By Margaret Bauman
After weeks of stoking fears of a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, (click here) Russia on April 22 announced the withdrawal of military forces from areas bordering Ukraine....
Is Vladimir Putin ready to come home to the G8?
By Anne Applebaum
...So far, (click here) the only person who has a coherent strategy for dealing with Putin is Navalny. He described it in a handwritten note he sent to Yevgenia Albats, a Russian journalist and close friend. “Everything will be all right,” he told her. “And, even if it isn’t, we’ll have the consolation of having lived honest lives.” He has already shown his compatriots that it is possible to live an honest life in a dishonest political system. It’s an invitation for others to follow. Dictatorships survive because most people are not willing to pay that high a price.
Alexei Navalny is consenting to end his hunger strike not that his own doctors are allowed to treat him.
By Matt Clinch and Holly Ellyatt
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny (click here) said Friday he will start to end the hunger strike he began on March 31.
Via his Instagram account, Navalny said it would take him 24 days to gradually end the strike, but said he was still demanding to see a doctor of his own choice. He also thanked the “good people” of Russia and around the world for their support, according to a Reuters translation.
Navalny, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics in recent years, was transferred to a prison hospital on April 19, three weeks into a hunger strike. He had been protesting against his treatment in prison, saying he had been denied urgent medical treatment....
All those that supported the President of Free Russia need to continue to do so until he is we
