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‘Even the worst possible scenario is not actually all that bad.’ Alexei Navalny’s memoir is a testament to resisting authoritarianism

No one who watched Alexei Navalny’s meteoric trajectory, from civic activist to opposition leader to the world’s most famous political prisoner, could avoid the question: how will this extraordinary saga end? Was Navalny destined to become Russia’s Nelson Mandela, a redemptive leader who guided his people from oppression to the…

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Paris 2024 Paralympics day two: athletics, plus GB strike double gold in cycling and swimming – as it happened

How the action unfolded on day two as ParalympicsGB won four gold medals, three silver and two bronze

The Guardian - UK

Feel the groove: Trump keeps on dancing – does it help his cause?

The former president has persisted with his signature dance move at campaign rallies – what does it all mean?

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Peter Reddaway obituary

Academic who played a major role in highlighting the repression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and in the founding of Index on Censorship

The Guardian - UK

Why August is one of the most dangerous months in the financial calendar

Historically, crises have often erupted in late summer, which is why this week’s mini crash set alarms ringing

The Guardian - UK

The Kremlin’s Noose by Amy Knight review – vital primer on Putin’s Russia and Boris Berezovsky’s death

The American historian and expert on Russia has written a definitive study of the flamboyant life and mysterious death of the oligarch, a confidant of Yeltsin and a man to whom Putin was once indebted

The Guardian - UK

Putin will be ruthless after the Moscow attack, but Russians don’t trust him to keep them safe

His brutal, repressive regime is good at belated investigation and torture, but lacks the capability to stop attacks happening, says Russian author Andrei Soldatov

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A look back at Queen Elizabeth II's best royal tour moments

The late Queen went on countless tours in her lifetime; we look back on some of the most significant ones

Woman & Home

Putin: The Autocrat Eyeing A New World Order

Russian President Vladimir Putin has over the past two decades built up a system of domestic repression and confrontation with the West that is almost certain to guarantee a fifth term in office on Sunday.

International Business Times

Russia’s presidential election: Putin, power, the possibility of protests

The 71-year-old president is all but certain to win another term in a vote that begins on March 15.

Al Jazeera

The mysterious, violent and unsolved deaths of Putin’s foes and critics

Alexei Navalny is latest of Putin’s opponents to have died over course of Russian leader’s nearly 25 years in power

The Guardian - UK

32 of the best royal tour moments, from Kate's show-stopping outfits to Queen Elizabeth's poignant first Commonwealth visit

A look at some of the most memorable royal tour moments in history.

Woman & Home

Key Moments In Vladimir Putin's Rule

From the rise of the former KGB officer to the Kremlin to his invasion of Ukraine, AFP looks at key moments in the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is bidding to remain in power until 2030.

International Business Times

Russian rap has long held up a mirror to Russian society – and the current reflection isn't flattering

In retrospect, rap in 1990s Russia was truly free. How so? Look around: the bright post-Soviet future of which Russians caught a glimpse during the 1990s has collapsed, replaced with something much darker, with one of its victims being rap.

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GOP's House paralysis is a crisis in a time of crises

House Republicans fired one leader, Kevin McCarthy, and have spent almost three weeks trying unsuccessfully to choose another to succeed him as speaker of the House. That’s left the U.S. House of Representatives unable to do its work, paralyzing the entire legislative branch of government, because the Senate can’t pass…

Reason

Chicago: From Stacker of Wheat to Stacker of Wheat Thins!

Mayor Brandon Johnson should remember the sorry history of state-run supermarkets.

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How Russian history and the concept of 'smuta' (turmoil) sheds light on Putin and Prigozhin – and the dangers of dissent

In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralised control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition.

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Al Jazeera

‘My Fears and Hatred’: Navalny lambasts the 1990s democrats of Russia

Jailed opposition leader slams those charged with rebuilding Russia’s politics and economy after the Soviet collapse.

The Conversation

More corrupt, fractured and ostracised: how Vladimir Putin has changed Russia in over two decades on top

Vladimir Putin’s own version of history casts himself as modern Russia’s bulwark and champion.

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

Al Jazeera

Belarus role in Russia-Wagner feud ‘boosts Lukashenko’s clout’

President Alexander Lukashenko has trumpeted his ‘peacekeeping’ role in quelling the Wagner rebellion in Russia.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Russian roulette: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rebellion sputters out but the Ukraine war continues

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept…

The Independent UK

Musician Travis Leake spoke up about freedom of speech in Russia with Anthony Bourdain in 2014. Now he’s been detained

Russia has a history of arresting Americans to be used as political leverage against the US, Gustaf Kilander reports

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