In Russia, pacifist candidate Ekaterina Duntsova was excluded from the 2024 presidential election.
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Image: “Putin could launch an attack on a European country next year”
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Stoltenberg: “The plan is to continue to help Ukraine”
“The plan is to continue to help Ukraine because the only way to end the war is to convince President Putin that he cannot win on the ground. And the only way to convince him is to ensure that Ukraine has ammunition, weapons and whatever he needs.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined this in an interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN. “The Front lines have not changed significantly, but the Ukrainians were able to inflict heavy losses on the Russian forces and control the ports on the Black Sea,” Stoltenberg emphasized.
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Russia: Anti-Putin pacifist Ekaterina Duntsova excluded from elections
Russia's Central Election Commission has refused To Ekaterina Duntsova, who publicly opposes the war in Ukraine, as a candidate for Russian president. This was announced by the commission itself, which met today, as Novaya Gazeta reports.
Authorities have found “errors” in the documents Duntsova submitted to gain access to the election date, in which current Russian leader Vladimir Putin will also run for a fifth (reduced) term. Duntsova, 40, is a former journalist with experience on the city council. On November 16, he announced his intention to run as an independent; He justified his decision by saying that “the country has been moving in the wrong direction over the last ten years: the path was not one of development, but one of self-destruction.” She immediately spoke in favor of a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, for democratic reforms in the country and for the release of political prisoners. Immediately after announcing her candidacy, Duntsova was summoned to the prosecutor's office and VTB Bank blocked transfers in her name.
Moscow has barred opposition figures from elections and political life for years, a crackdown that accelerated after the Kremlin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine in 2022.
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Image: “Putin could launch an attack on a European country next year”
According to Germany's Bild, Russian President Vladimir Putin could launch an attack on a European country in the winter of next year. According to the scenario attributed to intelligence sources from the Old Continent, the tsar could consider the “window” represented by the US presidential transition between November next year and January 2025