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Actor Gerard Depardieu compares Vladimir Putin to Pope John Paul II
French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia needs as a leader. Depardieu is preparing to shoot a new film in Moscow and the Chechen capital Grozny — a…
Tens of thousands protest Putin in Moscow
Tens of thousands of people turned out for a protest in central Moscow on Monday marking one year since a demonstration ahead of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin inauguration ended in mass arrests, organisers said. “The whole square is full. There are tens of thousands of us,” prominent opposition figure Boris Nemtsov…
Former Russian Olympics official personally mocked by Putin says he was ‘poisoned’
A former Olympic official who fled Russia after President Vladimir Putin criticised him for delays and cost overruns before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi claims he has been poisoned. Akhmed Bilalov, fired as deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee in February, said on Saturday that doctors had discovered elevated mercury levels in…
U.S. and Russia to bolster ties after Boston bombings
Russia and the United States agreed Saturday to step up cooperation in their fight against terror in the wake of news that two ethnic Chechens were suspected of organising the deadly Boston Marathon bombings. The Kremlin said Russian leader Vladimir Putin called US President Barack Obama to once again express…
Russia sets April 17 trial date for opposition leader
Alexei Navalny, a leading opponent of President Vladimir Putin, will go on trial in mid-April on embezzlement charges, a Russian court said Wednesday, in a case supporters claim is politically motivated. The case against Navalny, one of the most charismatic figures in the opposition movement against Putin, concerns a probe…
Limbaugh freaks out: ‘Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with’ on LGBT rights
Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh said Monday that the tide of opinion on LGBT rights has turned so sharply that he’s getting seriously freaked out “that Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with” these days. Limbaugh was specifically talking about Putin’s move to ban the adoption of Russian orphans…
Pussy Riot on 60 Minutes: ‘we’re advocating for a peaceful overthrow’
The Russian punk band Pussy Riot remains defiant against Vladimir Putin’s regime, telling 60 Minutes, “we want the government to leave power, because we consider it illegitimate. But we’re advocating for a peaceful overthrow,” during a segment that aired Sunday night. Pussy Riot made international headlines in March of 2012,…
Russian artist who impersonated Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin dies at 43
Top Russian artist, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, who painstakingly transformed himself to resemble Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin for avant-garde photo performances, has died at 43, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. Mamyshev-Monroe drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Bali, Russian news agencies reported, citing the Russian embassy in Jakarta.…
Steven Seagal and Vladimir Putin push for Soviet-era program to make Russians ‘fit for military service’
With Steven Seagal in tow, Putin pushes for Soviet-era phys-ed revival (via The Christian Science Monitor) Copyright ImageClick to View Russian President Vladimir Putin (l.) and US movie actor Steven Seagal visit a new sports arena in Moscow, Wednesday. Mr. Putin has called for the revival of the Soviet-era physical…
Church backs Vladimir Putin’s ban on Americans adopting Russian children
Russian Orthodox church criticised for supporting Kremlin again The Russian Orthodox church has been attacked for supporting a new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, at the end of a year that saw it plagued by scandal and accusations of collusion with an increasingly authoritarian Kremlin. Father Vsevolod Chaplin,…
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