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The Paramount+ original documentary Superpower, the once launched last year on Paramount + by co-directors Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman, today begins airing on YouTube. All you’ve got to pay is attention. The deal allows audiences across YouTube's massive footprint to watch the moving story centered on…

It was one year ago on Friday that The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia on espionage charges that the U.S. government has called “fiction.” On Thursday, Gershkovich’s detention was extended by another three months, according to the Journal, as he awaits trial. The…

UPDATE, SATURDAY AM: Authorities now say 133 people are dead in the concert hall attack. Russia's top state investigative agency said Saturday they have arrested 11 suspects, four directly involved in the onslaught. “All four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed…

Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff of late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, was attacked on Tuesday outside his house in Vilnius, Lithuania. Navalny's former press person and assistant Kira Yarmysh reported the attack on social media. "Leonid Volkov has just been attacked near…

With the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, Fox News’ Bret Baier sat down with Volodymyr Zelensky for an interview on the front lines. The fate of a U.S. aid package, now all but stalled in the House, was a centerpiece of the interview, but Baier also brought up former…

X/Twitter temporarily suspended the account of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, in what the platform said was a mistake. “Our platform’s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules. We unsuspended…

Jaka Bizilj, the founder of the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation which organized the airlift from Russia of opposition activist Alexei Navalny after his poisoning in 2020, has responded to his sudden death in an Arctic Circle jail on Friday. "Seeing the kind of treatment that they were giving…

Joe Biden said that he was “both not surprised and outraged” by the reported death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in prison, blaming it on Vladimir Putin. The news networks broke away from coverage of the Fani Willis hearing in Georgia — which featured her father on the witness stand…

Alexei Navalny, who has led the main opposition to Vladimir Putin for years and was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, has died, according to state reports citing the Russian prison service. He was 47. The BBC quoted the Russian prison service as saying Navalny “felt unwell” after a walk on…

Russia was the top market in terms of admissions for French cinema last year, cinema export agency Unifrance's annual international box office report for 2023 revealed on Tuesday. Given that Russia's relations with Europe are at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War in 1991 as its ongoing…

The Ukrainian winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest has been placed on Russia’s wanted list, according to local reports. Independent Russian news website Mediazona, which has frequently reported news of the list, said yesterday that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has banned Jamala, whose real…

Joe Biden called for a massive new aid package for Israel and Ukraine, linking the wars in both countries to American security, while denouncing a rise in anti-semitism and Islamophobia in the U.S. “American leadership is what holds the world together,” Biden said. “American alliances are what keep…