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OnlyFans in talks to sell 60% stake valuing firm at $3.5 billion
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/02/2026
» LONDON — British platform OnlyFans, known best for its adult content, is in talks to sell a 60% stake to an investment firm in a deal that would value the company at about US$3.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Freed Belarus opposition figure urges Trump to help release all prisoners
AFP, Published on 22/06/2025
» VILNIUS - Belarus opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was released following an appeal from the White House, said Sunday that US President Donald Trump could secure the freedom of all Belarusian political prisoners.
Moscow plans to use seized US-owned company to feed Russian army
Reuters, Published on 17/04/2025
» LONDON — Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to supply food to the Russian army, a document seen by Reuters showed, potentially threatening Moscow's warming relations with the United States.
Navalny supporters risk reprisals with memorial events a year after death
AFP, Published on 16/02/2025
» MOSCOW - A year after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died behind bars, his supporters held memorial events on Sunday, with hundreds risking reprisals by visiting his grave in Moscow.
Long lines of Russian voters signal discontent with Putin’s rule
Anatoly Kurmanaev and Nanna Heitmann of The New York Times, Published on 18/03/2024
» BERLIN/MOSCOW - The long lines of voters that formed outside polling stations in major Russian cities during the presidential election on Sunday were portrayed by opposition figures as a symbolic protest against a rubber-stamp process certain to keep Vladimir Putin in power.
Subdued defiance as Navalny laid to rest
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2024
» MOSCOW - Standing under grey skies holding red and white bouquets, Russians queued patiently along pavements leading towards opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s funeral on Friday, two weeks after his death in a Siberian penal colony.
Top Putin critic Navalny dies in prison at 47
Reuters, Published on 16/02/2024
» Alexei Navalny, the most formidable opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term, the Russian prison service said.
Allies of Russian opposition leader Navalny say whereabouts unknown
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» MOSCOW - Allies of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that they had been unable to locate him for six days, and that he had likely been transferred to another facility.
For 60 years, a hotline aims to keep cool between US and Moscow
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Sixty years ago, a crisis hotline for the first time sent a message between the world's superpowers.
Russia won't trade land for peace
Oped, Jan Lipavský, Published on 23/08/2023
» Fifty-five years ago, half a million Soviet soldiers began to occupy Czechoslovakia. Over 6,000 tanks rolled over the Prague Spring dream held by a large portion of our citizens.