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☆ Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Why does this election matter? The presidential vote in Russia, which begins Friday and lasts through Sunday, features the trappings of a horse race but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum. President Vladimir V. Putin, 71, will undoubtedly win a fifth term, with none of the three other candidates who are permitted on the ballot presenting a real challenge. The main opposition figure who worked to spoil the vote, Aleksei A. Navalny, a harsh critic of Mr. Putin and the Ukraine war, died in an Arctic prison last month. Still, the vote is significant for Mr. Putin as a way to cement his legitimacy and refurbish his preferred image as the embodiment of security and stability.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Aleksei A, Mr, ”, Nikolay Petrov Organizations: Kremlin, German Institute for International and Security Affairs Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russian, Berlin

☆ Russia’s 2024 Presidential Vote: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Why does this vote matter? The presidential vote in Russia, which began Friday and lasts through Sunday, features the trappings of a horse race but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum. President Vladimir V. Putin, 71, will undoubtedly win a fifth term, with none of the three other candidates who are permitted on the ballot presenting a real challenge. The main opposition figure who worked to spoil the vote, Aleksei A. Navalny, a harsh critic of Mr. Putin and the Ukraine war, died in an Arctic prison last month. Still, the vote is significant for Mr. Putin as a way to cement his legitimacy and refurbish his preferred image as the embodiment of security and stability.

☆ Orban Endangers Hungary’s Status as an Ally, U.S. Diplomat Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Andrew Higgins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Viktor Orban is jeopardizing Hungary’s position as a trusted NATO ally, the U.S. ambassador to Budapest warned on Thursday, with “its close and expanding relationship with Russia,” and with “dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging” in state-controlled media. The ambassador, David Pressman, has for months criticized Mr. Orban for effectively siding with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russa over the war in Ukraine, but his latest remarks sharply ratcheted up tensions and indicated that trust in Hungary among NATO allies had collapsed. Hungary is “an ally that behaves unlike any other” and is “alone on the defining issue of European security of the last quarter century, Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Mr. Pressman said in a speech in Budapest marking the 25th anniversary of Hungary’s admission to the Western military alliance. “We will have to decide how best to protect our security interests, which, as allies, should be our collective security interests,” he added.

Persons: Viktor Orban, “, David Pressman, Mr, Orban, Vladimir V, Putin, Russa, ” Mr, Pressman Organizations: NATO Locations: NATO, U.S, Budapest, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary

☆ Navalny’s Heirs Seek a Political Future in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Anatoly Kurmanaev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Aleksei A. Navalny built Russia’s largest opposition force in his image, embodying a freer, fairer Russia for millions. His exiled team now faces the daunting task of steering his political movement without him. Ms. Navalnaya, 47, is aided by a close-knit team of her husband’s lieutenants, who took over running Mr. Navalny’s political network after his imprisonment in 2021. And so far, Mr. Navalny’s team has made little attempt to unite Russia’s fractured opposition groups and win new allies by adjusting its insular, tightly controlled ways. A spokeswoman for Mr. Navalny’s team, Kira Yarmysh, did not respond to questions or interview requests; nor did several of Mr. Navalny’s aides.

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny’s, Yulia Navalnaya, Vladimir V, Putin, Navalnaya, Russia’s, Kira Yarmysh Locations: Russia

☆ Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( David E. Sanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden was standing in an Upper East Side townhouse owned by the businessman James Murdoch, the rebellious scion of the media empire, surrounded by liberal New York Democrats who had paid handsomely to come hear optimistic talk about the Biden agenda for the next few years. It was Oct. 6, 2022, but what they heard instead that evening was a disturbing message that — though Mr. Biden didn’t say so — came straight from highly classified intercepted communications he had recently been briefed about, suggesting that President Vladimir V. Putin’s threats to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine might be turning into an operational plan. For the “first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis,” he told the group, as they gathered amid Mr. Murdoch’s art collection, “we have a direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path they’ve been going.” The gravity of his tone began to sink in: The president was talking about the prospect of the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Persons: Biden, James Murdoch, —, Vladimir V, ” Organizations: New York Democrats, Cuban Missile Locations: Upper, Ukraine, Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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☆ Victoria Nuland, Veteran Russia Hawk, to Leave the State Department
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Michael Crowley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Victoria J. Nuland, the third-ranking official at the State Department and a determined advocate of tough policies toward Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia, will retire this month after more than 30 years of government service. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken announced Ms. Nuland’s departure from the post of under secretary for political affairs on Tuesday in a statement noting her “fierce passion” for freedom, democracy and human rights, and America’s promotion of those causes abroad. Mr. Blinken singled out her work on Ukraine, which he called “indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion” of the country. Ms. Nuland held numerous State Department positions, including spokeswoman, and once served as deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. But she made her mark as a Russia specialist who long argued for marshaling strong resistance to Mr. Putin’s territorial ambitions and foreign political influence.

Persons: Victoria J, Nuland, Vladimir V, Antony J, Blinken, Nuland’s, Putin’s, Dick Cheney Organizations: State Department, Department Locations: Russia, Ukraine

☆ Now It’s Germany’s Turn to Frustrate Allies Over Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( David E. Sanger | Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

First it was France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, who angered his NATO allies by suggesting that soon the West could be forced to send troops to Ukraine, portending a direct confrontation with Russian forces that the rest of the alliance has long rejected. Then Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany took his own turn exposing new divisions. Trying to justify why Germany was withholding its most powerful missile, the Taurus, from Ukrainian hands, he hinted that Britain, France and the United States may secretly be helping Ukraine target similar weapons, a step he said Germany simply could not take. While neither Britain or France has commented officially — they almost never discuss how their weapons are deployed — Mr. Scholz was immediately accused by former officials of revealing war secrets. “Scholz’s behavior has showed that as far as the security of Europe goes he is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time,” Ben Wallace, Britain’s former defense minister, told The Evening Standard, a London daily.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, portending, Olaf Scholz, Germany, Scholz, ” Ben Wallace, Tobias Ellwood, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: NATO, Russian, Conservative Locations: Ukraine, Germany, Britain, France, United States, Europe, London, Washington

☆ Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Paul Sonne | Oleg Matsnev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Aleksei A. Navalny was alive, the Kremlin sought to portray him as an inconsequential figure unworthy of attention, even as the Russian authorities vilified and attacked him with a viciousness that suggested the opposite. President Vladimir V. Putin has not said a word in public about Mr. Navalny in the two weeks since the opposition campaigner’s death at age 47 in an Arctic prison. Russian state television has been almost equally silent. And on Friday, as thousands gathered in the Russian capital for Mr. Navalny’s funeral, cheering his name, official Moscow acted as if the remembrance was a nonevent. When asked that morning if the Kremlin could comment on Mr. Navalny as a political figure, Mr. Putin’s spokesman responded, “It cannot.”

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny, Vladimir V, Putin, Navalny’s, Yulia Navalnaya, Putin’s, ” Organizations: Kremlin Locations: Moscow

☆ For Navalny’s Followers, a ‘Surge of Inspiration’ at a Sad Event
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Anton Troianovski | Valerie Hopkins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Elena Milashina, a daring Russian reporter beaten unconscious and doused in liquid iodine last year, said she has bid farewell to far too many journalists, activists and opposition figures who died an untimely death. But never, she said in a phone interview from Moscow, had she seen anything like the scene on Friday on the streets of the sleepy Maryino neighborhood on the outskirts of the Russian capital. “This was the most optimistic funeral I can remember,” said Ms. Milashina, 47, citing the large crowds and a palpable sense of unity. There was this surge of inspiration that we are all together, and that there are many of us.”The funeral of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Friday may come to be remembered as a seminal moment in Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia. It was a day when the president’s decades-long nemesis was laid to rest, underlining Mr. Putin’s dominance; but it was also a day when an ocean of pent-up dissent re-emerged, if only for a few hours, on Moscow’s streets.

Persons: Elena Milashina, ”, Milashina, Aleksei A, Vladimir V Locations: Moscow, “, Russia, Moscow’s

☆ NASA may build giant telescopes on the moon in your lifetime. Check out the blueprints.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

One moonshot plan would build a giant radio dish spanning an entire crater on the far side of the moon. An illustration of a conceptual radio telescope within a crater on the moon. Silk argues that lunar telescopes would open the door to a new era of major space discoveries. A satellite trail streaks in front of galaxies in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Any radio telescope on the moon's back end would pick up the pure emissions of the universe.

Persons: —, Vladimir Vustyansky, James Webb, Dallan Porter, Roger Angel, Joseph Silk, Jack Burns, Burns, That's, Stefica Nicol, Artemis, Ronald Polidan, FarView, Jack Burns Karan Jani, LILA, Fermilab LILA, Jani, NASA's James Webb, Temim, Webb, Angel, Chris Gunn, Nick Woolf, Angel Roger, Phil, Martin Elvis, Elvis Organizations: Service, NASA, Business, Vanderbilt Lunar Labs, Telescope, University of Arizona, American Astronomical Society, Payload, University of Colorado Boulder, Hubble Space, Hubble, ESA, Radio Telescope, REUTERS, NASA JPL, Caltech, Radio Science Investigations, Houston, Lunar Resources, Resources, Inc, Vanderbilt University, Fermilab, Telescopes, CSA, Princeton University, Engineers, James Webb Space, Industry, AP Locations: New Orleans, Australia

☆ Putin Says Direct Western Intervention in Ukraine Risks a Nuclear Conflict
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said the West faced the prospect of nuclear conflict if it intervened more directly in the war in Ukraine, using an annual speech to the nation on Thursday to escalate his threats against Europe and the United States. Mr. Putin said Western countries that are helping Ukraine strike Russian territory, and have discussed the possibility of sending troops from NATO countries to Ukraine, “must, in the end, understand” that “all this truly threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and therefore the destruction of civilization.”“We also have weapons that can strike targets on their territory,” Mr. Putin said. “Do they not understand this?”The United States and other Western governments have largely tried to distance themselves from Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, and comments by President Emmanuel Macron of France this week about the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine drew quick rebukes from other Western officials who have ruled out such deployments.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, “, Mr, Emmanuel Macron Organizations: West, NATO Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Europe, United States, France

☆ New Nuclear Threats From Putin, Timed for a Moment of Anxiety
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( David E. Sanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Putin knows that his opponents — led by President Biden — fear escalation of the conflict most of all. Even bluster about going nuclear serves as a reminder to Mr. Putin’s many adversaries of the risks of pushing him too far. But Mr. Putin’s equivalent of a State of the Union speech on Thursday also contained some distinct new elements. Some would call it nuclear chess, others nuclear blackmail. That would free him to deploy as many nuclear weapons as he wants.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, —, Biden —, Putin’s Organizations: United Locations: Ukraine, United States, Ukrainian, Russian

☆ Seeking to Unsettle Russia, Macron Provokes Allies
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Roger Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With his jolting unexpected statement that sending Western troops to Ukraine “should not be ruled out,” President Emmanuel Macron of France has shattered a taboo, ignited debate, spread dismay among allies and forced a reckoning on Europe’s future. For an embattled leader who loathes lazy thinking, longs for a Europe of military strength and loves the limelight, this was typical enough. It was Mr. Macron, after all, who in 2019 described NATO as suffering from “brain death” and who last year warned Europe against becoming America’s strategic “vassal.”But bold pronouncements are one thing and patiently putting the pieces in place to attain those objectives, another. Mr. Macron has often favored provocation over preparation, even if he often has a point, as in arguing since 2017 that Europe needed to bolster its defense industry to attain greater strategic heft. By lurching forward without building consensus among allies, Mr. Macron may have done more to illustrate Western divisions and the limits of how far NATO allies are willing to go in defense of Ukraine than achieve the “strategic ambiguity” he says is needed to keep President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia guessing.

Persons: Ukraine “, Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: NATO Locations: Ukraine, France, Europe, Russia

☆ Russian Court Jails Rights Advocate for ‘Discrediting’ the Military
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Valerie Hopkins | More About Valerie Hopkins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Moscow court sentenced the co-chairman of Memorial, the Russian rights group that was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, to two and a half years in prison on Tuesday for “discrediting” Russia’s military by voicing his opposition to the war in Ukraine. Although the Kremlin ordered his group liquidated in late 2021, the co-chairman, Oleg Orlov, 70, chose to stay in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine two years ago and has continued to criticize his government despite a climate of increasing repression. In November 2022, Mr. Orlov wrote an article headlined “They Wanted Fascism. They Got it,” in which he blamed President Vladimir V. Putin and the wider Russian public for the invasion and for allowing the country to slip “back into totalitarianism.”Nearly a year later, he was convicted of “repeated discreditation” of Russia’s armed forces. That charge carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, but he was punished only with a fine of 150,000 rubles, about $1,600, because of mitigating factors including his age and his prominent public profile.

Persons: ”, Oleg Orlov, Orlov, Vladimir V, Putin, “ Organizations: Memorial, Kremlin Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russia

☆ The NATO Welcoming Sweden Is Larger, More Determined
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Steven Erlanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN — Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago was an enormous shock to Europeans. Used to 30 years of post-Cold War peace, they had imagined European security would be built alongside a more democratic Russia, not reconstructed against a revisionist imperial war machine. There was no bigger shock than in Finland, with its long border and historical tension with Russia, and in Sweden, which had dismantled 90 percent of its army and 70 percent of its air force and navy in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. After the decision by Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, to try to destroy a sovereign neighbor, both Finland and Sweden rapidly decided to apply to join the NATO alliance, the only clear guarantee of collective defense against a newly aggressive and reckless Russia. With Finland having joined last year, and the Hungarian Parliament finally approving Sweden’s application on Monday, Mr. Putin now finds himself faced with an enlarged and motivated NATO, one that is no longer dreaming of a permanent peace.

Persons: BERLIN, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: Soviet Union, NATO, Finland Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Soviet, Hungarian

☆ U.S. Imposes Major New Sanctions on Russia, Targeting Finance and Defense
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Alan Rappeport | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The United States on Friday unleashed its most extensive package of sanctions on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago, targeting Russia’s financial sector and military-industrial complex in a broad effort to degrade the Kremlin’s war machine. The sweeping sanctions come as the war enters its third year, and exactly one week after the death of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, for which the Biden administration blames President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. With Congress struggling to reach an agreement on providing more aid to Ukraine, the United States has become increasingly reliant on financial tools to slow Russia’s ability to restock its military supplies and to put pressure on its economy. Announcing the sanctions on Friday, President Biden reiterated his calls on Congress to provide more funding to Ukraine before it is too late. “The failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will not be forgotten,” he said in a statement.

Persons: Aleksei A, Biden, Vladimir V, Putin, “, ” Organizations: Congress Locations: States, Russia, Ukraine, United States

☆ Documentary Download: Ukrainian Stories of Sustenance and Strife
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Veselka, the Ukrainian diner on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is one of the few restaurants in the city that truly deserves to be called venerable, even iconic. Veselka has also become a center for New York’s support for embattled Ukrainians, as shown in Michael Fiore’s new documentary, “Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World.” (David Duchovny narrates.) Veselka’s third-generation proprietor, Jason Birchard, is of Ukrainian ancestry, and many of the staff are from the country as well. The film (in theaters now) starts as a fun story about a New York institution, and its tone is resolutely hopeful and convivial. I wrote about “Navalny,” Daniel Roher’s Oscar-winning documentary that covers his opposition to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and thought of other films that help illuminate the war in Ukraine years into the struggle.

Persons: Veselka, Michael Fiore’s, David Duchovny, Jason Birchard, Birchard, Aleksei A, “, ” Daniel Roher’s Oscar, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: Center of Locations: America, New York, Russian, Ukraine

☆ Unpredictable Strongman? Two Years Into War, Putin Embraces the Image.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After President Biden called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a “crazy S.O.B.” this week, the Kremlin was quick to issue a stern condemnation. But the image of an unpredictable strongman ready to escalate his conflict with the West is one that Mr. Putin has fully embraced after two years of full-scale war. At home, the Kremlin is maintaining the mystery over the circumstances of the death last week of Aleksei A. Navalny, preventing the opposition leader’s family from reclaiming his body. In Ukraine, Mr. Putin is pressing his army to maintain its brutal offensive, boasting on television that he stayed up all night as the city of Avdiivka fell to Russian forces.

Persons: Biden, Vladimir V, Putin, Aleksei A Organizations: Kremlin Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Avdiivka, Russian

Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicLast week, the Russian authorities announced that Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and an unflinching critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, had died in a remote Arctic prison at the age of 47. Yevgenia Albats, his friend, discusses how Mr. Navalny became a political force and what it means for his country that he is gone.

Persons: Aleksei A, Vladimir V, Putin, Yevgenia Albats, Navalny Organizations: Spotify

☆ U.S. Campaign to Isolate Russia Shows Limits After 2 Years of War
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Edward Wong | Michael Crowley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration and European allies call President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a tyrant and a war criminal. The president of Brazil says that Ukraine and Russia are both to blame for the war that began with the Russian military’s invasion. And his nation’s purchases of Russian energy and fertilizer have soared, pumping billions of dollars into the Russian economy. The views of the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, encapsulate the global bind in which the United States and Ukraine find themselves as the war enters its third year. Wielding economic sanctions and calling for a collective defense of international order, the United States sought to punish Russia with economic pain and political exile.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Biden Organizations: Biden, United Locations: Russia, Brazil, Ukraine, Russian, United States, Moscow

☆ U.S. Warns Allies Russia Could Put a Nuclear Weapon Into Orbit This Year
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( David E. Sanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

American intelligence agencies have told their closest European allies that if Russia is going to launch a nuclear weapon into orbit, it will probably do so this year — but that it might instead launch a harmless “dummy” warhead into orbit to leave the West guessing about its capabilities. The assessment came as American intelligence officials conducted a series of rushed, classified briefings for their NATO and Asian allies, as details of the American assessment of Russia’s intentions began to leak out. The American intelligence agencies are sharply divided in their opinion about what President Vladimir V. Putin is planning, and on Tuesday Mr. Putin rejected the accusation that he intended to place a nuclear weapon in orbit and his defense minister said the intelligence warning was manufactured in an effort to get Congress to authorize more aid for Ukraine. During a meeting with the defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, Mr. Putin said Russia had always been “categorically against” placing nuclear weapons in space, and had respected the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits weaponizing space, including the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Mr, Sergei K, Shoigu Organizations: NATO Locations: Russia, American, Ukraine

☆ Jon Stewart Takes Notes From Tucker Carlson’s Coverage of Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Trish Bendix | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. “I just think it’s better to deal head-on with what’s an apparent issue to people,” Stewart said, defending himself. It was 20 minutes! I did 20 minutes of one [expletive] show! I would need mentorship!” Stewart said before rolling a clip of Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Persons: ’ Jon Stewart, Biden, “, what’s, ” Stewart, ” — JON STEWART “, Tucker Carlson’s, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: Netflix Locations: Russia

☆ Trump Again Compares Himself to Navalny While Discussing Legal Woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump continued to liken himself to the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny during a town hall in South Carolina on Tuesday, at one point directly comparing a civil fraud judgment against him to the case of an anticorruption activist who died in a Russian prison last week. Halfway through the town hall, the host, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, asked Mr. Trump how he would come up with the $450 million penalty issued by a New York judge last week. “It is a form of — Navalny,” Mr. Trump said. Mr. Trump did not specifically address Mr. Navalny’s death until Monday, when he posted on social media that the situation was reminiscent of his legal problems. The former president faces four criminal cases, all of which he has attributed to President Biden, although Mr. Biden has no oversight over them.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, liken, Aleksei A, Fox, Laura Ingraham, Mr, Navalny, Vladimir V, Putin, Navalny’s, Biden Locations: Russian, South Carolina, New York, Russia

☆ U.S. Prepares ‘Major Sanctions’ Against Russia Over Navalny’s Death
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration is preparing “major sanctions” against Moscow in response to the death of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, a White House official said on Tuesday. John F. Kirby, a National Security Council spokesman, said the sanctions would be announced on Friday. President Biden has said there is “no doubt” that Vladimir V. Putin’s government was behind the death of Mr. Navalny. “Whatever story the Russian government decides to tell the world, it’s clear that President Putin and his government are responsible for Mr. Navalny’s death,” Mr. Kirby told reporters on Tuesday. Mr. Kirby declined to detail what would be included in the sanctions package, but said it would be devised to “hold Russia accountable for what happened to Mr. Navalny and, quite frankly, for all its actions over the course of this vicious and brutal war that has now raged on for two years.”

Persons: Biden, Aleksei A, John F, Kirby, Vladimir V, Navalny, Putin, Navalny’s, ” Mr, ” Organizations: White, National Security Council, Mr Locations: Moscow, Russian, Russia

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