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Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled former oligarch and one of Vladimir Putin’s best-known critics, has campaigned for years to end the Russian leader’s rule. Over the weekend, as Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellious fighters advanced towards Moscow, Khodorkovsky stood out among Russia’s liberal pro-democracy opposition in calling for people to […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The attempted rebellion over the weekend against President Vladimir Putin by the Russia-backed private military company the Wagner Group, run by former Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin, shocked world observers and leaders. Bill Taylor, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, spoke with ABC News’ Linsey Davis Monday evening about the situation and […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — This weekend’s attempted rebellion by the Wagner Group, a Putin-packed private military company, appeared to show some serious distrust among the Russian government and its military allies. Andrei Kozyrev, a former Russian foreign minister and author of the book “The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy,” spoke with ABC News […]
Anne-Sophie Thill/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The amount of smoke being emitted from the wildfires burning in Canada has reached the highest-ever recorded in the country as plumes make their way across the Atlantic to Europe. The typical wildfire season in Canada reaches its peak around mid-July, but the first of the hundreds […]
Sergey Alimov/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Yevgeny Prigozhin used a false pretext to lead his Wagner Group forces in an armed insurrection against the Russian state, according to a senior U.S. official. Prigozhin had been plotting ways to reverse his fortunes in the face of waning power and came up with a plan to claim his […]
Contributor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Russia continues its nearly 16-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine, political turmoil has erupted in Moscow while Kyiv tries to take back territory. A feud between Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group, and Russia’s top military brass escalated as Prigozhin’s forces left the front line in […]
Contributor/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Russian President Vladimir Putin was briefed Saturday on an “attempted armed rebellion,” the Kremlin said, after the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group claimed control of military facilities in Rostov-on-Don, a key Russian city near the Ukrainian border. Forces loyal to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary leader, were traveling north toward Moscow in […]
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Canada has announced that it will begin putting individual warning labels on cigarettes and other tobacco products in an effort to further reduce their appeal, becoming the world’s first country to use such a measure. Beginning on Aug. 1, Canada will implement a phased approach that will force cigarette […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (LONDON and BERLIN) — German authorities said Thursday that “a number of items were seized” in Portugal during a renewed search for missing British child Madeleine McCann. “These will be evaluated in the coming days and weeks,” the Braunschweig District Attorney’s Office in Germany said in a statement. “It is not yet […]
Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (KHARTOUM, Sudan) — Sudan is on the brink of collapse as forces loyal to two rival generals are battling for control of the resource-rich North African nation. The ongoing conflict has left hundreds of people dead, thousands more wounded and hundreds of thousands displaced, according to figures from the United […]
