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...“This is an act of intimidation with a clear intention to strengthen Navalny’s isolation from the outer world,” Navalny’s chief of staff Leonid Volkov wrote on X, formerly Twitter....
...This applies to men like Igor Girkin — nom de guerre Strelkov, or “sharpshooter”....
...They include former classmate Alexander Bastrykin, who runs the country’s chief investigative agency; former bodyguard Viktor Zolotov, who now heads Putin’s “praetorian guard”; and Igor Sechin, a longtime...
...According to Denis Volkov, an analyst at pollster Levada, many voters no longer distinguish between Mr Putin and the state....
...Igor Borisov, head of the Russian Social Institute for electoral rights in Moscow, said that the high number of votes for Mr Sobyanin from pensioners and the disabled was natural....
...Russia’s investigative committee said Igor Volkov, the mine’s director, would face criminal prosecution for the accident and numerous safety violations leading up to it....
...a struggle between rival political clans, representing what many call the liberal point of view, favouring private property and competition, while their adversaries, the so-called statists, typified by Igor...
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