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☆ Navalny is the latest in a long line of Putin critics who met an early death
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —When Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, there were many who feared he would face an untimely end. The Kremlin has said it is investigating the critic’s death, the circumstances of which were not immediately clear. After his death, opposition leader Ilya Yashin said his friend had been working on a report about Russian troops and their involvement in Ukraine. Nemtsov’s death came two days before he was set to lead an opposition rally in the Russian capital. Alexander PerepilichnyyOver the years, suggestions have emerged of the possible use of a rare plant poison in the death of Russian financier Alexander Perepilichnyy.

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☆ Forest fires hit Russian Black Sea resort town
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fire-fighting helicopter drops water during an operation to put out forest fires near the Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik, Russia, in this still image from video released August 30, 2023. Russian Emergencies Ministry/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsAug 30 (Reuters) - Hundreds of firefighters are trying to put out blazes near the Russian Black Sea town of Gelendzhik, one of the country's most popular resorts, the local mayor said on Wednesday. In a post on Telegram, mayor Alexei Bogodistov said that 441 people, more than 80 vehicles and fire-fighting planes and helicopters had been deployed to combat the forest fires which had engulfed 118 hectares of land. Footage circulating online showed the wooded hills above the town wreathed in flame. Forest fires are rare on Russia's humid Black Sea coast, but much of Europe has sweltered in a series of heatwaves this summer, causing blazes across the continent.

Persons: Alexei Bogodistov, Felix Light, Mark Trevelyan Organizations: Russian Emergencies Ministry, REUTERS Acquire, Thomson Locations: Gelendzhik, Russia, Russian, Europe

☆ Russian Putin critics like Prigozhin who met an early death
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

No evidence has been presented that points to the involvement of the Kremlin or Russian security services in the crash. Nemtsov’s death came two days before he was set to lead an opposition rally in the Russian capital. Alexander PerepilichnyyOver the years, suggestions have emerged of the possible use of a rare plant poison in the death of Russian financier Alexander Perepilichnyy. ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesRussian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian prison in 2009. The most prominent voice of dissent in Putin’s Russia, the lawyer, politician and corruption activist for years orchestrated massive street protests.

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☆ Revealed: Vladimir Putin's secret Black Sea bunker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | Anastasiia Carrier | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

You would think that the architects who designed Vladimir Putin's palace thought of everything. They failed to hide plans showing two elaborate tunnels running beneath the palace complex — plans that any competent state-security apparatus would fight tooth-and-nail to keep secret. The underground complex beneath Putin's palace consists of two separate tunnels connected by an elevator that descends roughly 50 meters below the surface. Gelendzhik is the town closest to the palace complex, a five-hour drive from the resort city of Sochi. "With the war in Ukraine," Kimmage said, "there's speechmaking, there's propaganda, there's exaggeration — there's this performative aspect that plays to Russia's domestic politics.

☆ Wagner’s convicts tell of horrors of Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

They are identified as pardoned former convicts, returned from the front in Ukraine after joining Wagner from prison. Four of the men said they were personally recruited by Yevgeny Prigozhin as he toured Russia’s prison system to bolster his private army. I wish all real men would join Wagner.”The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s military capacity. One of the convict recruits told Reuters he travelled to a Wagner training camp in the Russian-controlled part of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. According to the United States, by mid-February Wagner had suffered more than 30,000 casualties in Ukraine, including 9,000 dead, almost all of them convicts.

☆ Putin has escaped to his secret palace in a forest amid anti-draft protests in Russian cities, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Vladimir Putin has escaped to his secret palace amid anti-draft protests in Russia, per a report. An image of a bedroom inside Vladimir Putin's purported secret palace. An image from inside Vladimir Putin's purported secret palace. An image showing the outside of Vladimir Putin's palace. Police officers detain a protester during the unsanctioned rally in Moscow, Russia, on September 24, 2022.

☆ Palatul secret al lui Putin, de două ori mai mare decât Palatul Buckingham: Ar fi costat aproape 300 milioane de dolari
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-19 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

Vladimir Putin și-ar fi îmbogățit imperiul imobiliar cu un nou palat impresionant, în valoare de peste 270 de milioane de dolari, construit la marginea Moscovei. Palatul a fost construit într-o zonă exclusivistă a miliardarilor din MoscovaImpunătorul palat a fost construit într-o zonă exclusivistă cunoscută drept „cartierul miliardarilor”. Palatul în stil clasic a fost deținut de o companie denumită „Properietatea-V”, pe perioada construcției. Vladimir Putin ar fi proprietarul unui impresionant imperiu imobiliarCompaniile legate de construcția palatului sunt legate strâns de elita rusă și au legătură și cu alte astfel de proprietăți. Alina Kabaeva, fostă medaliată cu aur la Jocurile Olimpice obține un salariu anual de peste 10 milioane de dolari.

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