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US aid cutoff poses new challenges to rights groups and independent media from Russia and Belarus

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad

The Independent UK

Kraven the Hunter review – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn

Crowe’s safari-going Russian oligarch is the main redeeming feature of this Spider-Man-adjacent tale but there’s not much to like elsewhere

The Guardian - UK

Is Putin secretly one of the world's richest men? Experts estimate a $200 billion net worth

Experts all over the world have been trying to pinpoint Vladimir Putin's exact net worth, but no matter what they do, his fortune continues to be an unsolved mystery.

Fortune

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Russia’s exiled opposition rocked by claims over hammer attack on Navalny ally

Accusations that another Kremlin critic ordered attack on Leonid Volkov throws scattered opposition into further disarray

The Guardian - UK

Poland Charges Russian Over Attack On Navalny Ally: Prosecutors

A Russian man has been charged in Poland over a hammer attack in neighbouring Lithuania on a top aide of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny earlier this year, prosecutors said on Friday.

International Business Times

Russian Opposition: Leaders Continuing Fight Despite Government Crackdown

Learn about key opposition figures in Russia after the death of Alexei Navalny, including Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Ilya Yashin.

Top News

Kremlin critics: What happens to Putin’s most vocal opponents?

During President Vladimir Putin’s rule several of his vocal critics have died or been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

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Russian oil executive who fled to UK took his own life after assets frozen over war in Ukraine

Exclusive: Mikhail Trushin was described as a ‘well liked, intelligent man’ and a ‘successful manager’

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 686

As the war enters its 686th day, these are the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as 'oligarchs' are still rich but far less powerful

When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed “Russian oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers

The Independent UK

Will Russia Ever Be Free?

Promise and peril in post-Putin Russia

Reason

What future awaits Russia’s Wagner army and its boss, Prigozhin?

Observers say Yevgeny Prigozhin is ‘doomed’ after turning on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Al Jazeera

Two Russian exiles ‘poisoned’ at conference organised by Kremlin critic

Two women fall ill in Berlin after experiencing symptoms linked to poisoning

The Independent UK

German police investigate possible poisoning of two Russian exiles

German police said they are investigating the possible poisoning of two Russian exiles who attended a conference in Berlin at the end of April, organised by Russian Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

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The Guardian - UK

Offshore cash and huge loans: leak reveals how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea’s success

Exclusive: Network of companies used to route fortune made from the oil fields of Siberia into Stamford Bridge

Foreign Policy

The West Is Preparing for Russia’s Disintegration

Amid war in Ukraine, some strategists are setting their eyes on the “decolonization” of Russia itself.

Al Jazeera

Activists, everyday Russians and a soldier punished for war talk

Almost 500 Russians have been charged under wartime censorship laws. We look at 12 cases.

The Guardian - UK

Putin opponents and Russian liberals celebrate Navalny’s Oscar success

Director dedicates award to all political prisoners after film about Russian opposition leader wins best feature documentary

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Daily Mirror

'Paranoid' Putin travels in armoured train and fears poisoning over Kremlin power struggle

The latest claims were made by Yury Shvets, 71, a former colleague of Putin's who studied with the despot at the KGB Institute. Shvets is now a US citizen leaving Russia after publishing a book describing his exploits

France 24

If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, NATO borders will 'no longer be an obstacle', warns Khodorkovsky

Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who served 10 years in prison on tax and fraud charges that many believe were politically motivated, spoke to FRANCE 24 from London, where he now lives in exile. Khodorkovsky said that while a "direct confrontation with NATO" was not part of Russian President…

Daily Mirror

World War 3 is only way to halt Vladimir Putin and 'stopping for him is death'

The terrifying warning was made by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who now lives in Britain after falling foul of Putin. In 2001 he founded Open Russia, an organisation advocating democracy and human rights

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Russia continues its relentless assault on Ukraine’s power grid; Putin rejoins UN grain export deal in humiliating U-turn; Kherson residents defy Russian call to evacuate city

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s Wagner Group ‘have as much power in Kremlin as ministers’

Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky tells UK parliamentary group of ‘terrorism’ threat

The Guardian - UK

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

The Guardian - UK

Exiled Russian calls on those still in country to ‘sabotage’ Putin’s war

Mikhail Khodorkovsky claims ‘armed resistance’ may play role, although critics say mass opposition unlikely

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