Russia
‘I’ll beat you to a pulp’: Putin's ex-head of security tells Navalny
"Nobody has ever kicked your butt properly so that you’d feel it in your liver but now you came to the right person," Viktor Zolotov, the head of Russia's National Guard and Putin's ex-head of security, threatened the opposition leader.
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Russia
Russian parliamentary elections tarnished by unprecedented pension reform outcry
As Russia votes in this year's parliamentary and regional elections on September 9, the imminent victory of Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party might be tarnished by nation's outrage over highly unpopular pension reform.
World
Two Russians charged in Skripal Novichok poison case
Two Russian nationals have been named and charged in the attempted murder of Yulia and Sergei Skripal, who were poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury earlier this year. British PM Theresa May says the men's actions were not 'a rogue operation.'
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Euroviews. Turkey needs the EU - how much will it pay? | View
The key challenge for Turkey is not the form of its relationship with the EU, but the fact that it crucially needs EU markets, funds, and investment to prosper. This in turn requires the rule of law, not the rule of the arbitrary. Choices will have to be made in Ankara.
World
Russian and Syrian forces prepare for offensive in last rebel stronghold in Idlib province
Syrian government forces and Russian military are close to launching an offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Syria, in Idlib province. The UN issued a warning yesterday, saying millions of civilians in Idlib province will be in danger when the attack occurs.