Authorities, including President Vladimir Putin, have provided no evidence for the link as they sought to shift the narrative from the failure of security services to prevent the attack.
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Rush of asset-seizure cases puts Putin’s tycoons on high alert
The latest example is the nationalization of Russia’s largest pasta producer.
Russian court rejects suit by Navalny’s mother claiming poor medical treatment by prison
Navalny had been behind bars since January 2021 after returning to Russia from Germany where he had been recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
After harshest crackdown since Soviet era, Putin extends rule in orchestrated election
President Vladimir Putin has sealed his control over Russia for 6 more years with a highly orchestrated landslide.
Ukrainians living under Russian occupation are coerced to vote for Putin
At least 27 people have been arrested for refusing to vote in the occupied areas of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, according to Pavlo Lysianskyi of the Eastern Human Rights Group.
Putin again warns of nuclear response if Russian sovereignty is threatened
Moscow is ready to use nuclear weapons in case of a threat to ‘the existence of the Russian state, our sovereignty and independence,’ the Russian president said.
Thousands defy Kremlin to bid farewell as Alexei Navalny is laid to rest
The service followed a battle with authorities over the release of the body of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic, whose death is still unexplained.
Putin threatens nuclear response if Western troops are sent to Ukraine
‘What they are now suggesting and scaring the world with, all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization,’ the Russian president said in a state-of-the-nation address.
31,000 Ukrainian troops killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Zelensky says
It is the first time that Kyiv has confirmed the number of its losses since Moscow started the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
Navalny’s mother says she’s resisting pressure to agree to secret burial
On Tuesday, she appealed to Putin to release her son’s remains so that she could bury him with dignity.