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Foreign affairs

Russia bans entry to Lithuanian PACE rapporteur for Nemtsov murder case

Emanuelis Zingeris, a Lithuanian lawmaker appointed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as a special rapporteur for the Boris Nemtsov murder case, has been banned from entering Russia. […]

Vladimir Putin
Opinion

Upcoming presidential election in Russia and Putin 4.0 System

The Russian presidential election will take place in a month, but the winner is already clear. The only candidate capable of receiving wider support from voters, Alexey Navalny, has been banned from registering as a candidate due to his criminal record, stemming from a fraud conviction he views as illegitimate. Accordingly, the question now is not about what kind of elections these will be, but what they will mean for Vladimir Putin’s fourth term. In other words, what will the Putin 4.0 system look like? What challenges will it face? […]

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza
European Union

Foreign Minister holding breakfast of EU colleagues with Kremlin’s critic

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius holding a breakfast for European Union’s (EU) foreign minister with Russian opposition figure and prominent critic of the Kremlin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, in Luxembourg on Monday. […]