to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country’s top opposition figure. A Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent foe, was arrested on Jan. 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

January 23, 2021 at 4:10 am

More than 2,700 arrested across Russia as protests swell for jailed opposition leader Navalny

MOSCOW - More than 2,700 people were arrested Saturday in protests spanning nearly 70 cities and towns across Russia calling for the release of jailed...

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January 17, 2021 at 6:44 am

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained on his return to Moscow

MOSCOW - In his return to Russia on Sunday, five months after he left in a coma from a near-fatal poisoning, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny...

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November 6, 2020 at 9:32 am

As Biden’s lead grows, U.S. allies cautiously weigh outreach amid Trump threats

As President Donald Trump makes unsubstantiated attacks on the vote count, officials and newspapers around the world lamented the polarization and dysfunction in the world's...

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October 5, 2020 at 4:20 am

In Russia’s Far East, suspected oil leak blamed for killing octopi, sickening surfers

MOSCOW - The sight would be compared to a graveyard: Along a bay shore on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, more than a dozen octopus...

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October 2, 2020 at 3:26 am

Why Armenia and Azerbaijan have battled over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades

MOSCOW — The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh has simmered for decades. It's not an isolated confrontation, however. Any...

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September 18, 2020 at 12:10 pm

China and Russia lead the coronavirus vaccine race, bending long-standing rules as they go

SEOUL — China and Russia have begun a mass rollout of their coronavirus vaccines before clinical tests are complete, in what is emerging as an...

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