(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was “doing everything right” in its nearly eight-month invasion of Ukraine despite a string of embarrassing defeats against Kyiv’s forces, who will receive $725 million in new U.S. military assistance.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday denied reports that up to 700,000 Russians have fled the country to avoid President Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization for the war in Ukraine. Peskov admitted there have been some hasty defections, but insisted the number was much lower.
Tens of thousands of Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s military conscription to fuel the Ukraine invasion have flooded neighboring central Asian countries in the past week, leaving governments such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia with few resources to process the sudden and growing migrant wave.
Pope Francis praised Ukraine’s vigorous self-defense Thursday, insisting that it is morally just and patriotic.
Protesters who say they have lost loved ones to China’s genocide of Turkic people in occupied East Turkistan told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Wednesday that the government of Kazakhstan threatened and, in some cases, arrested them in anticipation of Xi Jinping’s visit to the country this week.
Pope Francis ended his three-day visit to Kazakhstan Thursday by appealing for expanded leadership roles for women in society.
Pope Francis called attention to the war in Ukraine during his visit to Kazakhstan Wednesday, urging that nations never become inured to war.
Pope Francis praised “authentic religiosity” Wednesday, insisting that on the contrary “fundamentalism defiles and corrupts every creed.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday – his first travel abroad since his nation caused the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – for a short tour to increase the nation’s economic reliance on China and promote “security and defense cooperation.”
Pope Francis began his trip to Kazakhstan Tuesday touting the virtues of democracy, calling it “the most suitable form for power to be translated into service.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will meet with his Russian ally Vladimir Putin during a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that begins on Wednesday. The trip will mark Xi’s first journey beyond China’s borders since the beginning of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Pope Francis has sent his representative Cardinal Konrad Krajewski to Ukraine for the fourth time, to let the Ukrainian people know they are not alone.
Pope Francis met Friday morning with the number two man of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow, the Vatican has reported.
Pope Francis will travel to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan this coming September to attend a conference of religious leaders, the Vatican announced Tuesday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday argued that political stability in neighboring Kazakhstan is a vital Chinese national security interest.
The United Nations on Monday objected to Kazakhstan’s use of blue U.N. peacekeeper helmets on some of the troops it deployed to suppress protests over the weekend.
China offered increased “law enforcement and security” support for Kazakhstan on Sunday, to help it suppress the remainder of the protest movement that broke out on January 1 and was brutally crushed with Russian military assistance over the weekend.
The Taliban terrorist organization issued a statement on Thursday expressing “concern” over clashes between the government and protesters in Kazakhstan this week that have escalated into a Russian military invasion and officers opening fire on civilians.
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whose country sits on the United Nations Human Rights Council, on Friday ordered his security forces – reinforced over the past few days with Russian paratroopers – to shoot demonstrators in cold blood, without warning.
Kazakhstan’s fuel riots escalated dramatically on Wednesday, as dozens of police and protesters were killed in street battles across western Kazakhstan and Almaty, the nation’s largest city. Russian state media claimed one of the 12 law enforcement officers killed was beheaded. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent paratroopers into Kazakhstan on Thursday to restore order.
Kazakhstan’s government has blamed the country’s booming crypto mining industry on nationwide energy shortages and recently threatened to crack down on the practice with new regulations and higher taxes.
President Joe Biden said Afghans who aided America and their families may relocate to American facilities outside the continental U.S.
President Biden is racing to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting U.S. visas for aiding the American war effort.
Then-VP Biden reportedly had dinner with his son’s business partners from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan in the U.S. capital in 2015.
Women of the oppressed Uyghur minority demonstrated at the Chinese consulates in Kazakhstan and Turkey on Monday, International Women’s Day, to call attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal campaigns of “re-education” and ethnic cleansing against their families.
Peter Schweizer explained how Joe Biden’s family members monetized political influence in a video interview with Breitbart News.
Recently-discovered emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop have revived concerns about how his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, may have abused his office to enrich members of his family. Some also suspect the money found its way back to Biden.
A photograph has emerged showing former Vice President Joe Biden meeting with Kenes Rakishev, who once reportedly explored business with Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
An “unknown pneumonia” with a “much higher” fatality rate than the Chinese coronavirus is sweeping through Kazakhstan, the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan warned its citizens on Thursday, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece Global Times reported on Friday.
Greek police arrested a 36-year-old migrant man from Kazakhstan on suspicion of stealing €50,000 (£46,000/$56,000) worth of goods from churches.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the Communist regime in China is the “central threat of our times.”
People from Kazakhstan whose relatives have disappeared into Chinese concentration camps object to their government’s friendliness with Beijing, Radio Free Europe reported on Tuesday.
The book reveals how Hunter Biden forged business deals with individuals and entities tied with Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.
A plane carrying 98 people from Kazakhstan crashed into a building shortly after its takeoff on Friday morning, killing at least a dozen people and injuring over 50 more.
A Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 12 people.
The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times published an interview with a communist official in Xinjiang, home to most of the nation’s ethnic Uyghur Muslims, on Wednesday asserting that the concentration camps there are “schools” and all escaped prisoners are lying.
Swedish police have arrested an Uzbek migrant this week on suspicion of terrorism who had previously been deported from the country and held as an example of successful integration.
A local news bureau reported “shock” in the German city of Stuttgart after a 36-year-old man was hacked to death with what appeared to be a katana-type sword in the middle of the street on Wednesday afternoon.
A man charged with joining the Islamic State (ISIS) as a sniper and firearms instructor originally came to the United States through the “Diversity Visa Lottery,” a program responsible for bringing more than half a million randomly chosen foreign nationals to the country in a single decade.
China reluctantly began allowing select foreign journalists to visit the massive re-education camps of Xinjiang province last month, staging performances to reinforce the Communist Party line that the hundreds of thousands of Muslims consigned to the camps for reprogramming are actually the happy voluntary residents of “vocational schools.”
