Quick Glance: Biden meets Navalny's Widow and Daughter
- President Biden offered condolences and pledged sanctions against Russia.
- Navalny's death strengthened opposition against Putin in Russia.
- Biden urges support for Ukraine against Russian invasion.
Quick Glance: Navalny's Mother Receives Body
- Following the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison complex, his body was handed over to his mother, confirmed his spokesperson on Saturday.
- Navalny passed away in one of the toughest prisons in northern Siberia where he was serving a sentence believed to be politically motivated.
- Russian authorities had denied Lyudmila Navalnaya the custody of her son's body despite her presence near the prison complex.
- Navalny's supporters alleged that the Kremlin was obstructing a public funeral that could symbolize backing for Navalny's cause and his opposition to Putin.
Quick Glance: Russia opens a murder inquiry after a car bomb kills the daughter of a senior Putin friend.
- The daughter of the Russian ultra-nationalist known as "Putin's brain" was slain Saturday after her car exploded in a probable contract killing, according to the country's leading investigative authority.
- According to the statement, a murder investigation has been begun.
- "We are not a criminal state," he declared on Ukrainian TV.
- His daughter Dugina was the chief editor of the United World International website, which claimed that Ukraine would "perish" if it joined NATO, and was sanctioned by the US Treasury in March.
Quick Glance: The United States believes Ukrainians are responsible for the death of Darya Dugina in Russia, according to the New York Times.
- Officials in the United States suspected Alexander Dugin, a strong advocate of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, was the intended target of the killing.
- Alexander Dugin, a Russian political scientist and ideologue, speaks at a memorial service for his daughter Darya Dugina, who was killed in a vehicle bomb attack on August 23, 2022, in Moscow, Russia.
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- According to the Times, the US played no role in the attack on Dugina and was unaware of it beforehand.
Quick Glance: Putin's goddaughter has fled Russia after being labeled a foreign agent.
- She allegedly purchased tickets to both Turkey and Dubai in order to "confuse" Russian detectives while driving to Belarus.
- State officials in Moscow are investigating if Ms Sobchak, who allegedly criticized the invasion of Ukraine, was "funded from abroad."
- The fact that she left for Lithuania barely 36 minutes after being allowed for exit by a Belarus border guard who did not try to stop her lends credence to this theory.
- Putin has known Ms Sobchak since she was a youngster and attended her Orthodox Church christening.
Quick Glance: "Russian World" Concept: Putin Approves New Foreign Policy Doctrine
- The Russian Federation should "protect, preserve, and promote the traditions and ideals of the Russian world," according to a 31-page statement unveiled on Monday.
- Russia's President Vladimir Putin has authorized a new foreign policy doctrine based on the concept of the "Russian world."
Quick Glance: As Crimean attacks intensify, the Kremlin faces mounting domestic pressures
- Despite the fact that the conflict in Ukraine has been ongoing for almost six months, the Kremlin continues to refer to its invasion as a "special military operation" in order to preserve a sense of normalcy at home.
- However, a succession of Ukrainian attacks in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that President Vladimir V. Putin illegally grabbed from Ukraine in 2014, are putting a dent in that narrative.
- Separately, Russian troops in western Crimea opened fire on unspecified targets, according to the region's Russian governor.
- Mr. Kortunov believes the Kremlin will consider the Ukrainian strikes as "irritating," demonstrating Ukraine's ability to endanger Russian lives far from the battle lines.
Quick Glance: The Real Weapon in Vladimir Putin's "Surprise" Invasion of Ukraine is Political Apathy.
- We have already written on Putin's persistent calls to reintegrate Ukraine into the Russian fold.
- Only a few decades of political cowardice can produce politicians like Putin.
- So, the difficult question of why there is a conflict in Ukraine is not one of political knowledge, but of political apathy, if not outright apoliticism.
- Political passivity has been mainly replaced with an existential struggle.
Quick Glance: "RIP" fills a woman's Instagram comments, mistaking her for Darya Dugina
- "I'M ALIVE," Daria Dugina tweeted on her Instagram account after the daughter of a close Putin ally was killed in an explosion.
- "I am not Alexander Dugin's daughter."
- Darya Dugina, 29, died after his automobile burst as she was driving it on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday night.According to the Daily Beast, Darya Dugina was a vociferous supporter of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Quick Glance: Darya Dugina, daughter of Putin friend Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car explosion in Moscow.
- Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian politician Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car explosion outside Moscow.
- Alxander Dugin, Darya Dugina's father, aspired for a new Russian empire that included Ukraine.
- Ms Dugina died after a suspected explosive device detonated on the Toyota Land Cruiser she was traveling in, according to detectives from the Moscow area.
- He wants that empire to include Ukraine, where Russian forces are presently conducting a "special military operation" to demilitarize the country.
Quick Glance: Ukraine: Putin's commanders use financial incentives to urge soldiers in the Donbas
- On Monday, Russian forces continued their offensive in multiple Ukrainian areas, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of the possibility of more significant attacks ahead of Ukraine's 31st anniversary of independence from Soviet domination.
- According to the Ministry of Defence, "Russia is likely increasingly struggling to motivate the auxiliary forces it is using to augment its regular troops in the Donbas."
- The Kremlin is busy attempting to assign blame for the disaster, and President Vladimir Putin is fighting to conceal Ukraine's success from the Russian people, they added, as thousands of Russians leaving Crimea have flooded into the country.
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Quick Glance: Football has raised two fingers to Putin's Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the resumption of their league is imminent...
- When a league match was held in Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion, football gave Putin the finger.1
- As Ukrainian football returns, Shakhtar Donetsk will face FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.
- We're playing football and fighting for our freedom at the same time."
- Shakhtar and Metalist have made a public declaration.
Quick Glance: A snapshot of a Russian visitor reveals the position of Putin's air defenses
- A Russian tourist poses in front of a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system.
- "Maybe we are being too hard on Russian tourists," Ukraine's Defense Ministry tweeted.
- Such as this individual photographing Russian air defense positions near Yevpatoria, in occupied Crimea.
- Ukraine claims that 9 Russian airplanes were destroyed in the Crimea explosions.