It really seemed as if the story of Havana syndrome was over. Last month US Intelligence Agencies concluded that what the government now calls Anomalous Health Incidents were not the result of a secret energy weapon. Two weeks later, the NIH revealed new medical evidence concluding the victims of Havana Syndrome had symptoms but no […]
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. […]
Today marks one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russian security services while on a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg. He is accredited by the Russian Foreign Ministry. He has been detained in a small cell in the notorious Lefortovo Prison on charges of espionage. His family, his employer, and […]
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 […]
President Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s wife and daughter in California on Thursday. He promised Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya, and their daughter, Dasha, that the United States will announce sanctions Friday. Biden has been yammering about the sanctions to be announced today all week. He doesn’t even make it sound as though he will be […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is being held in a Russian prison on the charge of espionage. Today his latest request to appeal his detention was denied. A Russian court upheld Evan’s detention. The U.S. government has deemed him as wrongfully detained. He has been in the news recently because of remarks made by […]
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 […]
Mad Vlad Putin continues to poke a finger in the eye of Joe Biden. A Russian court ruled today that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s detention will be extended by two months. Make no mistake about it. This is a slap against Joe Biden and the perception of weakness that he projects to the […]
Ukraine reportedly shot down two of Russia’s top-tier aircraft over the Azov Sea. One of the planes, a Beriev A-50 is similar to an American AWACS, with a large radar dish mounted above the fuselage of the plane. The price tag of this plane is reportedly over $300 million dollars and Russia may have as […]
The U.S. is mulling a plan to give $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine that Kyiv could use for a variety of purposes, including reconstruction. There is opposition to the plan, mostly from EU countries that still have companies operating in Russia. There are also serious questions about the legality of seizing […]
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