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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “99.9 percent” of Russians are patriotic enough to sacrifice their lives in the Ukrainian war effort. In an interview with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin on Rossiya-1, the Russian leader said that his military was well-stocked with willing, war-ready men. “As for the most—99.9%—of our citizens, our people that are ready to sacrifice everything for the Motherland, it doesn’t strike me as unusual,” Putin said in the interview. “But it just reassures me yet again that Russia is a special country, and it has special people.” “This just once again conv...
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Russian police arrested hundreds of people protesting against President Vladimir Putin‘s order to call up 300,000 reservists to fight in the country’s invasion of Ukraine. According to OVD-Info, a human rights group, more than 1,300 were detained, most of them in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The watchdog organization shared some of the arrests on social media. The video below, published on Thursday, shows the moment when a protester is surrounded by police officers in St. Petersburg. Putin declared a partial mobilization in a rare national televised address on Wednesday. The decision was announc...
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For the first time since 1918, when the Russian Revolution was entering its second year, the Russian Federation has defaulted on its debts. In a report from several Taiwanese holders of Russian bonds, Vladimir Putin defaulted on Russia’s loans after failing to pay off $100 million in interest. President Joe Biden‘s administration said the default shows the effectiveness of the sanctions by NATO and E.U. countries. “This morning’s news around the finding of Russia’s default, for the first time in more than a century, situates just how strong the reactions are that the U.S., along with allies an...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin heavily criticized the United States in his speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. “Nothing lasts forever,” he said in reference to America being the world’s lone superpower. The man who ordered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February issued perhaps one of his most controversial statements in comparing himself to Peter the Great. “Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years,” Putin said. “On the face of it, he was at war with Sweden taking something away from it… He was not taking away anything, he was returning. Thi...
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Russia’s ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was doused with red paint by protestors to the Russia-Ukraine War as he made an appearance at the Warsaw cemetery to honor Red Army soldiers who lost their lives fighting in World War II on Victory Day. The holiday celebrates the Allies’ win over Nazi Germany. Protestors screamed “murderers” and “fascists,” as they snatched away and trampled the flowers Andreev was going to lay on the graves. He was hit with two bags of red paint. The first one hit him in the back, but the second one hit him directly in the face. Andreev returned to his car and left...
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Israel blasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for his comments on Nazism, suggesting that just because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish doesn’t mean his country doesn’t have Nazi elements. Russia has falsely justified its invasion of Ukraine as “denazifying” the country. “So when they say ‘How can Nazification exist if we’re Jewish?’ In my opinion, Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean absolutely anything. For some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest antisemites were Jewish,” Lavrov said on an Italian television program over the weeke...
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Russia’s state oil company, Gazprom, stopped gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria after their refusal to issue payments in roubles. Russia is the main energy supplier to the European Union. Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President, said, “the Kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to blackmail us.” Leyen added, “this is something the European Commission has been preparing for in close coordination and solidarity.” Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in March that created a process for foreign buyers of gas to pay in roubles. However, the European Commission said the payments...
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Ukraine authorities reported that Russian Major General Andrei Simonov was killed near Kharkiv over the weekend, marking the ninth Russian general killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war just over two months ago. In Saturday’s Ukrainian attack on a field command post, over 30 vehicles were struck and at least 100 Russian soldiers were killed. Simonov was a high-level commander of electronic warfare, according to a statement on Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko‘s Telegram account. “Russia is losing one general a week on average in Putin’s disastrous war, which must be an almost unp...
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Russian missiles struck close to Kyiv where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday night. “Today, immediately after the end of our talks in Kyiv, Russian missiles flew into the city. Five rockets. And this says a lot … about the Russian leadership’s efforts to humiliate the U.N. and everything that the organization represents,” Zelenskyy said. Guterres was said to be “shocked” at how close the missiles had been, though it was not made clear just how close they had been to hit the building Guterres and Zelensky were ...
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French authorities have seized Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich‘s $120 million French Riviera mansion. It was the last of his 12 properties to be seized, and one of his favorite locations. Abramovich bought Château de la Croë in 2001 and spent around $40 million on renovation costs. The mansion boasts 12 bedrooms and eight bathrooms. It sits on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Famed past residents include King Edward VIII and World War II-era British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. France and a number of other European countries have been ramping up sanctions on Russia and its prominent ...
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