PROTEST TO OUST ‘PUTIN’S PUPPET’ ORBAN OUT
Tens of thousands of protesters in Budapest have gathered against the government of Viktor Orban, led by lawyer Peter Magyar, who recently launched a political movement to challenge the prime minister. The march was led by Magyar, who used to be married to Orban’s former justice minister Judit Varga and Continue Reading
PUTIN’S POLITICAL PRISONERS
A British political prisoner in Siberia is almost certain to die unless freed soon, according to a prominent human rights campaigner. Vladimir Kara-Murza is one of at least 700 political prisoners currently held in Russian jails, nearly three times as many as at the end of the Soviet era. All Continue Reading
PUTIN WARNS WORLD WAR “ONE STEP AWAY”
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a dire warning to Western nations that a direct confrontation between Russia and the NATO military alliance, led by the United States, would bring about the third World War. Putin added that such a scenario was extremely unlikely to occur. The Ukraine conflict Continue Reading
The Dubious World of the Honorary Consul Investigated
One of the least-examined professions in foreign diplomacy is that of “honorary consul,” according to the ICIJ’s (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) recent research into Shadow Diplomats. ICIJ and its media partners have been working for months to document the patterns of abuse carried out by thousands of dishonest honorary Continue Reading
Alexei Navalny facing ‘deeply disturbing’ treatment in prison
Russia: Alexei Navalny facing ‘deeply disturbing’ treatment in prison, according to reports Alexei Navalny was transferred from penal colony IK-5 to penal colony IK-6, where his treatment by the administration and colony guards has become harsher. He has been placed in a punishment cell four times, and is denied family Continue Reading
Two Briton’s Sentenced to Death by Separatist Russian Court
Two British men and a Moroccan man have seen a death sentence imposed on them after they were caught whilst fighting for Ukraine by a Russian Separatist Court in Donetsk Former Royal Anglian soldier Shaun Pinner, 48, and Nottinghamshire’s Aiden Aslin, 28, were filmed being brought before what is said Continue Reading
