Russia has been accused of a “disgusting and pathetic” attempt to smear two of the US’s most successful sportswomen.
The Russian embassy in South Africa posted a picture of the figure skater Kamila Valieva on their social media account, a day after she was banned for four years for taking banned drugs, above pictures of the US gymnast Simone Biles and the tennis star Serena Williams.
“Do not confuse,” read the post. “Russian athletes, doping. US athletes, cereals.”
In London, protesters from an anti-Brexit group painted the street outside the Russian Embassy blue and yellow – the colors of the Ukrainian flag. 🇺🇦
Four people have been arrested after protesters painted the road outside the Russian Embassy in London in the colours of the Ukrainian flag.
Led by Donkeys covered the street in Kensington Palace Gardens in yellow and blue paint ahead of the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
The group said it wanted to remind Russia's president of Ukraine's "right to self-determination".
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Explaining the protest in a tweet, the group said: "Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Putin's imperialist invasion of Ukraine, an independent state and a people with every right to self-determination.
"The existence of a massive Ukrainian flag outside his embassy in London will serve to remind him of that."
Friday is the first anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion.
Got blue and yellow? 💙💛 Let people know you oppose fascist Tucker Carlson and MTG favorite Vladimir Putin.
As concern increased about the Cold War and damage from radioactive poisoning released by atom bombs, mothers pushing prams led a peace demonstration of 400 marchers to the Russian embassy in 1961.
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The best views of Cetinje are from Eagle Rock, which felt harder to climb that it…
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Attempts by the American press to present Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter arrested for espionage in Russia, as an innocent victim are blatant manipulations, says the Russian Embassy in Washington.
“We draw your attention to another fit of hysteria in the local media about the allegedly unlawful detention of Wall Street Journal correspondent Gershkovich after the Moscow City…