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CNN —Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Europe is in a “pre-war era” but still has a “long way to go” before its ready to confront the threat posed by Russia. We haven’t seen a situation like this since 1945,” Tusk said in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt published Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied that Russia intends to attack NATO countries. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin, Germany, March 15, 2024. Obviously, he feels the need to justify the increasingly violent attacks on civilian sites in Ukraine,” Tusk said.

Persons: Donald Tusk, ” Tusk, “, Vladimir Putin, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, Odd Andersen, Tusk, –, ”, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, doesn’t, Putin, “ Putin Organizations: CNN, Polish, Welt, NATO, European Union, Getty, Law, Justice Party, Poland, Crocus City Hall, Dubrovka, Chechen Locations: Europe, Russia, “, ”, Ukraine, Russian, Sweden, Finland, Baltics, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, France, Germany, Poland, Polish, Berlin, Moscow, Crocus, Beslan

☆ Opinion: Watch carefully what Putin does next
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Literally and figuratively, Putin was telling Russians — who would soon vote in a presidential election — that he was the man to protect them. Once in office, attack after attack gave him the pretext to dismantle democracy brick by brick. Once in office, attack after attack gave him the pretext to dismantle democracy brick by brick. Patrushev, incidentally, now heads the national security council, and as I recently wrote, is a possible successor to Putin. The terrorist attack was a glaring failure by the president and his regime.

Persons: Frida Ghitis, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Putin, —, ”, Yeltsin, Nikolai Patrushev, Alexander Litvinenko, Denis Sinyakov, Moscow’s, beholden, Oleg Nikishin, Crocus Organizations: CNN, Washington Post, Politics, Frida Ghitis CNN, Crocus City Hall, ISIS, Putin, FSB, European Court, Human Rights, Kremlin, Chechen, Getty Locations: Crocus, Moscow, Ukraine, Washington, Chechnya, Russian, Ryazan, AFP, Russia, Beslan, ”

☆ Moscow Concert Hall Shooting Russia Begins Day of Mourning for Victims
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The terrorist attack outside Moscow a few days later was a blow to his aura as a leader for whom national security is paramount. Just days later came a searing counterpoint: His vaunted security apparatus failed to prevent Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack in 20 years. Inside Russia, the election — and its predetermined outcome — underscored Mr. Putin’s dominance over the nation’s politics. The area is closed as part of increased security measures after the terrorist attack on Friday. Before Friday, the most recent mass-casualty terrorist attack in the capital region was a suicide bombing at an airport in Moscow in 2011 that killed 37 people.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, “, ” Aleksandr Kynev, ” Mr, Mr, ”, Nanna Heitmann, Aleksei A, ” Ruslan Leviev, Olga Skabeyeva, Margarita Simonyan, Russia’s, Aleksandr Dugin, Dugin, Dugin’s, Andriy Yusov, Putin’s, Shamil Zhumatov, Kynev, Vladimir Putin’s, Constant Méheut Organizations: Kremlin, Islamic State, Passengers, The New York Times, Terrorism, Islamic, ., Reuters Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Beslan, United States

☆ Thousands gather in Russia to mourn victims of concert hall attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Russia on Sunday held a day of mourning after at least 137 people were killed in an attack on a concert venue in Moscow, the country’s worst attack in two decades. The attack was the deadliest to hit Russia since the Beslan school siege of 2004. Thousands of people from cities across Russia lined up in the rain on Sunday to place flowers at a memorial outside the Crocus City Hall near Moscow to honor those killed. One of those there - 37-year-old Alexander Matveev - told CNN people in Russia felt insecure and worried another attack may take place. Vitaly Smolnikov/APPutin lit a candle at his residence outside Moscow.

Persons: Alexander Matveev, “, Putin, ” Matveev, Vladimir Putin, ”, Vitaly Smolnikov, He's, ” Amaq Organizations: CNN, Sunday, ISIS, Hall, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Kremlin, Russian, RIA Novosti Locations: Russia, Moscow, Beslan, Crocus, Ukraine, Russian

Theater CrisisAbout 40 Chechen militants on Oct. 23, 2002 stormed a Moscow theater where a popular musical was underway, taking some 850 people hostage and planting explosives in the auditorium. They demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. Two days later, a severe explosion shook the building and Russian forces rushed in. A suicide bomber killed 41 people on a Moscow subway train in February 2004. Suicide bombings of two Moscow subway trains about 40 minutes apart in March 2010 killed about 40 people.

Persons: Vladimir Putin's, Friday's, Putin, Shamil Basayev Organizations: Crocus City Hall, Islamic, Officials, Federal Security Service, Public Transport, Air Transport, Moscow's Domodedovo, Islamic State Locations: Moscow, Crocus, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Ryazan, Russian, Chechen, Beslan, Volgograd, St, Petersburg, Moscow's

☆ Deadly Moscow Attack Shatters Putin’s Security Promise to Russians
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just days later came a searing counterpoint: His vaunted security apparatus failed to prevent Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack in 20 years. The assault on Friday, which killed at least 133 people at a concert hall in suburban Moscow, was a blow to Mr. Putin’s aura as a leader for whom national security is paramount. “The election demonstrated a seemingly confident victory,” Aleksandr Kynev, a Russian political scientist, said in a phone interview from Moscow. “And suddenly, against the backdrop of a confident victory, there’s this demonstrative humiliation.”Mr. Putin seemed blindsided by the assault. When he did, the Russian leader said nothing about the mounting evidence that a branch of the Islamic State committed the attack.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, “, ” Aleksandr Kynev, ” Mr, Mr, ” Organizations: Islamic State Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Beslan

☆ Crocus City attack: The ghost of Russia’s past wars comes back to haunt Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Twenty years ago, the Dubrovka gunmen were the disturbed product of Russia’s savage anti-terror campaign that summarily executed hundreds of military aged males in Chechnya in the early 2000s. Emergency services personnel and police work at the scene of the Crocus City Hall attack. First, there will be further efforts to suggest Ukraine and the West are somehow involved in these attacks. The Dubrovka attack was followed two years later by airplanes being blown out of the sky and the catastrophic nightmare of the Beslan school siege. In 2002, Dubrovka forced Moscow reluctantly yet closer to the United States’ war on terror.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Putin, Kadyrov, Stringer, Maria Zakharova, Margarita Simonyan, overstretched Putin, Dubrovka, Yevgeny Prigozhin Organizations: CNN, Gunmen, Dubrovka Theatre, Chechen, Crocus City, Kremlin, Authorities, Getty, Russia Today, ISIS Locations: Moscow, Crocus, Russia, Chechnya, Iraq, Syria, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Caucasus, AFP, Ukraine, fatigues, Russian, Beslan, United States

☆ US Has Intelligence Confirming Islamic State Responsibility for Russia Attack, Official Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( March | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

By Steve Holland(Reuters) - The United States has intelligence confirming Islamic State's claim of responsibility for a deadly shooting at a concert near Moscow, a U.S. official said on Friday. The official said the United States had warned Russia in recent weeks about the possibility of an attack. War in Israel and Gaza View All 222 Images"We did warn the Russians appropriately," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, without providing any additional details. At least 40 people were killed and 145 wounded on Friday when camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on concertgoers near Moscow in one of the deadliest attacks on Russia in decades. The Latest Photos From Ukraine View All 96 ImagesIslamic State, the militant group that once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack, the group's Amaq agency said on Telegram.

Persons: Steve Holland, Andrea Shalal, Sandra Maler Organizations: United, Islamic, U.S Locations: United States, Moscow, Russia, Israel, Gaza, Iraq, Syria

☆ A Russian dissident journalist who is recovering from a suspected poisoning attack explains why Russia must lose in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Her new book, "I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country" is out this week. The Russian dissident journalist and gay rights advocate has been telling her country's untold stories since she was a teenager. So, I went back to Ukraine to work and I was working there for five weeks before I left Ukraine. I don't really remember the first four weeks after I left Ukraine. Kostyuchenko left Russia to report on Ukraine soon after the war started.

Persons: Elena Kostyuchenko, Kostyuchenko, —, Russia, Alexander Welscher, Putin, They're, KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV Organizations: Russia, Service, Novaya Gazeta, Novaya, Getty Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kostyuchenko, Beslan, Ukrainian, Munich, Germany, Russia, Novaya, Soviet, Soviet Union, AFP

☆ „E meritul vostru exclusiv”. Navalny a început să iasă din greva foamei
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-24 | by ( Diana Gatcan | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

Politicianul a intrat în greva foamei pe 31 martie, solicitând accesul la el a unor medici independenți. Navalny a spus că a început să aibă dureri severe în spate și în picior, dar nu a primit tratament calificat. La 19 aprilie, Navalny a fost transferat de la Pokrovskaya IK-2 la secția de spitalizare a spitalului regional pentru condamnații de la IK-3. Navalny a ajuns în colonia Pokrovsky prin decizia instanței Simonovsky, care a executat decizia de înlocuire a condamnării condiționate a politicianului din cazul Yves Rocher în unul real. Politicianul a fost reținut chiar pe aeroportul Sheremetyevo după întoarcerea sa din Berlin, unde se afla în reabilitare după ce a fost otrăvit în vara anului 2020.

Persons: Alexei Navalny, ., Navalny, . Navalny, Rocher Locations: Navalny, Berlin

☆ Procuratura Generală de la Moscova a trimis în judecată dosarul privind retragerea din Rusia în Moldova a peste 126 de miliarde de ruble
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-13 | by ( Diana Severin | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

Procuratura Generală de la Moscova a trimis în instanță dosarul penal privind retragerea din Rusia către banca din R. Moldova, Moldindconbank S. A, a mai mult de 126 miliarde ruble. Acest lucru a fost raportat jurnaliștilor vineri de serviciul de presă al Procuraturii Generale, informează Tass. „Procuratura Generală a aprobat un rechizitoriu într-un dosar penal împotriva lui Alexander Korkin, Alexey Sobolev, Lev Pakhomov, Rinat Yusupov și Vinera Sharipova. Cazul penal a fost trimis la Curtea Tverskaya din Moscova”, se arată în mesaj. Vladimir Plahotniuc, Veaceslav Platon și omul de afaceri Renato Usatii au fost anunțați în căutare internațională.

Persons: Alexander Korkin, Lev Pakhomov, Veaceslav Platon, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Oleg Kuzmin, Alexander Grigoriev, Alexei Sobolev, Elena Platon, Renato Usatii Organizations: Procuratura, Express Bank, Bank Locations: Moscova, Rusia, Moldova, Chișinău, coproprietari, OJSC Bank, SA

☆ Procuratura Generală de la Moscova a trimis în instanță dosarul privind retragerea a peste 126 de miliarde de ruble din Rusia în Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-13 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Procuratura Generală de la Moscova a trimis în instanță dosarul privind retragerea a peste 126 de miliarde de ruble din Rusia în MoldovaProcuratura Generală de la Moscova a trimis în instanță dosarul penal privind retragerea din Rusia de către banca din Republica Moldova, Moldindconbank S. A, a mai mult de 126 miliarde ruble. Acest lucru a fost raportat jurnaliștilor vineri de serviciul de presă al Procuraturii Generale, informează Tass. „Procuratura Generală a aprobat un rechizitoriu într-un dosar penal împotriva lui Alexander Korkin, Alexey Sobolev, Lev Pakhomov, Rinat Yusupov și Viner Sharipova. Cazul penal a fost trimis la Curtea Tverskoy din Moscova”, se arată în mesaj. Plahotniuc, Veaceslav Platon și omul de afaceri Renato Usatii au fost incluși pe lista internațională de căutări.

Persons: Alexander Korkin, Lev Pakhomov, Veaceslav Platon, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Oleg Kuzmin, Alexander Grigoriev, Alexei Sobolev, Elena Platon, Plahotniuc, Renato Usatii Organizations: Procuratura, Moldova Procuratura, Express Bank, Bank Locations: Moscova, Rusia, Moldova, Republica Moldova, Chișinău, coproprietari, OJSC Bank, SA

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