Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised the “top-level” maneuvers of the Russian fleet in the Pacificin full rapprochement with China and in the midst of tensions with the West.
“The first phase of the surprise exercises was of a very high standard,” Putin said in a meeting with his defense minister Sergei Shoigu.
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Putin praises the “high-level” maneuvers of the Russian fleet in the Pacific
Russian President Vladimir Putin observes activity at the ‘Tsugol’ training ground. AP photo.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised the “high-level” maneuvers of the Russian fleet in the Pacific, in full rapprochement with China and amid tensions with the West.
“The first phase of the surprise exercises was of a very high standard,” Putin said in a meeting with his defense minister Sergei Shoigu.
More than 25,000 soldiers, 167 ships and 89 planes and helicopters are participating in the maneuvers, Shoigu explained.
The minister said that the Russian forces participating in these maneuvers were trained, in a first phase, to detect enemy submarines near the Peter the Great Gulf (in the Sea of Japan) and the Avachinsky Gulf, southeast of the Kamchatka peninsula. the Russian Far East.
The EU condemns the “harsh” sentence against the Russian opponent Kara-Murza
The European Union (EU) on Monday condemned Russia’s “outrageously harsh” sentence against opposition and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison and called for his “immediate” release and that of the rest of the prisoners for political reasons.
“The court’s outrageously harsh decision once again clearly demonstrates the political abuse of the judiciary to pressure activists, human rights defenders and any voice opposing Russia’s illegitimate war against Ukraine,” the senior said. EU Foreign Affairs Representative, Josep Borrell, in a statement.
Death, prison or exile: the three goals of Putin’s opponents
Following opposition member Vladimir Kara-Murza’s 25-year prison sentence on Monday, this is a summary of the fate suffered by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s great detractors since he came to power in 2000.
A former deputy prime minister and seen at the time as President Boris Yeltsin’s possible successor against Putin, Boris Nemtsov became the main critic of the man who finally became president in the 2000s.
The politician opposed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea peninsula and the Kremlin’s military support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Russian opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in prison
Vladimir Kara-Murza is seen on a television screen while in a glass cage listening to the verdict in a Moscow City Courtroom in Moscow. AP photo.
A Moscow court on Monday sentenced the opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison on various charges, including “high treason”, amid the crackdown in Russia against dissident voices amid the conflict in Ukraine.
Kara-Murza, close to well-known opponent Boris Nemtsov who was assassinated in 2015, was one of the last critical voices against the Kremlin which was not in prison or exiled abroad.
After a closed trial, the court announced it had found Kara-Murza guilty of “high treason”, spreading “false information” about the Russian military and illegally working for an “undesirable” organisation, AFP reported.
The 41-year-old leader, who holds Russian and British passports, was sentenced to a cumulative sentence of 25 years in prison in a penal colony under a strict regime, involving harsher prison conditions, according to a request filed by the prosecution. To know more.
Source: Clarin
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