With Ukraine’s forces at risk of encirclement, the top military commander ordered a retreat. In startlingly candid accounts, soldiers described disarray and despair.
Tag: Russia
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Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47
The Kremlin’s fiercest critic, whose work brought arrests, attacks and a near-fatal poisoning in 2020, had spent months in isolation.
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Biden Condemns ‘Putin and His Thugs’ for Navalny’s Death
The president said that while the United States was still gathering information about the Russian dissident’s demise, he would hold President Vladimir V. Putin responsible; but he has limited options.
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Who Was Navalny? A Timeline of the Putin Critic’s Career
Starting as an anticorruption blogger, Mr. Navalny mobilized a generation of young Russians and rose to prominence for investigations into the country’s elite.
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In Prison or Out, Navalny Was the Thorn in Putin’s Side
A straight-talking former real estate lawyer, he stayed relevant even from prison, pleading with Russians not to give up or give in to their fears and railing against the “criminal” war in Ukraine.