Alsu Kurmasheva is a Prague-based Russian-American journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir Service. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is funded by the United States government. Alsu has been detained in Kazan, Russia since October 18, 2023, while she visited her mother, who was ill, on the charge of failing to register as a foreign agent. […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is approaching the one-year mark of when he was arrested by Russia’s Federal Security Service, (FSB) while on a reporting trip. A Russian court extended his pre-trial detention by three months. A trial date has not been set. He is 32 years old now and was detained on March […]
It’s 3 pm Central as I’m writing this, so there could well be more updates before posting time. But what we know so far is that, a few hours ago, gunmen entered one of the largest concert halls in a suburb known as Moscow Oblast and opened fire on the crowd within. There were also […]
Politico is reporting on a bombshell YouTube video released today by Alexei Navalny’s team that shows Navalny was killed on the eve of a prisoner swap. His close ally, Maria Pevchikh, said that a prisoner swap was imminent when Navalny was killed. Pevchikh blamed Vladimir Putin. In the video, Pevchikh explains that there were months […]
There are two stories out today that caught my attention. What they have in common is a brutal Russian crackdown on anyone who strays from the approved narrative about the war in Ukraine. First up, you may have heard about Russia big advance in Avdiivka, Ukraine. After months of trying to take this relatively small […]
Here we go again. Russia’s main security agency, the Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., said Tuesday that it had arrested a dual citizen of the United States and Russia. She is charged with committing state treason because she raised money for Ukraine. Allegedly the 33-year-old woman identified as Ksenia Karelina, a resident of […]
The world was told on Friday that Alexei Navalny is dead. World leaders denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin for Navalny’s death. Make no mistake, Putin is convinced he can get away with anything, including the murder of his political opponents, because he is not held accountable. Look no further than President Biden’s reaction to the […]
Joe Biden In 2021, Biden made us all a brave promise. He said he had personally told Putin, in no uncertain terms, that should Navalny die in prison, there would ‘devastating consequences’ for Russia. He did, no he really did! Then the other day Navalny did indeed die in prison, all of a sudden, and […]
Reality bites. There he was, creating a big ole controversy over his trip to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin and while he was on a plane from Dubai, Tucker Carlson learned about the news that imprisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny is dead. Talk about bad timing. Let me start by saying that I don’t have […]
Welp. Alexei Navalny is dead. According to the authorities at the Arctic Circle prison camp Putin had banished him to, he keeled over after a walk. Simple as that. Sure, they called an ambulance, but, oh well – too late. This is awful, but who are we talking about here? Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny […]
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