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Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been located in a remote penal colony in Siberia after his lawyers and associates have been unable to contact him for nearly three weeks, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. Navalny was located in IK-3 in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous […]
ABC News (MOSCOW) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been located in a remote penal colony in Siberia after his lawyers and associates have been unable to contact him for nearly three weeks, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. Navalny was located in IK-3 in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug part […]
Craig Hastings/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A Russian national was charged after allegedly sneaking onto a plane in Denmark bound for Los Angeles International Airport — and not telling the FBI why he was headed for the United States. Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava allegedly flew to LAX from Copenhagen, Denmark, on Nov. 4 despite not being […]
belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s team says they don’t know where he is after the prison camp where he was being held told them he’s no longer there, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. The spokeswoman, Kyra Yarmysh, said his lawyers tried to see Navalny on Monday at the prison but […]
SERGEI ILNITSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has hailed deepening relations between Russia and North Korea during his two-day diplomatic trip to Pyongyang in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Lavrov arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday, flying from Beijing where he […]
Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following an “abnormal situation” and crashed on Saturday, Roscosmos said in a statement to Interfax, a Russian news agency. Moscow’s lunar […]
FrankRamspott/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled “near Alaska” last week but “was not considered a threat,” U.S. Northern Command said Sunday. “Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted operations to assure the defense of the United States and Canada,” a NORTHCOM statement to ABC News said, adding that […]
belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Moscow court has extended the detention of Travis Leake, an American man detained by Russia on drug charges. Heavily armed Russian police arrested Leake in early June at his apartment in Moscow, accusing him of selling narcotics. Leake, 51, had lived in Russia for more than a decade, working […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Russian fighter jet fired flares directly at an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria on Sunday, damaging its propeller, according to U.S. Air Forces Central — the latest in a string of what military officials have denounced as risky and provocative behavior. The drone was on a counter-terrorism mission […]
US Air Force (WASHINGTON) — For a second straight day on Thursday, Russian fighter jets harassed American military drones flying over eastern Syria by dropping parachute-borne flares in their flight path, the Pentagon said. Once again, the U.S. military labeled the provocative act as “unsafe and unprofessional” and called on Russia to cease its risky […]
