In an interview with RFE/RL's Georgian Service, Gerard Biard, the editor in chief of the controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, talks about the difficulties in creating satire in times of war, especially in Russia's ravaged media landscape.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia was ready to facilitate Ukrainian grain shipments from ports along the Black Sea, but that he wants Western countries to lift their sanctions against Russian grain exports.
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Iran's supreme leader voiced strong backing for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's war in Ukraine, accusing Western countries of opposing an “independent and strong” Russia.
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As Vladimir Putin’s political star rose, journalist Anatoly Levin-Utkin was a key researcher behind one of the first Russian media reports digging into the former KGB officer's past. Then he was beaten to death.
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The man in bulky winter fatigues licked his pinky, dabbed it inside the hand-sized package his underlings had just opened, and brought it, covered in white powder, to his mouth.
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The United Kingdom said it had imposed sanctions on Friday against Russian President Lyudmila Ocheretnaya's ex-wife and other members of the Russian president's entourage.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi is ready to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but without his mediators and on the terms of dialogue, not ultimatums.
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Ukraine said its military made some progress gradually pushing Russian forces away from the city of Kharkiv as fighting in the east and south of the country continues and the United States warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a long war.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva, who was at the center of a doping scandal at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Russia cannot sign security guarantees for Ukraine without resolving the territorial issue of Crimea and Donbass.
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