Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable

When Russian prison authorities announced the death of Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s most potent political opponent, the Russian president appeared to be overflowing with cheer. Addressing a group of workers and students at a machinery plant in the Russian industrial city of Chelyabinsk on Friday, a smiling Putin, unsurprisingly, made no mention of Navalny’s death … Read more

Humiliation for Putin’s ‘Unstoppable’ Superweapons Blasted Out of Sky by U.S. Protection System

Photograph Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Every day Beast/Getty/Reuters Russian officers should be reeling in utter disbelief after six of their most subtle missiles had been blasted out of the sky in an unimaginable evening of drama over Kyiv. When Ukraine’s Protection Specific outlet reported that only one Kh-47 “Dagger” missile had been shot down … Read more