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‘I hate them’: Dmitry Medvedev’s journey from liberal to anti-western hawk
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Joe Biden is a “strange grandfather with dementia”. The EU leadership are “lunatics”. Russia will ensure that Ukraine “disappears from the map” in the near future. Welcome to another week as seen through the eyes of D...
Nobel peace prize auctioned by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov fetches record $103.5m
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The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees has sold for $103.5m (£84.5m), shattering the record for a Nobel. Previously, the most ever p...
Dmitry Bivol humbles Canelo Álvarez in shocker to retain light heavyweight title
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Dmitry Bivol shocked Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, his devastated army of fans, all of Mexico and boxing itself when he retained his WBA light heavyweight title with a consummate victory on points in Las Vegas on Saturday ni...
Ordinary Russians did not want this war, but Putin is trying to make us all complicit
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Why did the Kremlin tell us to call this war a special operation? Because no one in Russia wanted war. Everyone was afraid of war. War is real people leaving their homes and returning in zinc coffins. It’s smoking rui...
Now we know: Russia’s horrific past could become our future under Putin
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My generation didn’t experience the mass repressions and purges; didn’t experience the show trials in which the wrathful public demanded the executions of traitors to the Motherland; didn’t live in an atmosphere of un...
Dmitry Muratov: the Nobel winner shining light on Russia journalist murders
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When Dmitry Muratov saw a Norwegian number flash up on his phone, he assumed it was a nuisance call. Finding out he was joint laureate of this year’s Nobel peace prize was a complete shock. “I am laughing. I didn’t ex...