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UN human rights experts are calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navlany. They say all clues indicate that Russia was responsible. Plus, former French President Sarkozy found guilty of corruption.
Teaser. UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard tells Brent Goff that on the basis of evidence there is no doubt that the State of Russia is responsible for the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny.
In the Kuznetsk Basin, a Siberian coal-mining area known as Russia's "black heart," breathing can sometimes be difficult due to pollution. Even Canada responded to the villagers' plea for help — but will Russia respond to the environmental crisis?
One year after the mass shooting in Hanau, relatives of the deceased are still waiting for a full explanation from the authorities. Families deal with both right-wing racism and grief. Also: Russia's mass vaccination campaign is in full swing. Free Covid-19 jabs are spreading hope across the country.
Russia is offering its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for free to citizens. In Moscow, where infection rates are high, widespread vaccination is seen as the way out of pandemic restrictions. Muscovites can even get the jab on a shopping trip.
In an exclusive interview with DW's Alexandra von Nahmen, Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said new EU human rights sanctions on Russia following repressive action against Alexei Navalny and his supporters send a "strong signal" to the Kremlin.
EU foreign ministers have agreed on sanctions against four senior Russian officials who they believe are responsible for the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the subsequent crackdown on his supporters.
EU foreign ministers are weighing sanctions against Russia over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a crackdown on protests. The EU's push to punish the Kremlin follows what some called a disastrous trip to Moscow by the bloc's foreign policy chief.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny will stay behind bars. A Moscow court upheld his prison sentence for violating his parole. Later, the 44-year-old was found guilty of supposedly defaming a Russian World War II veteran.
Once a center of the timber industry, Soyga is now mostly home to the elderly. For many of the village residents, train driver Petrovich with his ramshackle narrow-gauge railway is a link to the outside world, and a kind of guardian angel.
German CDU lawmaker Andreas Nick talks to DW's Brent Goff on "The Day" about the controversial Baltic Sea pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to Germany - a project opposed by several European countries and the United States. Nick explains why he and others are revisiting a 30 year-old book written by the new US Secretary of State.
In a DW interview, EU Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas defended the EU's COVID19 response, saying the European success story remains to be told.
The Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany is almost complete but has become politically explosive. Berlin stands behind the project, but Washington says the pipeline threatens European energy security. Is there an exit strategy for Germany? Brent Goff asked Kadri Liik, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Small gatherings rather than big demonstrations: With their latest show of support for Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, protesters in Russia have adopted a new tactic. In courtyards around the country, they lit torches and candles.
In Moscow, hundreds of women have formed a human chain to show solidarity for Alexei Navalny's wife, Yulia, and other women who have become victims of the country's recent political crackdown. Protesters said the chain signifies the triumph of love over fear.
Syria: Bitterly cold temperatures, heavy rains and floods in north-west province Idlib have worsened the plight of the refugees. Also: Since January 2021, women have been allowed to operate trains in the Moscow metro system.
Since January, women have been allowed to operate trains in the Moscow metro system — a job that used to be one of several hundred that were forbidden for women in Russia. But the Russian Ministry of Labor has now reduced that list to 100.
Marianna Muntianu has devised all kinds of ways to encourage people to plant trees. She oversees 6,000 volunteers doing just that with her Plant the Forest project. The UN has named her a Young Champion of the Earth.
Gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is at the center of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and Russia, with Germany sitting in the middle of the dispute. In Lubmin, people can't understand what the fuss is all about.
Protesters demanding the release of Alexei Navalny are being arrested en masse in Russia. Also: Uighurs in Turkey fear being deported to China.
In the race to decide who gets COVID vaccines, what is the right strategy? Our guests: Frank Ulrich Montgomery (World Medical Association), Alexandra von Nahmen (DW Brussels), Mekonnen Mesghena (Heinrich Böll Foundation)
Protesters demanding the release of Alexei Navalny are being arrested en masse in Russia. Uighurs in Turkey fear being deported to China.
The natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 that starts in Russia has become a source of international political conflict. It ends in the German coastal resort Lubmin, where the residents hope it will create jobs.
Myanmar, Russia, Argentina: Protest movements around the world employ symbols to get out their message. After all, a picture says a thousand words.
