Kremlin News Today

Designed to confirm Vladimir Putin in the presidency. Allies of the late opposition leader, alexei navalny, had called on people to turn out at midday, in moscow and other cities to spoil their ballots or vote for any other candidate. His widow, yulia navalnaya, voted at the Russian Embassy in berlin, having queued there for several hours. As she left, she told reporters she had written � navalny� on her ballot. Her husband died in an Arctic Penal Colony last month and was barred from standi...

leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov—on—don — along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov—on—don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal...

welcome to the daily global. now to the war in ukraine, and a warning from russia that it will respond "extremely harshly" to any future incursions. it came as russian officials said the belgorod region had once again come under attack. take a look at this map. it shows belgorod on the russian side of the border with ukraine. officials say drones and shellfire struck villages there overnight, but no casualties have been reported. on tuesday, russia claimed to have defeated armed insurg...

we begin in india, where the search for survivors gone on through the night in the southern state of kerala after a tourist boat capsized. at least 21 people died when the double—decker boat turned on its side on a river. some of those rescued are said to be in a critical condition. rescuers from indias national disaster response force are at the site. with more on this, our correspondent simonjones is in the newsroom. simon, what more can you tell us? , simon, what more can you tell...

more pressure on rishi sunak, over nadim zahawis tax affairs. labour goes on the attack. does the prime minister agree that any politician who seeks to avoid the taxes they owe in this country is not fit to be in charge of taxpayer money? since i commented on this matter last week, more information has come forward and that is why i have asked the independent adviser to look into the matter. staff at the online retailer amazon go on strike for the first time in the uk, in their dispute...

passes a tough new law. i have just bought this book, recently published, it is a gay love story but if you look inside, you can see parts of it have actually been re— deducted. we speak to the actor brendan fraser, whos being widely tipped for an oscar nomination for his role in the whale, which critics are calling one of the most powerful performances of the year. iam going i am going to need to be the voice for those who live the way he does, to depict him with respect. and surfin...

details are still coming in. translation: we can confirm there has been a shooting _ translation: we can confirm there has been a shooting with _ translation: we can confirm there has been a shooting with many - has been a shooting with many casualties. we now know there are also several killed. when we arrived there we apprehended the suspect in there we apprehended the suspect in the immediate vicinity. the incident happened earlier this evening — well have the latest. also tonight...

proportionality and precaution. although the us vetoed the vote... the us secretary of state antony blinken says there is a gap between israels promise to protect civilians and its actions on the ground. more than 17,000 palestinians have now been killed according to the hamas—run health ministry. and while israel claims that some 5,000 of that number are hamas fighters, there are huge numbers of women and children among the dead. frank lowenstein, who was formerly president obamas s...