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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday brushed aside Washington Post reports that Russia is preparing to provide Iran with a sophisticated satellite to dramatically improve Tehran's spying capabilities.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday brushed aside Washington Post reports that Russia is preparing to provide Iran with a sophisticated satellite to dramatically improve Tehran's spying capabilities.
The American daily had claimed on Thursday that this satellite, named Kanopus-V and equipped with a high-resolution camera, would allow the Islamic Republic to monitor the installations of its adversaries throughout the Middle East. This information was called nonsense by President Putin a few days before the much anticipated first summit with his American counterpart Joe Biden. This is just fake news. To say the least, I know nothing about this kind of thing, Vladimir Putin assured NBC News. According to the Washington Post, which cites current or former officials in the United States and the Middle East, the launch of the satellite could be carried out in the coming months and is the result of multiple trips to Russia by leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
The satellite would be launched from Russia and would contain equipment manufactured in Russia, according to the newspaper's sources. Although it does not have the capabilities of U.S. satellites, Iran could use it for spying on specific locations. This raises concerns about sharing information with Yemen, Iraq or Lebanon, in addition to those about Iran's development of drones and ballistic missiles, according to one of the officials interviewed by the newspaper. The acquisition of this satellite would also give Tehran a greater surveillance capacity over the Gulf, Israeli bases and the American military presence in Iraq.
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To punish her, a 23-year-old mother suspended her daughter above the void before dropping her.
On a video with shocking images, you can hear the cries of a child named Anastasia. Mommy, I'm scared, the little girl begs before taking a fatal 50-foot fall according to Life News, Anna Ruzankina, the 23-year-old mother, then comes to search for her deceased daughter to take her back to the sixth-floor apartment.
A witness, who can be seen in the video, says he heard the child's screams before hearing a thud. That's when he found the little girl bleeding on the ground.
According to reports, the mother suspended the little girl by her shirt over the void as punishment. The garment then tore. It seems that Anna Ruzankina was returning from a nightclub at the time of the incident and was drunk.
The mother was taken into custody on suspicion of killing an impotent minor. She faces up to 21 years in prison.
]]>Russia announced plans Tuesday to build the first module of its own space station by 2025, after the government hinted it might abandon the International Space Station (ISS).
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Russia announced plans Tuesday to build the first module of its own space station by 2025, after the government hinted it might abandon the International Space Station (ISS).
The first base module for the new Russian orbital station is already under construction, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Telegram. The goal is for it to be ready to be launched into orbit in 2025, he said. The announcement comes after conflicting statements from Russian authorities about their space plans. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borissov had suggested on Sunday that Moscow would withdraw from the ISS in 2025 to focus on building its own station. Roscosmos had qualified these remarks by affirming to the AFP that the decision would be taken after 2024 on the basis of the technical state" of the station. According to Moscow, the state of the ISS leaves much to be desired, with modules that have almost reached the end of their life. At the beginning of April, the flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Soloviev, estimated that the life of the orbital laboratory could be extended until 2030, while saying he expected an avalanche of failures after 2025. M.
Borissov said Monday that the aging state of the ISS presaged a catastrophe. We cannot put in danger the lives of cosmonauts, he said. According to him, the future Russian space station could be placed at a higher orbit than the ISS and serve as intermediate transfer point for flights to the Moon. The operation of the ISS is one of the last areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States, which have been experiencing a period of heightened tensions since 2014. Russia has announced a number of ambitious projects in space in recent years, but most of them are struggling, like the spacecraft and heavy launcher set to replace the reliable but aging Soyuz system. Space cooperation with the United States is also deteriorating, against a background of international tensions. Moscow has thus left a lunar project with NASA, to try to develop another one with China.
]]>Russian President Vladimir Putin, photographed shirtless during a horseback ride or a fishing trip, has been elected the sexiest man in the country following a survey conducted among 2,000 Russian men and women.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, photographed shirtless during a horseback ride or a fishing trip, has been elected the sexiest man in the country following a survey conducted among 2,000 Russian men and women.
The 68-year-old is the only man to reach double digits in the poll conducted by job board SuperJob. When asked who is the most attractive man in the country, 18 percent of men and 17 percent of women voted for Putin.
But that number is down one percent in each group from the previous year.
Russians still consider Vladimir Putin the most attractive of the country's famous men, says the site. In this field, neither actors, athletes nor other politicians can compete with him today.
Putin has been photographed shirtless - sometimes fishing, holding an amusement or riding a horse - while on vacation in the past. He insisted in 2018 that he was not embarrassed by topless photos and said he saw no need to hide behind the bushes while on vacation.
The photos were widely seen as an attempt to cultivate the powerful image of a man of action. And it seems to have worked, if the latest poll is any indication.
The leader maintained a comfortable lead over his closest competitors, actors Dmitry Nagiyev, Danila Kozlovsky and Konstantin Khabensky, with only 2-3% of respondents finding them most attractive.
The survey was conducted by interviewing 1,000 men and 1,000 women in over 300 cities in Russia between March 22 and 31.
The results were released just days after lawmakers passed a law allowing Putin to remain in power as president until 2036. Spread over a week because of the coronavirus pandemic, the vote, the outcome of which was not in doubt, officially concluded with a yes vote of 77.92% and a turnout of 65%, according to official figures .
]]>Russia regretted on Monday the refusal, according to it, of the United States to organize a public dialogue between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, at the initiative of the Russian president, after their verbal exchange of arms last week.
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Russia regretted on Monday the refusal, according to it, of the United States to organize a public dialogue between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, at the initiative of the Russian president, after their verbal exchange of arms last week.
This is another wasted opportunity to break the deadlock in Russian-American relations that exists because of Washington's fault, said the Russian Foreign Ministry in a terse statement. Vladimir Putin had proposed to his American counterpart a public dialogue by video conference to discuss their multiple differences. According to Russian diplomacy, the American side did not support the proposal of Mr. Putin who wanted to discuss bilateral problems that have accumulated and the theme of strategic stability. He had launched this idea on Thursday evening after an astonishing exchange by interposed media, the Russian president having answered by it is the one who says it who is to Mr. Biden, who described him as killer.
Mr. Putin had proposed that the video conference take place on Friday or Monday, explaining that he was unavailable during the weekend because of a stay in the taiga. In reaction to Mr. Biden's remarks, Moscow has also, exceptionally, recalled its ambassador to Washington Anatoli Antonov for consultations. The Kremlin also denounced Monday the multiplication of sanctions against Russia, Washington having adopted new ones last week. The determination to sanction our adversaries, especially the United States, continues to grow, noted the spokesman for the Russian presidency Dmitry Peskov, at a press conference. The U.S. president displays since his arrival at the White House in January a great firmness towards the Kremlin, as opposed to the benevolence often reproached to his predecessor Donald Trump even in his Republican camp. But the gun battle between Mr. Biden and Mr. Putin precipitates the U.S.-Russian relationship in a new spiral of tensions, while the two powers also said they wanted to cooperate on issues of common interest. The Russian-American relations and more generally Russian-Western relations have been poisonous for years: annexation of Crimea, war in Ukraine, conflict in Syria or poisoning and imprisonment of the Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny.
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Russian opponent Alexei Navalny accused President Vadimir Putin of being "behind" his poisoning, in his first published interview since he left the German hospital where he was treated.
I claim that Putin is behind this act, I see no other explanation, he told German weekly Der Spiegel, which published excerpts of the interview on its website Thursday morning.
"My duty now is to remain as I am, someone who is not afraid. And I'm not afraid! “, Also says the main opponent of the Kremlin.
According to the German weekly, he also confirms in the interview, the entirety of which is to be broadcast later today, his intention to return to Russia once cured.
A tireless anti-corruption activist and fierce critic of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, 44, fell seriously ill on August 20 on a plane in Siberia while campaigning for an election.
Three European laboratories have concluded that it was poisoned with a Novichok-type nerve agent, designed for military use in Soviet times, and Western capitals have therefore called on Russia to explain and investigate. Moscow rejects all accusations.
Alexeï Navalny was released from the Berlin Charité Hospital a week ago, where he was treated for a month. He is now continuing his convalescence in Germany which, according to his spokesperson, will take "a lot of time ».
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in intensive care after apparently being poisoned, his spokesman said on Twitter Thursday.
Alexei Navalny was on a flight from Siberia to Moscow when the plane had to make an emergency landing due to the sudden deterioration of his health, according to his spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh. "Alexei has been poisoned, intoxicated," and "is now in intensive care," she tweeted.
We believe Alexei was poisoned with something mixed with his tea. He didn’t drink anything else this morning, ”she said. “Doctors said the poison was absorbed quickly through the hot drink
Tass State News Agency confirmed that Alexei Navalny was admitted to the intensive care unit of the toxicology department in the emergency department of Omsk hospital in Siberia.
The main opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the 44-year-old lawyer, whose anti-corruption posts are widely shared on social media, has suffered physical attacks in the past. In particular, he was sprayed in the eyes with a disinfectant when leaving his office in 2017.
Mr. Navalny, his supporters and their families are regularly the subject of arrests, searches and police pressure throughout Russia.
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Russia has developed the "first" vaccine against the coronavirus, the Russian president said on Tuesday during a video conference with members of the government broadcast on television, assuring that it gave "lasting immunity ».
This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus was recorded, "said Vladimir Putin, adding:" I know that it is quite effective, that it gives lasting immunity « .
His daughter would have tested him
The president even claimed that one of his daughters had been inoculated with the vaccine. "She participated in the experiment," he said, claiming that she had had a bit of a temperature, "and that's it."
This vaccine will be put into circulation on January 1, 2021, according to the National Medicines Register of the Ministry of Health, consulted by Russian news agencies.
Russia had ensured in recent weeks the upcoming production of thousands of doses of vaccines against the new coronavirus and "several million" from the beginning of next year.
The World Health Organization reacted by advocating for compliance with the protocols and regulations in force in the development of an anti-Covid-19 vaccine.
Russia has been working for months, like many other countries in the world, on several vaccine projects against Covid-19. The one developed by the Gamaleïa center is in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense.
Sputnik like the satellite
This vaccine against the coronavirus developed by Russia was called "Sputnik V" (V for vaccine, editor's note), in reference to the Soviet satellite, the first spacecraft to be put into orbit, said the president of the sovereign wealth fund, involved in its development.
"More than a billion doses" have been pre-ordered by 20 foreign countries, Kirill Dmitriev said, adding that phase 3 of the trials began on Wednesday. The sovereign wealth fund said the start of industrial production was scheduled for September.
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The Russian authorities have installed a disinfection airlock which sprinkles products on visitors authorized to access President Vladimir Putin in his residence, so as not to risk contamination with the new coronavirus.
Vladimir Putin has worked since the start of the pandemic mainly in his residence in Novo-Ogariovo, near Moscow.
To protect the president from contamination, visitors must pass through a device that sprays disinfectant on all sides, according to a video published Tuesday evening on Twitter by journalists from the public agency Ria Novosti covering the Russian presidency. .
According to the authorities of the Penza region, where the device was manufactured, this airlock "ensures the security of the Head of State and all those who visit him ».
The manufacturer of the machine specializes in automated cleaning devices for industries. The device installed in Mr. Poutine's residence is also capable of measuring the temperature of visitors and is equipped with facial recognition technology, according to the manufacturer.
According to the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin is regularly tested as are those who are in contact with him. Visitors must be screened before meeting it.
Despite the measures, many senior Russian officials have been infected with the coronavirus such as the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustin, several ministers and deputies.
In March, Vladimir Putin shook hands and was in close contact, without a mask, with the chief medical officer of one of the main hospitals treating coronavirus patients. The doctor, Denis Protsenko, had announced shortly after being reached by the disease.
Russia has more than 553,000 cases of coronavirus and 7,478 dead, according to official figures on Wednesday.
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How can you abandon your children to party? A Russian couple had no regrets about leaving their 16-week-old twins alone… to party for four long days. Today, Margarita and Alexey, 23 and 35 years old respectively, are charged with murder. One of their two infants and indeed starved to death.
The two children were found by their grandmother, reports The Mirror, when their mother explained to her friends that they were in hospital because of the coronavirus. "In four days, they did not feed the children or organize alternative care for them. They subjected them to hunger, did not ensure hygiene, leaving the babies in a socially dangerous state, "said a source close to the investigation.
Unfortunately, one of the small victims did not survive. The other is currently fighting for a living. The couple face up to 20 years in prison.
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