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Putin signs law allowing him to serve two more terms
The 68-year-old Russian leader, who has already been in power for more than two decades, signed off on the bill on Monday, according to a copy posted on the government's legal information portal.
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Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny goes on hunger strike
President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, who is serving a 2.5-year sentence in one of Russia's most notorious penal colonies, said he was losing sensation in both legs.
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'Takes one to know one': Putin mocks Biden over 'killer' comment
US President Biden's recent comments about the Russian president sparked the biggest crisis between Russia and the United States in years.
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Russia's Washington envoy to return to Moscow Saturday: embassy
Russia called back its ambassador over comments made by US President Joe Biden who likened his Russian counterpart to a "killer".
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Kremlin 'interested' in Elon Musk-Putin conversation
Elon Musk, one of the world's richest people, on Sunday tagged the Kremlin's account on Twitter along with the invitation to President Vladimir Putin to talk on an audio chat app.
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Putin denies he owns 'palace' as Navalny aides urge fresh rallies
Navalny's report - his most-watched anti-corruption probe by far - claims the property is worth $1.35 billion and features everything from an underground ice rink to a casino.
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Navalny releases investigation into 'Putin's palace'
The investigation, published on the opposition figure's blog with an accompanying two-hour YouTube video recorded before his return to Russia, claims the property cost $1.35 billion and was paid for "with the largest bribe in history".
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Merkel condemns Navalny arrest, demands release: spokesman
Police seized Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent, at a border control post at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday.
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Kremlin critic Navalny vows to return to Russia on Sunday
The opposition leader has been recovering in Germany from a poisoning attack.
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Putin, Merkel discuss possible joint vaccine production
The two leaders also discussed the settlement of the conflict between Kiev and pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, that has largely remained at a standstill since peace accords were signed in 2015.
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Alexei Navalny urges EU entry bans on Putin's 'close circles'
Navalny was medically evacuated to Germany in late August after falling ill on a plane and spending several days in a Siberian hospital.
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Kremlin says Navalny charges against Putin 'unacceptable'
Earlier Thursday, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament also accused the "shameless" opposition leader of working for Western security services and claimed Alexei Navalny owed his life to Vladimir Putin.
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Navalny accuses Putin of being behind his poisoning
Navalny was evacuated to Berlin for treatment after he collapsed in August while on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow after a campaign trip to support opposition candidates in local elections.
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Putin critic Navalny is out of coma, Berlin hospital says
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said her government has concluded Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the same substance that Britain said was used against a Russian double agent and his daughter in an attack in England in 2018.
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Outrage after Germany says Putin critic Navalny poisoned with Novichok
The 44-year-old last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors and critics of President Vladimir Putin to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances, and is now in hospital in Berlin.
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Germany says Putin critic Navalny poisoned with Novichok
"It is a shocking event that Alexei Navalny has become the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent in Russia," said government spokesman Steffen Seibert in a statement.
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Lukashenko gets birthday call from Putin as Belarus protests rumble
President Lukashenko, who turned 66 on Sunday, is struggling to contain three weeks of protests and strikes since winning the 9 August election that his opponents say was rigged.
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Russian opposition leader & Kremlin critic Navalny hospitalised for 'poisoning'
Alexei Navalny is in the intensive care unit for toxicology patients in Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, after an emergency plane landing.
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UK govt should probe any Russian interference in 2016 Brexit poll: lawmakers
A parliamentary report said Tuesday said oligarchs with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin used their wealth for "extending patronage and building influence across a wide sphere of the British establishment".
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Russian parliament begins legalising ban on same-sex marriage
Vladimir Putin, who has aligned himself with the Russian Orthodox Church and sought to distance Russia from liberal Western values, has said he will not legalise gay marriage as long as he is in the Kremlin.
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Putin says Russians voted 'with their hearts' to let him extend rule
The Kremlin has hailed the landslide victory as a triumph for Putin, but critics said the vote was illegal and illegitimate.
