Moscow uses similar legislation to crack down on independent news media,nonprofits and activists critical of the Kremlin,opposition says.
There is a creeping acceptance of views branding Australia and its allies as imperialists and using whataboutism to deflect moral arguments against tyrants. Much of it is home-grown.
For Russia’s elite,passing on family wealth has become more complex than ever.
Vladimir Putin is throwing everything he has got at ramping up Russia’s war machine. But it does not include one previously reliable source of cash.
Investor James Baillieu,the nephew of former premier Ted Baillieu,says the war in Ukraine has been wiped off the news cycle and the Australian government doesn’t care.
Some of the world’s biggest banks are now generating far more money in Russia than they were before the war started. It is shameful.
Authorities paint a picture of a network of associates,some blood relatives,travelling across Europe by bus with library cards sometimes under assumed names to scout rare Russian books.
The propaganda exercise comes ahead of a May 9 military parade to commemorate the end of WWII,which has become a homage to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Lack of attention to the “Global South” has come back to haunt now that Western interests are threatened by an axis of Russian,Chinese and Iranian authoritarianism.
The intelligence community has found “no smoking gun” that the Russian president was aware of the timing of Navalny’s death or that he directly ordered it.
Australian authorities are examining a proposed deal that would benefit a fund that has been described as a “slush fund” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.