German media giant Axel Springer announced on Monday it had hired Marina Ovsyannikova, a former video editor for Russia’s Channel One. She gained celebrity in the West after staging a protest, during a live broadcast, against the Russian attack on Ukraine. Ovsyannikova, 43, will be reporting as a freelance journalist …
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The decision to proceed with this summer’s Olympics has proven to be a controversial one among the Japanese public, with a recent poll indicating that as many as 60% of people want to see the games canceled entirely amid an ongoing spike in Covid-19 cases. But it seems they aren’t …
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A video, shared widely on social media, shows four men climb up the lamppost to get the supposed anti-Navalny demonstrator down. In the clip, one man punches the protester, while another holds onto his leg, eventually dragging him down. The crowd responds with cheers. The protest, taking place in Moscow’s Pushkinskaya …
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