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Wednesday 28 October 2020
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
One was installed at his residence and two more at the Kremlin, according to his spokesman.
The incident came on the eve of the Day of Security Service in Russia.
The protests come following a refusal to allow some opposition politicians to run in the September polls.
The rally came a week after the capital’s biggest demonstration in years.
Ivan Golunov was detained last week after being charged with attempting to deal a “large amount” of drugs.
Sex, as a subject, remains largely an unmentionable in Russia.
There were 78 people including crew members on board the plane.
This is far later than previously acknowledged.
Paul Whelan, who has denied the charges, could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.
It’s the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West.
The incident occurred in Sheremetyevo airport at around 8pm yesterday.
Over the weekend, Trump announced a withdrawal from a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.
The Kremlin has rejected past charges about its involvement in the case.
Putin said the two men do not work for the military and called on them to come forward.
The 37-year-old is said to have undergone a medical with Spartak officials in Rome.
His task is to ” promote the further development of Russian-American relations in the humanitarian sphere”.
A probe found she was having regular unauthorised meetings with the main Russian intelligence agency, the FSB.
The four members ran onto the pitch at Moscow’s Luzniki stadium in the second half of the World Cup final between France and Croatia.
They were found guilty of “grossly violating the rules for spectators’ behaviour” and given the maximum punishment possible under the charge.
The driver says he ran away from the scene because he was afraid of being attacked.
Russian police arrested a 37-year-old man who used a metal pole to break the glass covering the painting.
The investigations have been launched on the back of the Salisbury nerve agent attack in March.
Yury Filatov said it was “absolutely ridiculous” to suggest Russia was covering up any chemical attack.
The Russian Military says it has proof that the attack was staged on orders from London.
The Kremlin has denied its involvement in the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in Salisbury.
Tensions are rising after the UK said it was likely Russia was behind a recent poisoning attack on an ex-spy.
The plane took off from Moscow on Sunday and went down in a field around 70 kilometres southeast of the city shortly after.
71 people lost their lives in yesterday’s crash near Moscow airport.
Around 65 passengers and 6 crew members were on board the regional flight destined for Orsk.
Earlier, police raided the Moscow office of Navalny as the demonstrations calling for a boycott of Russia’s presidential election took place.
Authorities have not mentioned terrorism as a possible cause.
Video footage shows the bus driving down into the underpass, hitting a number of people.
A station close to the Mayak nuclear facility in the Chelyabinsk region detected “extremely high pollution”.
The assailant attacked Tatyana Felgengauer at the radio station where she worked.
Over 30 locations were temporarily emptied after anonymous threats.
Trump’s personal lawyer has said the president’s company pursued a Trump Tower in Moscow during the Republican primary.
Russian outlets say a guard and a court official were injured.
The call is in response to fresh US sanctions against Moscow.
THE HSE IS today expected to outline that the contact tracing system is “back on track” after its capacity was surpassed due to a surge in Covid-19 cases earlier this month.
It is understood that Oireachtas Health Committee will be told that the contact tracing system’s capacity was surpassed when the number of Covid-19 cases sharply increased at the start of the month, but that it has gotten back on track since 23 October.
In July, the HSE launched its Covid-19 contact tracing app, which is intended to help contact tracing, particularly with people who aren’t family and friends, and uses Bluetooth technology to determine whether you’ve been a close contact of someone who’s tested positive for the virus.
Users are encouraged to switch on their Bluetooth settings, and to check in with their symptoms every day.
So, today we want to know: Are you still using the Covid-19 contact tracing app?
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