Day: February 28, 2021
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‘They Will Break You’: Inside Navalny’s Notorious New Prison Home
Russian officials said Sunday that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is in a prison colony in Vladimir region, three hours outside Moscow, where he will spend the next two and a half years. Four former inmates of penal colony IK-2 — which Russian state media have identified as the institution where the opposition leader will do…
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Struggling Czech Republic Turns to Russian Jabs After EU Delays
The hard-hit Czech Republic has requested a delivery of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine in response to the delayed arrival of EU-procured jabs and will also consider Chinese inoculations, the president said Sunday. The EU member tops the world in new infections per 100,000 people over the last 14 days and is second only to neighboring…
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Russia Launches its First Arctic Monitoring Satellite
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday carrying Russia’s first satellite for monitoring the Arctic’s climate, the Roscosmos space agency said. Video published by the Russian space agency showed the Soyuz blaster launching against grey skies at 06:55 GMT, carrying an Arktika-M satellite. Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin wrote…