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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Reiner has offered a satirical response to being banned from Russia by Vladimir Putin. The veteran filmmaker, who was a surprise inclusion on a list published by Russia over the weekend, quipped to us: "No comment. Except to say that I'm heartbroken and will have to live with the disappointment." ‘Spinal…

When Marina Ovsyannikova stormed the live broadcast of Russia's flagship news program on March 14 to protest Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, it was a valiant moment that quickly reverberated across the world. The journalist and editor spent six seconds holding a sign saying, "No war, they are lying to you," on…

As Russian president Vladimir Putin was preparing to address the nation Monday morning during the annual Victory Day parade commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, local television menus were reportedly hacked with program descriptions on smart TVs replaced by a message reading, “The blood of…

Russia has banned the UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a list of other senior ministers from entering the country over what it describes as the UK's "hostile" position regarding its war with Ukraine. Besides Johnson, the UK’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and ten other named ministers…

Documentaries don’t get much more timely than this. CNN Films has released the first trailer for Navalny, director Daniel Roher’s feature doc about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, and set an April 24 premiere date on CNN. The cable news outlet will air the feature with limited commercial interruption starting at 9…

In a repeat of 2017, France's 2022 presidential election is now down to the same two candidates: the incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far right leader Marine Le Pen. In first round voting which took place on Sunday, centrist Macron emerged with 27.6% of the votes while Le Pen managed 23.4%. This is a bigger showing for…

Boris Johnson has been pictured in a meeting with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky, after the UK's Prime Minister arrived in Kyiv for an unannounced visit.   The Embassy of Ukraine to the UK shared a picture of the two in conversation across a table in the country's capital city. The Embassy captioned the…

For the second time in roughly as many weeks, President Joe Biden called Russia’s Vladimir Putin “a war criminal” on Tuesday. Biden’s assertion came after the New York Times reported that at least 11 civilians — “some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head” — had been killed at the time when…

Joe Biden told reporters that he was expressing his “moral outrage” when he said that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” but it did not reflect a change in U.S. policy. Biden made the surprising remark at the end of his speech on Saturday in Poland, and reporters quickly seized on the comment as a new…

J.K. Rowling answered Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday for his linking her cancellation for anti-transgender comments with Russia’s sanctions. The Harry Potter series author used Twitter to tell Putin that his analysis wasn’t welcome. “Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those…

UPDATE, 07:45: JK Rowling responded to Vladimir Putin’s TV broadcast today in which the Russian president defended her as a victim of cancel culture and claimed the West was attempting to cancel his country. On Twitter, the Harry Potter author posted the below message in which she tried to distance herself from Putin…

Broadcast and cable networks carried Joe Biden’s press conference Thursday in Brussels, where he is meeting with NATO allies, and reporters keyed in on one possibility: That Russia would use chemical weapons in the Ukraine war. “We will respond,” Biden told reporters. “The nature of the respond will depend on the…