Vladimir Putin’s Russia is now becoming a hotbed of mystery stories. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the world’s attention has been on Russia. In the last few days, the number of super rich people who are killed under mysterious circumstances is also increasing. Ravil Maganov is the eighth person linked to oil companies to be killed (suicide in Russian) since the start of the Ukraine invasion. He was the chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second largest oil company. Death fell from the window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. The Russian authorities revealed that Ravil, who was undergoing treatment, committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor window of the hospital. Luco company officials have issued a press release saying that Ravil finally succumbed to illness. All of the super-rich people killed since last February are oligarchs who had a huge influence on Russia’s economy. All of them are committing ‘suicide’ due to various reasons, family, business and health. The stories coming from Putin’s Russia are hard to believe, but they are hard to believe. But when we know some things that connect them all, it is natural to have doubts. First, all those who died under mysterious circumstances were related to major oil companies in Russia. Second, they were opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The situation where the European powers blocked the import of oil from Russia should also be read here. Did all these rich people commit suicide as the Russian authorities claim? Should the world believe that the Russian president had no role in the death of these oligarchs who opposed Putin? Or did someone kill these oligarchs without leaving a single piece of evidence? Does the Wagner group, secretly known as ‘Putin’s assassins’ and ‘Putin’s private army’, have anything to do with this?
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Xi Jinping out of China after two years; Meeting with Vladimir Putin
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
‘Xi Chingping out of China following two years’; Meeting with Vladimir Putin
Beijing: President Xi Jinping is planning to travel outside China for the first time following a gap of more than two years.
Xi will break a two-year hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic with a Central Asian trip to be held this week.
It is reported that Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of his visit to Central Asia this week.
This will be the Chinese president’s first overseas trip following the Covid pandemic.
Xi Jinping’s visit is politically significant as Russia’s confrontation with the West over Ukraine, other crises, and the Taiwan issue are all being discussed.
Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Kazakh and Russian spokesmen said they would then meet with Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan’s ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand.
Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities have not yet released the details of the President’s Central Asian trip.
But Putin’s foreign policy spokesman, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters that Putin hopes to meet with Xi at the Shanghai Cooperation Summit. A Russian spokesman declined to provide details regarding Xi’s meeting with Putin and the substance of the discussion.
At the same time, it is estimated that Putin will be able to demonstrate Russian inclination towards Asia through the Shanghai Cooperation Summit and mutual meetings, and Xi Jinping will be able to consolidate his influence.
The leaders of both Russia and China are expected to show their opposition to the United States and oppose the West’s attempt to blame Russia alone for the crisis in Ukraine.
It is also noteworthy that in the first seven months of 2022, trade between Russia and China increased by almost a third.
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Ukraine advance to recapture rail city | Russia | Ukraine | Ukraine crisis
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KIEV – Russian forces are abandoning their weapons and retreating following Ukrainian forces captured the city of Kupyansk in eastern Ukraine. The railway city of Kupyansk was the main center where all the supplies needed by the army were delivered by rail from Russia. The Russian flag was removed from the city and replaced by the Ukrainian flag.
Thousands of front-line Russian soldiers have been trapped following Ukraine took control of the railway line that used to deliver supplies to the Russian forces in northern Ukraine.
The situation is similar in the city of Isium. Russian soldiers are reportedly trying to escape, abandoning tanks and other weapons. Pictures emerged of burning Russian tanks and armored vehicles in several villages recaptured by Ukrainian forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry has admitted that Russia’s frontline forces suffered a setback in Harkiv. He said that more forces have been sent there and things will be brought under control soon.
In the cities of Kupyansk and Izium, Russian-appointed officials ordered people to evacuate before withdrawing.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukraine has made major advances in Harkiv and Kherson. He congratulated the soldiers. At the same time, the Russian news agency Tass reported that its air force destroyed 6 arsenals of Ukraine in Mykhailo region.
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Russian officials call on parliament to “impose” Putin, and the police summon them
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(CNN) — Elected municipal officials in Russia’s Saint Petersburg region have called on the State Duma (parliament) to impeach Russian President Vladimir Putin for “high treason”, in a rare opposition move in Russia.
The officials published, via Twitter, the details of their request to Parliament, saying that “Putin is responsible for the death of healthy young Russians who can join the labor market better than joining the army, and causing Russia’s economic contraction and brain drain, and the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). to the east, including the accession of Finland and Sweden to the alliance, and the adverse repercussions of the special military operation it launched once morest Ukraine.”
The officials later said that St. Petersburg police had summoned them for “defaming the ruling establishment.” Police later released two of the four officials who had been summoned, all of whom are expected to face fines.
The Kremlin is trying hard to stifle any criticism of the invasion of Ukraine.
After launching a large-scale invasion in late February of Ukraine, the Russian government moved quickly to shut down the country’s remaining free press institutions and introduced a new law imposing severe criminal penalties for publishing “false” information.
According to the independent group OVD-Info, which tracks arrests in Russia, 16,437 people have been arrested or detained for their anti-war activism in Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.