“Figures vary, but at a conservative estimate, since the start of Russia's 'special military operation' [in Ukraine] at least 1,500 people are now in prison having spoken out against current state policy. That's three times more than during the savage days of the KGB in the USSR.

“Most opinion leaders have been declared 'foreign agents', 'extremists' or 'terrorists'. Several hundred

“the woman was acting on orders from Ukraine's intelligence services

“An explosion killed a Russian service member in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Thursday

“she shared photographs showing damage from air strikes in Iran with CNN and appeared in an interview about her reporting in March 2026

“Putin issued a decree and the newspaper's printing presses were nationalised. Its registration was revoked.

“All those political experts who say 'Putin thinks this' or 'Putin is scared of that'…they're all charlatans. It's in the same league with astrology. Nobody knows what's going on in Vladimir Putin's head. And I don't know. I see things only as a journalist. I study big data. And since the beginning of the year the need to use nuclear weapons has been mentioned more than 500 times. When wackos say this, I pay no attention. But I've heard it discussed on state TV. And at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, a state-run event, one of the speakers talked up the use of nuclear weapons as something favourable, something good.

“condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing executions of protesters and use of the death penalty