Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has given the order to his own troops to shoot law-enforcers from other Russian republics if they do not coordinate their operations in Chechnya with his own police, Snob.ru reported.
Earlier we reported that amid escalating fighting, and heavy Russian armor movement on both sides of the border, Russia has accused the U.S. of sending its soldiers into eastern Ukraine to train the Ukrainian military…
As we have been reporting, the last 24 hours have seen more ceasefire violations than we have seen since major fighting ended after the battle of Debaltsevo in February. But there are more signs that things may be heating up, and rapidly, in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military’s ATO press center claims today that Russian-backed forces committed 30 violations of the ceasefire between 18:00 and midnight yesterday.
Opposition leader Alexey Navalny reported today that he hadn’t received a notice of the court hearing today, and learned about it from journalists.
Security has been tightened at the Lyublinsky Court in Moscow today, April 23 as a review of the case of opposition leader Alexey Navalny is expected, Gazeta.ru reported.
Aleksandr Dugin, the ultranationalist Russian idealogue and advocate of Eurasianism will be taking part in a seminar at Texas A&M University via remote, an organizer said on his Facebook events page.
French President François Hollande has met Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and has said that the delivery of Mistral Warships which Russia has purchased, for the moment at least, “in the context we all know, isn’t possible.”
An opposition member in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk reports reprisals for his activity, a fellow opposition member said on his Twitter feed.
Novosti Donbassa reports that the ATO press centre has claimed that Russian-backed fighters have attacked Ukrainian positions 32 times between midnight and 18:00 today. This marks a dramatic increase in the number of attacks, suggesting that the calm we saw at the start of week is well and truly over.
