Mikhail Rogachev: the death of the former Yukos vice-president and the crisis of the Russian elite
Mikhail Rogachev.Photo: Ros.media On 19 October, Mikhail Rogachev, a former vice president of the Yukos oil company, was found dead in Moscow . The 64-year-old businessman’s body was found in the yard of his house on Protopopovsky Lane. The preliminary cause of death is believed to be a fall from a window. The main version […]
Yulia Navalnaya: “I want Putin to end up in a Russian prison”
Photo: Yulia Navalnaya / screenshot from the video Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said in an interview with the British Sunday Times that she hopes to see Russian President Vladimir Putin not as a “tsar” but as an “ordinary prisoner” in a Russian prison. “I want him to go from […]
Netanyahu tells Trump that Israel will make decisions based on national interests
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country will make decisions based on its own national interests during a conversation with former US President Donald Trump. This was reported by the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday, Reutersreports . “Prime Minister Netanyahu has reiterated what he has said publicly on […]
Pope Francis canonises 14 new saints, including martyrs killed in Syria during the Ottoman Empire
Pope Francis Photo: Vatican Media/Handout via Reuters On Sunday in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis canonised 14 new saints during a ceremony, including 11 “Damascus Martyrs” killed in Syria in 1860. The event brought together thousands of believers from around the world and officials from different countries, AFP reports. Among the new […]
