# russia - Saturday 9 January, 2021
# Avalanche
# Avalanche
A criminal case into deaths by negligence as a result of safety violations has been opened.
# russia - Monday 28 December, 2020
# Snowstorm
# Snowstorm
Officials said that two people had been rescued by a passing vessel but hopes were quickly fading that more survivors could be found.
# russia - Saturday 26 December, 2020
# George Blake
# George Blake
Russia n news agencies reported Blake’s death today.
# russia - Friday 25 December, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Western governments say Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent
# russia - Wednesday 23 December, 2020
# Outgoing President
# Outgoing President
The bill affirms 3% pay raises for US troops and authorises more than $740 billion in military programmes and construction.
# russia - Thursday 17 December, 2020
# CAS
From The42
# CAS
And the country’s footballers will miss the World Cup in Qatar should they qualify too.
# Denial
# Denial
It’s widely suggested that Russia was behind Navalny’s poisoning in August.
# russia - Saturday 5 December, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Health officials have opened 70 vaccine centres in Moscow.
# russia - Monday 9 November, 2020
# Azerbaijan
# Azerbaijan
Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been ongoing for six weeks in the context Nagorno-Karabkh region.
# US Election
# US Election
Western allies, including the German Chancellor and Taoiseach Micheál Martin – welcomed a fresh start with Washington.
# russia - Thursday 15 October, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
# russia - Thursday 8 October, 2020
# Moscow
# Moscow
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
# russia - Tuesday 6 October, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons carried out its own analysis of samples taken from the Russia n opposition figure.
# russia - Saturday 3 October, 2020
# Armenia
# Armenia
Irish-Armenians are calling for the international community to intervene as deadly fighting continues in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
# russia - Thursday 17 September, 2020
It marks the third time in six days the Typhoons have been scrambled in response to Russia n planes.
# Belarus
# Belarus
Protesters in Belarus are seeking the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko, denouncing his landslide re-election in August.
# russia - Sunday 13 September, 2020
# Minsk
# Minsk
“I came out for freedom,” one protester said today in Minsk.
# To The Polls
# To The Polls
The vote is seen as a key test of the Kremlin’s control of local politics.
# russia - Thursday 10 September, 2020
# Microsoft
# Microsoft
Tech giant Microsoft said today it has detected and thwarted a number of hacking attempts in recent weeks.
# russia - Monday 7 September, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Chemical weapons experts have said Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent.
# russia - Sunday 6 September, 2020
# Russia
# Russia
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned a lack of support for the investigation could force Germany to rethink the German-Russia n gas pipeline project.
# russia - 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.
# russia - Thursday 3 September, 2020
# Novichok
# Novichok
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russia n defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
# russia - Wednesday 2 September, 2020
# Kremlin Critic
# Kremlin Critic
Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a statement earlier to confirm that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok.
# russia - Friday 28 August, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny’s allies insist he was deliberately poisoned and say the Kremlin was behind it.
# russia - Thursday 27 August, 2020
# Putin Critic
# Putin Critic
The West has pushed for an investigation into the sudden illness of the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
# russia - Monday 24 August, 2020
# Berlin
# Berlin
Doctors at the Berlin hospital where Navalny is being treated have said there is a possibility of long-term effects to his central nervous system.
# russia - Saturday 22 August, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny will be treated by specialists at the German capital’s main hospital.
# russia - Friday 21 August, 2020
# Siberia
# Siberia
His family and supporters believe he was poisoned.
# russia - Thursday 20 August, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny is in a “serious condition” according to his spokesperson.
# russia - Tuesday 11 August, 2020
# Alexander Lukashenko
# Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Lukashenko just won another presidential election, although the opposition has said it was rigged.
# Vaccines
# Vaccines
The World Health Organization said approval of the vaccine would require a rigorous review to show its safety.
# russia - Tuesday 28 July, 2020
# Campaign
From The42
# Campaign
Australia are the current favourites to host the tournament.
# russia - Saturday 25 July, 2020
# London
# London
In a case of ‘wrong place at the wrong time’, Dublin man Derek Conlon was caught in the centre of international espionage.
# russia - Friday 24 July, 2020
# Star Wars
# Star Wars
US Space Command said it has evidence that Moscow carried out the test on 15 July.
# russia - Tuesday 21 July, 2020
# National Security
# National Security
The Intelligence and Security Committee published its long-awaited report on Russia this morning.
# russia - Friday 10 July, 2020
# Mh17
# Mh17
A missile fired from territory controlled by pro-Moscow Ukrainian rebels blew the plane out of the sky on 17 July 2014.
# russia - Wednesday 1 July, 2020
# Bounties
# Bounties
Trump has come under increasing pressure to explain mounting media reports regarding the allegations.
# Russia
# Russia
Biden suggested Trump has abdicated his duty to protect both US troops abroad and American citizens at home.
# russia - Thursday 25 June, 2020
# Kremlin
# Kremlin
The reforms would reset Putin’s presidential term-limit to zero, allowing him to run two more times.
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