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Vladimir Putin's annual end-of-year press conference was thrown into disarray after messages embarassing the Russian President appeared on screen. The 71-year-old was told to "quit" in multiple messages which apearred on giant screens behind him, while he was also accused of not living the same "reality" as the rest of the country. And in another bizarre turn during the event, an AI video of Putin even asked the President whether he used body-doubles to go about his duties. In total about two million questions were submitted for answering, according to state media. The annual press conference gives Russian journalist and...

The Kremlin is unable to track individual prisoners, a spokesperson said. The Kremlin has claimed it does not know where the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is currently held and it has no intention of looking into his status. -snip- Navalny's team on Monday said he had disappeared from the prison camp where he is held and accused authorities of refusing to say where he had been moved. Peskov on Tuesday claimed the Kremlin is unable to track individual prisoners. "We have neither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners and the process of their stay...

Israel will hardly be able to ensure its security even by “drowning the Gaza Strip in blood,” Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said on Monday. “Even by decapitating Hamas and even by drowning the Gaza Strip in blood it will hardly be possible to ensure Israel's security. After some time, the tide of hatred and terrorism may rise again with renewed force. This cannot be ruled out,” Ushakov said as cited by state news agency TASS. “The Palestinian problem is unrivalled in terms of its ability to spread to the global level,” he added. “Israel's military measures fail to narrow...

Russia has placed a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list, state news agencies reported Monday. The reports said an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being sought for violating a criminal law. The independent news site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights issues, said Jamaladinova was charged under a law adopted last year that bans spreading so-called fake information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine. Jamaladinova, who performs under the stage name Jamala, is of Crimean Tatar descent. Jamala, who performed at the Kennedy Center Honors...

Moscow's troops retreated from a key position in the partially occupied southern Kherson region, state-run news agencies cited the Kremlin as saying on Monday, before retracting their reports and apologizing. The Russian Ministry of Defense was quoted by Russian state-run news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti on Monday as saying that the command of the Dnipro Group of Forces decided to transfer troops to more advantageous positions east of the Russian-occupied left bank of the Kherson Oblast. After the regrouping, the military group "will release part of the forces that will be used for an offensive in other directions," the...

A Russian anti-war protester who became a symbol of resistance to the Kremlin has died in a mysterious fall. Local media said that Olga Nazarenko had now died in hospital after a “fall from a height” two weeks ago that was described as an accident. Several Kremlin opponents have been killed in falls and an anti-war activist in Rostov, southern Russia, also died this year in police custody from alleged torture. ...Hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled since the Kremlin banned anti-war protests but Nazarenko, who was married with an adult daughter and a young son, told the US-funded...

The Kremlin on Tuesday denied a report that President Vladimir Putin was ill, and laughed off persistent rumours that he used body doubles to cover for him in public appearances. "Everything is fine with him, this is absolutely another fake," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about an unsourced report by a Russian Telegram channel, picked up by some Western media, that the president had suffered a serious health episode on Sunday evening. The spokesman laughed in response to a further question about body doubles, and denied that Putin had any.

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China's special envoy to the Middle East, Zhai Jun, on Friday, said that Beijing shares the same position as its ally Russia on the Palestinian issue and are planning to work together to broker a peace deal and a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. "The fundamental reason for the current situation of the Palestine-Israel conflict is that the Palestinian people's lawful national rights have not been guaranteed," said Zhai in a statement released by the Chinese foreign ministry on Friday, a day after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin's special representative Mikhail Bogdanov in Qatar.

The puppy was named Umka PSKOV, October 8./TASS/. A schoolgirl from the western Russian city of Pskov has received an Akita Inu puppy as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the press service of the Pskov Region's government has said. "On this day a schoolgirl received a present from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The country's leader fulfilled the girl's longtime dream of having her own pet dog, Vika has long been dreaming about having an Akita Inu puppy," the statement says. When Vika saw the puppy, she burst into tears of joy. The puppy was named Umka. "I'm very...

@DougAMacgregor The Israeli losses are predicted to exceed 1,000 dead. It is inconceivable that the IDF had NO ready forces positioned in the South or the North to deal with potential violence on the anniversary of 1973. At the same time, the Arabs did what they never do. They shut up. In this sense, it’s reminiscent of two conditions. First, Custer and his column were annihilated because the hostile tribes did something they had never done: They united and stood their ground. Normally, they were divided and fled as soon as Army Regulars showed up. He rushed in thinking that...

Tucker Carlson has denied that he is launching a television show in Russia after a bizarre advertisement with his face and name popped up on Vladimir Putin's state TV. Firebrand presenter Carlson, 54, said he had no idea his likeness was even being used until it was brought to his attention by a journalist. According to BBC media monitoring expert Francis Scarr, a Russian advert showing Carlson's face said: 'The high-profile American presenter is moving to another level. Here.' It was spotted on Russia's rolling news channel Rossiya 24 - insinuating that Carlson has landed himself a new job in...

MOSCOW, September 25. /TASS/. Ukraine is fated either to capitulate on Moscow’s terms or cease to exist as a state, Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament), said. "When speaking about the conflict in Ukraine, [US President Joe] Biden, [NATO Secretary General Jens] Stoltenberg and other Western officials have started calling it 'a war of attrition.' They have put huge amounts of money into militarizing the Kiev regime. Where has it gotten them? The simple facts are these: the West is experiencing weapons and ammunition shortages, people in Europe and the US have lost trust...

Russian TV news channel Rossiya 24 aired a trailer for a weekend show featuring former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson. There is no official word on when the show will air. Rossiya 24 is a state-run channel. It has not issued any statement mentioning the possibility of Carlson being involved via a show. The former Fox anchor is currently running his show on X (formerly Twitter) after quitting the company in April. The Russian channel's advert was first shared earlier this month. It aired again on September 22 with a note - 'on the weekend'. However, no other details were...

Just 38 percent of respondents "definitely" support the actions of Russia's Armed Forces in Ukraine, the survey by independent pollster Levada Center conducted late August found... The results come as Russia's 2024 presidential election looms, scheduled to be held on March 17 next year. Putin is expected to soon announce his bid for a sixth overall presidential term. Per constitutional changes made prior to the war in Ukraine, Putin may remain in power until 2036. Last month, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying that Russia's presidential election is "not really democracy" and forecasted a 90 percent victory for...

Russian high school seniors will return to classrooms this week to find history rewritten in the image of President Vladimir Putin. A new textbook — churned out in just four months and touted as the first state effort to unify teaching of the subject since the Soviet era — echoes Kremlin propaganda justifying the war in Ukraine, the latest stage of a drive to shape the worldview of a new generation. The book will be used by history teachers across the country, including in Russian occupied Ukrainian territories, to teach students in their final year of high school about the...

The Kremlin dismissed rumors Friday that it ordered the assassination of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reportedly died in an aviation incident after leading an uprising against Russia's military leadership. "There is a lot of speculation around the plane crash and the tragic death of the passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a briefing. "Of course, in the West, this speculation is being presented from a certain angle. All of this is an absolute lie," Peskov said. The crash on Wednesday occurred exactly two months after Prigozhin led a deadly rebellion against Moscow's top brass....

NEW YORK, August 14. /TASS/. The policy of US President Joe Biden's administration in relation to Ukraine just postpones Kiev’s defeat, former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump John Bolton wrote in an article published on The Wall Street Journal's website. According to Bolton, "Ukraine’s offensive failures and Russia’s defensive successes share a common cause: the slow, faltering, nonstrategic supply of military assistance by the West. The serial debates over whether to supply this or that weapons system, the perpetual fear that Russia will escalate to war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and occasional Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling have...

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday that Kremlin factions were destroying the state by trying to sow discord between him and Chechen fighters. -snip- Putin held a Security Council meeting of Friday about what he said were “interethnic” relations inside the country. Prigozhin said Chechen remarks made about him sounded like something out of the early 1990s when conflicts gripped Russian cities after the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Clearly the statements made were rather provocative, aimed at hurting me and freaking me out,” Prigozhin said. Prigozhin also said any battle between Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s Akhmat special...

U.S. officials reportedly believe that Ukraine was likely behind the failed drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month, along with a number of other killings and incursions on Russian territory. Intelligence officials do not know which unit was behind the drone attack, and it’s unclear if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky knew about it beforehand, The New York Times reported.