Obscenity-loving Joe delivers ‘rude’ shock for Kremlin
An angry response from the Kremlin after Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a ‘crazy SOB’ has been followed by a quite different spin from Putin himself.
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Putin’s regime a return to Russia’s bloody past
While mimicking the worst features of Russia’s history, Putin’s regime unlike its predecessors does not even feel the need to hide its crime.
Navalny’s martyrdom reflects new age of thugs and dictators
Faced with death, Alexei Navalny’s refusal to bow to Putin exemplifies hope and resilience unique to a modern martyrdom perpetrated by a totalitarian regime.
Banducci heads to self-checkout
So Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci has checked out. Presumably that was self-checkout, since checkout operators are well nigh extinct.
Coalition call for Russia sanctions
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham has urged the Albanese government to impose further sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his officials.
Navalny doco all the more haunting today
The very first question that Alexei Navalny, the Putin dissident who died last Friday in a remote Arctic Jail, is asked in this Oscar-winning documentary is “If you are killed, what message do you leave behind?”
Navalny’s heroism – and death – spoil Tucker’s pro-Putin hoedown
Carlson’s sycophancy in his sit-down with Putin may have been tolerable. The truly embarrassing moments came afterwards with his role as Moscow travel vlogger.
Courage in the wake of Navalny
The way Russians have defied the dictatorship to express their outrage over the dissident’s fate suggests the smugness Putin displays on television may not be all it appears.
Will Navalny’s death provoke Putin’s overthrow?
Alexei Navalny’s death will hopefully promote a groundswell of dissident patriotism in Russia that could lead to the downfall of the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.
How Russians and the West failed Navalny
The dissident might still be alive if his countrymen showed the same courage that Ukrainians have.
Navalny widow vows to take up the fight for Russia’s ‘freedom’
The announcement that Yulia Navalnaya will replace Alexei Navalny is a momentous and unpredictable turn for Russia’s exiled opposition, left leaderless after his death.
Trump worst president ever, Biden 14th best: experts
Donald Trump rated the worst president ever according to US political scientists, as he is slammed for failing to condemn Vladimir Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny.
Labor’s leaders lack courage to defend freedom like Navalny
With few foreign policy principles, Labor does whatever it thinks is the minimum necessary to satisfy the US we’re on board. Alexei Navalny, we are surely not.
Gaza war approaching key point
The cause of unity between the PA and Hamas will be on the agenda at a summit of Palestinian leaders in Moscow next week, brokered by that great guardian of human rights, Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s threats, Tay-Tay and solar blight
Sudden death syndrome is apparently a lethal virus that strikes anyone who threatens Vladimir Putin’s sphere of influence.
Navalny’s death tightens Putin’s totalitarian grip
Russia’s leading dissident died in appalling, suspicious circumstances.
PM blames Putin for death of dissident Navalny
Anthony Albanese has blamed Vladimir Putin for the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, declaring he was ‘shocked and saddened’.
The man Vladimir Putin feared most
Anti-corruption campaigner whose outspoken charisma and sharp tongue made him the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Putin.
Alexei’s Mandela hopes assassinated
Alexei Navalny wanted to be the Nelson Mandela of Russia but instead has become its Martin Luther King, says a prominent Putin critic.
Alexei Navalny’s death marks end of political dissent in Russia
Street protests and political activism tolerated by Putin before the war in Ukraine have largely vanished.
Russia claims ‘full control’ of Ukraine town
Facing ammunition shortages and outnumbered on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces announced they had withdrawn, as Putin congratulated his military on an ‘important victory’.
‘Putin will pay’: western leaders mourn Navalny
Supporters of Alexei Navalny turned out across the world, with many quick to blame Russian leader Vladimir Putin for killing his main critic.
Navalny’s death gives Putin much to smile about
Despite being behind bars since January 2021, Alexei Navalny had remained a thorn in the Kremlin’s side. Now the Russian opposition has been deprived of its best-known and bravest figure, dimming hopes for a brighter future.
Navalny shined unrelenting spotlight on corruption
Savvy critic Alexei Navalny’s charges of graft resonated among Russians and made him a thorn in Putin’s side.
Putin nemesis Navalny dead in prison
Alexei Navalny, a fierce anti-corruption campaigner who galvanised the country’s political opposition, has died in prison, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
‘I had no choice. I left behind everything’
Bolshoi Ballet star Olga Smirnova was a Russian hero until she fled the country in protest at Putin’s war. Now she’s dancing for Ukraine.
Mines and 1000 bunkers await Putin
In the early 1990s a Latvian officer was asked how long his force might hold out against a Russian invasion. ‘About 12 minutes,’ he replied. No so today.
PM’s dangerous terrain in a second Trump presidency
The Albanese government will face a fraught and dangerous experiment in dealing with Trump if he prevails at the election. Every Labor interest will favour Biden.
Donald Trump and NATO deterrence
Donald Trump says many provocative things, often intentionally. But his comments about about Putin and NATO is the reason many Americans won’t vote for him even against a mentally declining Biden.
Reports of Putin’s death were exaggerated but did it matter?
Tucker Carlson interviewed a doppelganger, claims Valery Solovei, who has attracted a huge following by speculating that the Kremlin leader’s real body is in a freezer
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