WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is due to meet President Joe Biden in Washington where he is expected to arrive Dec. 21 on his first foreign trip since the Russian invasion began as Congress prepares to vote on a bill sweeping spending bill that includes a provision to allocate more than $40 billion in …
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WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian custody after nine months in custody. A White House spokesperson said Griner was receiving “mental health care” in Texas. A criminal justice expert told Insider it’s impossible to know how long it will take for Griner to rehabilitate. Loading Something is loading. Thank you for your …
Comment this story Comment When Vladimir returned from the front line to his hometown in Siberia, his wife barely recognized him. The nice young man she married in college was gone. Instead, she now lived with an isolated and abusive husband who regularly drank himself to oblivion, beat her brutally and tormented their three children. …
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CANBERRA, Australia — Moscow must be held accountable for Russian cybercriminals accused of hacking into Australia’s largest health insurer and dumping its customers’ personal medical records on the dark web, Australian officials said on Friday. The Australian Federal Police have taken the unusual step of assigning responsibility for the unsolved cybercrime that resulted in the …
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Sławomir Dębski is director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs and a Polish historian. For the past five decades, Germany’s elected officials have knelt before monuments erected to commemorate the unspoken brutality of World War II, delivering speeches that underscore “their historic responsibility” and the need for reconciliation. One would expect these innumerable mea …
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Press play to listen to this article Jamie Dettmer is Opinion Writer at POLITICO Europe. It’s hard not to savor the irony of the abrupt departure of Russian celebrity and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, who fled midweek to Lithuania after police raided her villa on the outskirts of Moscow. and arrested one of his …
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CNN — A resident of Kherson described the situation in the Russian-occupied city as tense, with people “emotionally drained”, empty streets from mid-afternoon and Russian soldiers often seen in civilian clothes. The woman was reached by CNN through a third party and was speaking shortly before the Russian-appointed administration in the city ordered civilians to …
