# Duma Elections
# Duma Elections
The vote comes in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition.
# kremlin - Friday 17 September, 2021
# Vladimir Putin
# Vladimir Putin
His allies denounced the move as an “act of political censorship”.
# kremlin - Thursday 10 June, 2021
# Navalny
# Navalny
The group, led by critic Alexei Nalvalny, was recently branded an extremist group by a court in Moscow.
# kremlin - Wednesday 21 April, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
The Kremlin critic is on hunger strike in a Russian penal colony.
# kremlin - Sunday 18 April, 2021
# Poisoning
# Poisoning
Navalny went on hunger strike to protest the refusal to let his physicians see him in prison.
# kremlin - Monday 22 February, 2021
# Kremlin Critic
# Kremlin Critic
The EU also agreed on sanctions for Myanmar over the military’s seizure of power.
# kremlin - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Kremlin Critic
# Kremlin Critic
In his closing arguments, Navalny said that “every moment of this case is obvious legal nonsense”.
# kremlin - Wednesday 3 February, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
# kremlin - Sunday 31 January, 2021
# Kremlin
# Kremlin
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
# kremlin - Tuesday 26 January, 2021
# A Quick Chat
# A Quick Chat
The G7 group of nations also hit out at Navalny’s “politically motivated” detention in a statement today.
# kremlin - Sunday 24 January, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
# kremlin - Saturday 5 September, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
# kremlin - Thursday 25 June, 2020
# Kremlin
# Kremlin
The reforms would reset Putin’s presidential term-limit to zero, allowing him to run two more times.
# kremlin - Monday 22 April, 2019
# Volodymyr Zelensky
# Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Zelensky won a landslide victory yesterday.
# kremlin - Wednesday 18 April, 2018
# Tension
# Tension
The investigations have been launched on the back of the Salisbury nerve agent attack in March.
# kremlin - Monday 2 April, 2018
# When You Free?
# When You Free?
At the time, Trump is said to have expressed the hope the two countries could return to “constructive and serious dialogue”.
# kremlin - Tuesday 27 March, 2018
# What Do You Think
# What Do You Think
Tánaiste Simon Coveney is going to announce the Irish government’s position later today.
# kremlin - Monday 19 March, 2018
# In The Cold
# In The Cold
So far only close allies have congratulated him as Moscow’s relations with the West disintegrate.
# kremlin - Thursday 15 March, 2018
# No Other Explanation
# No Other Explanation
Russia’s foreign minister earlier threatened to respond to the deportation of Russian diplomats from the UK by kicking out British diplomats on Russian soil in turn.
# kremlin - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Salisbury
# Salisbury
A former Russian spy and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in England yesterday.
# kremlin - Tuesday 26 December, 2017
# Protests
# Protests
Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for 18 years and is expected to easily win another six-year term.
# kremlin - Sunday 24 December, 2017
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
But 41 year old lawyer Alexei Navalny has been deemed ineligible to run in the Russian election due to a criminal conviction.
# kremlin - Thursday 30 November, 2017
# Pot Luck
From The42
# Pot Luck
The potential threats of hooligans and terrorism still hang over the host nation of the 2018 finals.
# kremlin - Thursday 20 July, 2017
# Meetings
# Meetings
Three of the pivotal players in the Trump campaign will be questioned by senators next week.
# kremlin - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Chechnya
# Chechnya
Ramzan Kadyrov has faced wide international criticism since reports of serious human rights abuses.
# kremlin - Monday 12 June, 2017
# From Russia With Love
# From Russia With Love
Russian authorities detained the 41-year-old opposition leader and nearly 1,000 of his supporters.
# kremlin - Sunday 19 February, 2017
# Hacks
# Hacks
Supports of Emmanuel Macron say he is being targeted.
# kremlin - Monday 6 February, 2017
# Miffed
# Miffed
Fox host Bill O’Reilly made the assertion during an interview with President Donald Trump last night.
# kremlin - Friday 3 February, 2017
# Vladimir Kara-Murza
# Vladimir Kara-Murza
John McCain said he was “heartbroken” by the news.
# kremlin - Sunday 18 September, 2016
# Putin It Up To Them
# Putin It Up To Them
The election follows a tumultuous few years that have seen Russia seize the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine and start a military operation in Syria.
# kremlin - Thursday 1 September, 2016
# Kremz Bantz
# Kremz Bantz
The Russian President has kept Queen Elizabeth II and the Pope waiting, but recently found time to meet a group of privileged students from Britain’s elite school in possibly his weirdest photo-op.
# kremlin - Monday 1 August, 2016
# Kremlin
# Kremlin
The five people on board are believed to have died.
# kremlin - Saturday 30 July, 2016
# Russia
# Russia
Edward Snowden has publicly criticised the strategy of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
# kremlin - Thursday 12 March, 2015
# Sure He's Grand
# Sure He's Grand
The Russian president hasn’t been seen in public in a while.
# kremlin - Saturday 28 February, 2015
# Assassinated
# Assassinated
Boris Nemtsov was a fierce opponent of Vladamir Putin and was set to lead an opposition rally. He was shot in the back on a bridge near the Kremlin
# kremlin - Monday 15 September, 2014
# Opinion
# Opinion
The West needs to stop hiding behind treaties that Russia has already invalidated, writes John O’Donnell.
# kremlin - Monday 8 September, 2014
# Crisis
# Crisis
Western powers have been reactive rather than proactive in their approach to the situation all summer, writes Jack Lahart.
# kremlin - Friday 18 July, 2014
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The US President added that more sanctions could be imposed on Russia
# kremlin - Saturday 7 June, 2014
# Petro Poroshenko
# Petro Poroshenko
The billionaire ‘chocolate king’ also vowed to avert civil war, the possibility of which still looms in the south-east.
# kremlin - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Turchynov spoke of his “full-scale anti-terrorist operation” that aims to dislodge pro-Russian gunmen from their positions.
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