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Vladimir Putin

Putin’s Triumph

The recent impressive victory of Vladimir Putin for the presidency of the Russian Federation was expected and it is generally believed that even in a Western type of competitive democratic politics he would have won by a comfortable majority.

Navalny & Novichok

On Wednesday, the German government confirmed the doctors’ fears ~ Navalny (44) had been poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent from the Novichok “family”, a potent chemical weapon, developed by the Soviet Union, that was used at least once before in recent years in an attack on a Kremlin enemy.

The laced cup

Two years ago, Pyotr Verzilov, an Opposition activist slipped into coma in similarly mysterious circumstances and battled death for over a month, until doctors in Germany, where he was flown, managed to save him.