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...He grew up in small military towns around the capital before gaining a law degree at university, and then studied securities trading....
...“If she has found the strength to act, we cannot afford to wallow and spread the idea through social media that they have killed our hope.”...
...Local media reports from Porokhovskoye showed armed security officials standing outside the cemetery entrance where barricades and metal detectors had been erected....
...Over two and a half decades there, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before leaving in 2013 to join Moran Security Group, a private security firm....
...A day after Prigozhin’s private funeral in St Petersburg, Kadyrov wrote on social media that as “a foot soldier” of Putin, he belonged to Russia and its interests....
...Grigory Yudin, head of political philosophy at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, said: “The internal investigation of the mutiny is completed....
...The closed-door hearing took place in a maximum-security penal colony in the settlement of Melekhovo, located east of Moscow, where Navalny was already serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and other offences...
...and financial security....
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Berlin...
...“It appears [Kadyrov’s forces] were biding their time to see what happens next,” said Samuel Bendett, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security....
...We should be extremely wary about relying on opinion polls in Russia, where anti-war dissent is a crime and to challenge the official interpretation of history is to risk being viewed as a security threat...
...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...He reconfigured it to tell the story of an imaginary family of Huguenot silk weavers who had lived there since it was built in 1724....
...A crucial audience for Putin’s attempts to restore his standing is the Moscow elite, from the political class to the security services....
...The damage to Russia’s prestige has been such that even pro-war commentators on state television and social media admit that the coup called the entire war into question....
...Syrian Christians, hired as agents for European trading houses, were prime beneficiaries of a business that undermined local weavers and merchants....
...The tensions were rooted in a policy that Scholz, a soft-spoken but steely Social Democrat, adhered to with quiet persistence....
...The expansive social network of David Geovanis, a former banker he had known since Drexel, helped....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...Security guards are posted at each of its street entrances (my taxi driver guesses the company has “something to do with the government”)....
...Courtney Weaver is the FT’s US business and politics correspondent and a former Moscow correspondent....
...“The safety and security of Americans worldwide is my highest priority as secretary of state, and we will continue to press for the release of all US nationals wrongfully detained abroad,” Blinken said....
...Courtney Weaver reports on how that role may now have backfired. We’re also reading . . . Can AI be regulated?...
...“They do not see their economic security as separate from their ability to control their reproductive health.”...
...“Our national security is a hell of a lot more important than what a bunch of political opponents to the administration are going to say.”...
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