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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2023 18:38:38 GMT
Several Kremlin critics have reported being poisoned, and on Thursday French prosecutors opened an investigation into suspected poisoning after Ovsyannikova felt unwell. "I'm feeling much better now," she posted on Telegram. "Most of the test results are back. There are no toxic substances in the blood. We're not talking about poisoning." No white powder had been found, she added, contrary to what was first reported. "The deterioration of my condition was so sudden that the French police decided to investigate," she said, posting from what appeared to be her hospital bed. She said prosecutors opening an investigation was "not surprising, since Putin's Russia has long been associated with war and the poisoning of politicians and journalists". Ovsyannikova, who fled Russia last autumn, had held up a protest placard during the main evening news programme on Russia's Channel One in March 2022. In her absence, a Russian court sentenced her to more than eight years in prison this month for a separate protest she made outside the Kremlin four months later. Several high-profile opposition politicians have said they were poisoned for political reasons, including Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza.
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2023 3:02:17 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2023 3:02:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 1, 2023 12:56:46 GMT
Shinji Hyodo, research secretary at the Ministry of Defense's National Institute for Defense Studies, Professor Yoko Hirose from Keio University, and Eiji Furukawa, a journalist living in Kiv, appeared on BS Nippon Television's ''Deep NEWS'' on the 1st and discussed the situation in Ukraine.
Regarding Russia's information operations against Ukraine, Mr. Hirose said, ''It aims to divide the Ukrainian people by instilling an anti-Western mindset.'' Mr. Furukawa analyzed that ''What the Ukrainian people fear most is that the conflict between the military and the government will become decisive.'' Hyodo expressed the view that, ''It is now possible that how the centripetal force of the Zelenskiy administration changes will have an impact on the course of the war.''
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2023 0:14:39 GMT
"Vladimir Putin’s allies in the Russian cable television circuit are reportedly taking Senate Republicans’ balking over passage of a clean bill to fund Ukraine’s counteroffensive as a sign that the US’s committment to the war is deteriorating.
The Daily Beast reported that the reaction to Tuesday’s explosive confrontation between Democrats and Republicans at a briefing hosted by Biden administration defence officials was one of jubilation on Russian state media, where it was heralded as a sign of a favourable turn for Russian forces in the war.
The clearest reaction reportedly came from Olga Skabeeva, host of a Russian programme titled 60 Minutes.
“Well done, Republicans! They’re standing firm! That’s good for us,” she stated plainly.
Another Russian host reportedly declared: “This will be a great revelation to other countries. It is even more dangerous to be a friend of the United States than its enemy. In the end, they will abandon you, leaving nothing but the scorched earth on your territory,” according to the Beast."
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