Alexei Navalny

Targeted killings spark debate within Russian opposition

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Targeted killings spark debate within Russian opposition

[ad_1] Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  KYIV — “She’ll say whatever the FSB [Federal Security Service] wants her to say,” said Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian lawmaker-turned-dissident who now lives in Kyiv. Discussing who was behind the bombing of a St. Petersburg café earlier this month — which left 40 injured and … Read more

Red carpet war as Ukrainians and Russians scrap over Oscar nominations

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Red carpet war as Ukrainians and Russians scrap over Oscar nominations

[ad_1] The Oscars are wading into a Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical minefield. Of the five films shortlisted by the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for this year’s best documentary, one is about Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and another is “A House Made of Splinters,” about a Ukrainian orphanage in the war-torn east of … Read more