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Protasevich is best known for his involvement with Telegram channel NEXTA, a news service that helped inform Belarusian activists and protesters about locations of demonstrations in summer 2020, following what some opposition supporters believe to be a rigged presidential election. Activists were met with force by the country’s security services, …

However, his purported far-right ties have been completely ignored by Western media. On Tuesday, police in Kiev announced that they had discovered Shishov’s body in a park. He had been declared missing the day before after he failed to return home after setting out for a run. An official statement …

On Tuesday, police in the city confirmed that his body had been found in a park near his home. In a statement, officials said he had been “hanged,” and that his “mobile phone and personal belongings were recovered from the scene.” Investigators have now launched a criminal probe for “premeditated …

Piers Corbyn has become a regular fixture at anti-lockdown rallies in London over the last year, getting himself arrested on multiple occasions for breaching mask mandates and other Covid-related restrictions. He’s compared mass innoculation to the Holocaust, and picketed vaccination centres. However, he’s apparently not above taking some cold, hard …

Having previously worked for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and promoting the social justice causes he often does, it may come as a surprise to some that King lives rather lavishly, according to a New York Post report highlighting King’s sprawling lakefront property in New Brunswick, New Jersey. King moved to …

A photo posted on the official presidential Twitter account on Wednesday shows Biden standing close to Tikhanovskaya, and says they met at the White House. The US “stands with the people of Belarus in their quest for democracy and universal human rights,” Biden declared, in keeping with Washington’s recognition of …

Gravel died at his home in Seaside, California, on Saturday. According to an AP report, he had been in poor health for some time beforehand. Gravel, who served in the Senate from 1968 until 1981, persistently opposed the US’ foreign military adventures. In 1971 he launched a one-man filibuster to …

“The Washington Post’s Laura Meckler spent three weeks preparing a hit piece against me,” Ruffo said Sunday on Twitter, adding that the newspaper used five “flat-out lies” to smear him. “This is how the media lies.” The WaPo article, which was published on Saturday, placed Rufo at the center of …

In an interview with the Evening Standard on Monday, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Leonard revealed that none of the 30 or so individuals present at a party on May 23, where Sasha Johnson received gunshots to the head, have spoken to police.  Leonard’s remarks, which were accompanied by a plea …

Shocking footage quickly emerged online, with reports indicating that Latypov gave a short speech from the defendant’s bench in which he accused security officials of threatening to prosecute his family if he did not confess. He was then said to have stabbed himself with a pen. In one clip, an …