DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Biden Praises ‘Absolute Courage’ of U.S. Journalist Detained in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Matthew Mpoke Bigg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It is also the first time that a Western journalist in Russia has been charged with espionage since the end of the Cold War. “Evan and Austin should be released immediately along with every other American held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad,” Mr. Biden said. Debra and Marc Tice, the parents of Mr. Tice, wrote an opinion article, published in The Washington Post last August, in which they urged Mr. Biden to step up diplomatic efforts to free him. Mr. Biden also called for the release of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine serving a 16-year prison sentence in Russia on what the United States says are fabricated charges of espionage, and addressed Brittney Griner, a W.N.B.A. star who was freed in a prisoner swap in December after being detained for nearly 10 months in Russia.

☆ Opinion: Russia has stifled another Putin opponent. Here’s how the West might help him
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Opinion Casey Michel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Editor’s Note: Casey Michel is the director of the Human Rights Foundation’s Combating Kleptocracy Program. While the West must continue to call for the release of those two high-profile political prisoners, it should not overlook Kara-Murza. US lawmakers in the US Congress have issued a range of congressional resolutions and individual statements highlighting Kara-Murza’s plight. The disjointed Western response to Kara-Murza’s plight only works to Russia’s advantage. It’s long past time to create a coordinating body to ensure that Western sanctions packages are aligned and airtight.

☆ Putin's political enemies and Kremlin critics face an 'extremely dangerous' situation in Russia right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

"All of the opposition political leaders are either in jail or under restrictive measures or outside of the country. The oppression of political opposition figures in Russia is nothing new. Some accuse the Russian state of trying to poison them, while others have died in suspicious circumstances. Evgenia Novozhenina | ReutersThe persecution of political opposition figures attracted global attention in 2020 when the high-profile Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya agreed that "it's extremely dangerous" to be a critic of the Kremlin now, no matter what your background is.

Then on Monday, opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for treason and spreading "false information" about Russia's war in Ukraine. loadingThe Kremlin says it has no say over court decisions and Navalny's treatment is a matter for the prison service. Putin has told Russians that the West is seeking to use traitors as a "fifth column" to sow discord and ultimately destroy Russia. ARREST WARRANTThe trend has accelerated since March 17, when Putin was accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Russia's prison service did not reply to a request for comment.

☆ Kremlin critic Yashin defiant after losing appeal against long jail term
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Yashin's appeal was turned down two days after his fellow Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years on charges of treason and also, like Yashin, "knowingly spreading false information". "The sentence handed down to me is staggering: eight-and-a-half years in prison for a 20-minute speech on the Internet. After Yashin was convicted in December, President Vladimir Putin was asked about the case during a news conference, and asked who Yashin was. In court, Yashin predicted that Russia would one day be a very different place. "I will become one of those who will build a new, free and happy Russia on the ruins of Putinism."

There's been an international outcry after a Russian court sentenced Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison for treason, and other charges including spreading "false" information about the Russian army. Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said "Russia's lack of commitment to protecting fundamental human rights, including freedom of expression, is alarming. We continue to urge Russia to adhere to its international obligations including Vladimir Kara-Murza's entitlement to proper healthcare." Elsewhere, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement that the 25-year prison sentence was "another blow to the rule of law and civic space in the Russian Federation." "No one should be deprived of their liberty for exercising their human rights, and I call on the Russian authorities to release him without delay," Turk said.

☆ Russian Court Sentences Putin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 Years for Treason
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza during a court hearing in Moscow on Monday. A Russian court convicted Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza for treason and sentenced him to 25 years in prison after he criticized the government of President Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. The sentence is the longest to have been handed to a Russian opposition figure since the war in Ukraine began in February last year. It comes after a sweeping clampdown on all forms of dissent and the detentions of more than 20,000 antiwar activists for participation in protest rallies, social-media posts and even private conversations denouncing Mr. Putin.

☆ Russian Court Sentences Kremlin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 Years for Treason
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza during a court hearing in Moscow on Monday. A Russian court sentenced Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison for treason, a charge that he described as trumped up to punish him for his opposition to the government of President Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. The sentencing is the harshest punishment in terms of prison time for a Russian opposition figure since the war in Ukraine began in February last year. It comes after a sweeping clampdown on all forms of dissent and the detentions of more than 20,000 antiwar activists for participation in protest rallies, social-media posts and even private conversations denouncing Mr. Putin.

☆ Factbox: Who is Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 17 (Reuters) - Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza was convicted of treason by a Moscow court on Monday and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Kara-Murza, 41, is a historian, journalist and opposition politician who holds Russian and British passports and studied in England at Cambridge University. He was a close associate of Boris Nemtsov, a leading opposition figure who was assassinated near the Kremlin in 2015, and continued to speak out against President Vladimir Putin despite the mounting risks. Twice, in 2015 and 2017, Kara-Murza suddenly fell ill in what he said were poisonings by the Russian security services, on both occasions falling into a coma before eventually recovering. Kara-Murza was arrested in April 2022, hours after CNN broadcast an interview in which he said Russia was being run by a "regime of murderers".

☆ Factbox: Kara-Murza becomes latest Putin opponent to get long jail term
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovApril 17 (Reuters) - Sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison on charges including treason, Vladimir Kara-Murza joined a growing list of Russians who have received long jail terms after speaking out against President Vladimir Putin or the invasion of Ukraine. The 25-year term he received was the harshest of its kind since Russia invaded its neighbour last February. ILYA YASHINOpposition politician Yashin was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison in December 2022 on charges of spreading "false information" about the army. ALEXEI GORINOVGorinov, a Moscow district councillor, was jailed for seven years in July 2022 on charges of spreading false information about the armed forces. ALEXEI MOSKALYOVMoskalyov was investigated by police after his daughter Masha, then 12, drew an anti-war picture at school in 2022.

State prosecutors, who had requested the court jail him for 25 years, had accused him of treason and of discrediting the Russian military after he criticised what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine. In a CNN interview broadcast hours before he was arrested, Kara-Murza had alleged that Russia was being run by a "regime of murderers." He had also used speeches in the United States and across Europe to accuse Moscow of bombing civilian targets in Ukraine, a charge it has rejected. I also know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate," he had said. Kara-Murza's lawyers say that as a result, he suffers from a serious nerve disorder called polyneuropathy.

☆ Putin critic facing up to 25 years in jail to learn fate on Monday
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - Facing up to a quarter of a century in jail on treason charges he denies, Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza is expected to learn his fate on Monday when a Moscow court pronounces a verdict and sentences him. The court is expected to start delivering its verdict at 11 a.m. (0800 GMT). In his final speech to the court, Kara-Murza compared his trial to one of Josef Stalin's show trials in the 1930s. He declined to ask the court to acquit him and said he stood by and was proud of everything he had said. I also know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate," he said.

☆ Wife of jailed Putin critic says 25-year sentence is 'recognition' of his work
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The wife of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza said on Monday that the 25-year prison sentence a Russian court handed him was recognition of the effectiveness of his work and showed that authorities fear him. Evgenia Kara-Murza spoke at a Washington Post event about the sentence on charges of treason and other offenses Kara-Murza denies committing. State prosecutors also accused him of discrediting the Russian military after spreading "knowingly false information" about its conduct in what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine. "I understand that this sentence is the high recognition of the effectiveness of Vladimir’s work," she said at the event that was streamed online, alongside an attorney for her husband. "This sentence shows that they’re so afraid of him and they hate him so much for his consistency, for his courage, for his amazing bravery," she added.

☆ Russian journalists demand politician Kara-Murza's release ahead of 'Stalinist' treason verdict
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The appeal to release Vladimir Kara-Murza, 41, came ahead of a court hearing in Moscow as his trial, which the journalists likened to the political terror meted out by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in the 1930s, draws to a close. Russian state prosecutors on Thursday requested a 25-year prison sentence for Kara-Murza, a father of three and author and former journalist who holds Russian and British passports. The letter petitioning for Kara-Murza's release was signed by many journalists who have fled the country. "We demand that the Russian authorities, law enforcement officers and judges return to the path of justice. Russian authorities deny any involvement in the alleged attacks.

☆ Ukraine war: The latest news
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BATTLEFIELD* The Russian-installed head of Donetsk said Russian forces controlled more than 75% of the besieged city of Bakhmut. * Russia and Ukraine carried out a major prisoner swap, with 106 Russian captives being freed in exchange for 100 Ukrainians. LEAKED DOCUMENTS* Ukraine has been forced to amend some military plans ahead of a much-vaunted counter-offensive because of a leak of classified U.S. documents, CNN reported. [1/4] A Ukrainian serviceman clears a trench amid Russia's attack on Ukraine at the frontline near Donetsk, Ukraine, April 8, 2023. * Ukraine is seeking a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, believing it should be more involved in resolving the war.

☆ US sanctions three people for abuse of Russian opposition politician
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Katharine Jackson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on three Russians it accused of serious human rights abuses against Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was arrested last year after speaking out against the war in Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury Department said the sanctions target Elena Anatolievna Lenskaya, Andrei Andreevich Zadachin and Danila Yurievich Mikheev for abuses under the Global Magnitsky Act. Kara-Murza, who holds both British and Russian citizenship and was a pallbearer at the 2018 funeral of U.S. Senator John McCain, was a close aide to opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in central Moscow in 2015. Kara-Murza has pushed for the U.S., Canada, European Union and Britain to use Magnitsky-style sanctions to target human rights abusers and corrupt actors in Russia, the Treasury Department said.

☆ VIDEO/ Cum au avut loc la Moscova și la Sankt Petersburg mitingurile în sprijinul politicianului Alexei Navalny: „Și noi suntem Rusia”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-22 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +4 min

Din 31 martie, Alexei Navalny a intrat în greva foamei în urma refuzului administrației penitenciarului de a i se oferi îngrijiri medicale calificate. Administrația IK-2 Pokrov a refuzat să-și admită medicul curant la politician și l-a transferat pe Navalny în „izolatorul spitalului de tuberculoză IK-3 din Vladimir. Acțiuni de protest și mitinguri au fost inițiate și în Orientul Îndepărtat, iar forțele de securitate desfășoară rețineri preventive în toate regiunile Federației Ruse. Potrivit autorităților, participarea masivă a protestatarilor este motivată și de adresarea lui Putin către Adunarea Federală. Ei scandează că nu doar hoții și infractorii care stau în spatele zidului Kremlinului au dreptul să considere că Rusia e a lor.

Persons: Alexei Navalny, Pokrov, Navalny, Putin, Vladimir Putin, . Or, Alexei Organizations: Adunarea Federală, Alexei Navalny, Poliția Locations: Moscova, Rusia, Orientul Îndepărtat, Federației Ruse, Corespondenții, Rusiei, Tverskaya, Moscovei, Sankt Petersburg

☆ 29 июля 2009 года: Государственный переворот в Молдове (В 3-х частях.2012). eNews.md
▼ + stars: | 2009-06-29 | by ( Dr. Oco | ) enews.md time to read: +31 min

7 апреля - 29 июля 2009 года: Государственный переворот в Молдове (В 3-х частях.2012)В Республике Молдова в период с 6-8 апреля по 29 июля 2009 года включительно произошел государственный переворот, который 23 марта 2012 года завершился узурпацией власти. По содержанию - государственный переворот означает: a) смену правителя и/или правящего класса и b) коренное изменение в государственной жизни, резкий поворот, перелом в политике государства. Поэтому неверно думать, что государственный переворот обязательно происходит только в насильственной, вооруженной форме, сопровождается вооруженной борьбой. И, в отличие от революции, государственный переворот может не сопровождаться массовыми социальными протестами (См., например: Политическая наука: словарь-справочник, http://clck.ru/15ln7). Поразительно, но Вы не найдете в специальной и популярной литературе оценку событий в период с 6-8 апреля по 29 июля 2009 года как государственный переворот (См., например: Государственный переворот, http://clck.ru/QlVk; или - Кара-Мурза, http://clck.ru/15maL).

Persons: “, ”, “ ”, Волков, Вопервых, Р.Молдова, Платон, Аристотель, Н.Макиавелли, Т.Гоббс, Г.Ноде, Габриэль Ноде, К. фон Клаузевица, Г.Гегель, К.Маркс, В.И.Ленин, К. Малапарте, Э. Люттвак, Д.Шарп, Багдасарян, Сулакшин, Глазунов, КараМурза, Малапарте, Политик, Н.С. Хрущев, М.С. Горбачев, Б.Н. Ельцин, См. Глазунов, Даниленко, Липкин, Д.Шарпом, Шарп, См., Барри, Воронин, Черемных, Шварц, Милов, Марк Ткачук, Эдуард Багиров, Богату, Петренко, Ткачук, В.Воронин, См. Воронин, И.Н.Додон, Президент, М.Лупу, Путч, третьеВопервых, С.Урекян, С.Урекяном, В. Воронин, С.Урекяну, В. Павличенко, Конфуций, Ф.Энгельс, Наталии Морарь, Морарь, И.Додон, Эдуард Волков Organizations: Институт стран СНГ “, РМ, Верховный Совет, Политология, РМВнесла, Генпрокуратура, СИБом РМ, ЦК, ПКРМ, ИА, ПУТЧ, Парламент, Путч, Комитет национального спасения, Альянс За европейскую интеграцию, СМИ, Демократическая партия, Великое Объединение, Национальнолиберальная партия, Совет объединения, Союз России и Белоруссии, Союз, Великое объединение, Альянс за европейская интеграция, СКОЛЬКО К МОЛДАВСКОМУ НЕЗАВИСИМЫЙ ГОСУДАРСТВУ, ПРАВДА, Социалдемократическая партия В.Шелина, Социалистическая партия, Народносоциалистическая партия В.Степанюка, СНГ, Интегрированная история, История Молдовы Locations: ”, –, Молдова, Республика Молдова, Р., Материк, Медушевский, РМ, Бессарабия, Румыния, Парламент, К.Маркс, Россия, Путч, Прут

Search resuls for: "MURZA"

18 mentions found