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Many Russian arrests for treason
Japan gets asteroid samples
Queen Elizabeth/Obama/Bush/Clinton
Kids taken at border
Police dogs confront #Belarus protesters
VW predicts autonomous cars soon
Willy Brandt at Warsaw Ghetto https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
1. Russian voters approved constitutional amendments on July1, 2020 that will enable Putin to stay in power until 2036, when he will be 84 years old.
Since then, there has been a rash of political arrests.
We document them this morning, in our report-> https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
Since then, there has been a rash of political arrests.
We document them this morning, in our report-> https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
2. A physicist involved in the development of Russia’s hypersonic missiles has been arrested on charges of treason by the FSB. The physicist, Anatoly Gubanov, is alleged to have passed highly classified aviation data to unnamed Western countries.
More-> https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
More-> https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
3. Last month a senior manager of Aeroflot, Russia’s state airline, was also arrested on charges of treason. The official, Dmitry Fedotkin, is alleged to have passed secrets about Russia’s social and political circumstances to MI6, the foreign intelligence service of the UK.
4. In July, the FSB arrested a respected former reporter, Ivan I. Safronov, who had recently become an aide to the director general of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency. He was charged with passing military secrets to the Czech Republic, which then forwarded them on to the US.
5. Safronov is known for his reporting on sensitive military arms transactions for privately owned business newspapers not affiliated with the RU govt. Dozens of Russian journalists, including some employed by RT, have publicly protested Safronov’s arrest.
6. Safronov’s father, also named Ivan Safronov, was a respected journalist who covered military affairs. The senior Safronov fell to his death from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building in 2007 after publishing a series of articles on the Russian military.
7. The father's death, officially ruled a suicide, is widely believed to have been a murder. His apartment was on the third floor of the building.
More in our report-> https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
More in our report-> https://look.substack.com/p/eight-things-to-know-91c
8. The popular governor of the eastern Russian district of Khabarovsk Krai, Sergei Furgal, was arrested on July 9 -- five weeks after the constitutional referendum -- and flown 5,000 miles west to Moscow where he awaits trial on murder charges related to events in 2004 and 2006.
9.Furgal, who claims the murder charges are bogus and politically motivated, defeated Putin’s United Russia party candidate for governor in 2018. Furgal’s arrest has prompted daily demonstrations of anti-Putin opposition in Khabarovsk since then.
10. The Khabarovsk protests have been supported by Alexey Navalny’s political organization. #Navalny, who has been arrested many times and barred from running for office, was poisoned in Siberia six weeks after Furgal’s arrest.
