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    Mar 16

    Reindeer herders in far-off Yakutia aren't going to tip Russia's presidential election - but with the Kremlin keen to show support for Putin, every vote counts. My report from the polling booth at the ends of the earth, with photos by

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  2. 7 hours ago

    After Russian TV played what it claimed was a phone call from Yulia Skripal, UK police issues a statement from her: “I woke up over a week ago now and am glad to say my strength is growing daily."

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  3. 9 hours ago

    The Kremlin says the US can't sanction Russian oligarchs because there aren't any 🤔 

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  4. 9 hours ago

    You may recall that the remote village that got Wikipedia banned in Russia three years ago is called Cherny Yar. What is up with all these yars?

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Yet another episode in Russia's small-town internet censorship saga. Intrepid reporter reports on Bely Yar, the village in remote Siberia that got Russia's largest gay site banned despite all of two people from there having visited it

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    22 hours ago

    “Russia’s advantage in the propaganda battle is that it does not need to convince other countries to act: it can prosper by sowing doubt and delay.” Astute analysis by and via

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  7. Apr 4

    A cafe in an expensive part of central Moscow. Two well-dressed middle aged ladies are sitting at the next table. - Ты пиво будешь, или ты боишься? - Я же к нотариусу пойду! - Ладно, значит можно чуть-чуть.

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  8. Apr 1

    Magomedov shot up from nowhere to become a billionaire during Medvedev’s presidency while his college classmate was a top aide. Since then, his fortunes have risen and fallen with Medvedev’s. wrote the key profile on his rise

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  9. Apr 1

    Our latest on the Magomedov case. Some people close to the oligarch think Rosneft’s Igor Sechin is behind it - but others see a wider political game amid jockeying ahead of Putin’s new term

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  10. Apr 1

    My bad - the Bloomberg story said they had split but it wasn't clear whether they divorced, which fits with what I heard.

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  11. Apr 1

    Another fun fact about Natalia Popova: she moonlights as a model and filmed this documentary on state TV about how great a business partner for Russia Abu Dhabi is, including an interview with... Kirill Dmitriev!

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  12. Apr 1

    Fun fact about Natalia Popova, Kirill Dmitriev's wife and Putin's daughter's best friend: she owns two servals, wild African cats that live in her house in a glitzy Moscow suburb

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  13. Apr 1

    Remember Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian fund manager whom Robert Mueller suspects of building secret back channels to the Trump administration? Turns out he's a very close member of the Kremlin family - by way of marriage to Putin's daughter's best friend

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  14. Apr 1

    That Russia is trying to make May's "highly likely" assessment some sort of meme implying the UK has no idea who poisoned Skripal shows you how tone-deaf they are to the severity in British understatements - for all the hammy British accents Russia Today hosts affect

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  15. Apr 1

    Russia Today gives the Skripal case the full-on Question More treatment, but not very convincingly

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    UK may have staged poisoning to rally people against Russia – Moscow
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    Apr 1

    Russian governor resigns over deadly blaze at shopping mall

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    Apr 1

    WATCH this: state propaganda hijacks American broadcasting......alarming but also depressing!

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    How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media:
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  18. Mar 31

    Aman Tuleev, the Kemerovo governor who seemed more concerned about appeasing Putin after the Siberian mall fire than the victim’s families, has resigned after all. Putin has appointed a Timchenko business partner in his stead

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  19. Mar 31

    My report on the case against Russian oligarch Ziyavudin Magomedov, which seems to signal a jockeying for power among Russia’s elite as Putin prepares to begin a new term

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  20. Mar 31

    Ziyavudin Magomedov’s brother Magomed will also spend the next two months behind bars. He denies guilt

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  21. Mar 31

    Magomedov will spend the next two months in jail. He says it’s because of problems with the company helping build Kaliningrad’s World Cup stadium, but prosecutors are accusing him of running a mafia group and talk is rife of conflict with Transneft over a key port asset.

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