Alexei Navalny, the jailed critic of Vladimir Putin, has stated he's being investigated on terrorism costs that would see him sentenced to 30 years in jail.The Russian opposition chief is already serving sentences totalling 11 and half years on costs together with fraud. In feedback posted on Twitter by Mr Navalny's aides, the Kremlin critic stated: "They have presented absurd allegations that threaten me with 30 years in prison... that I, while in prison, commit terrorist acts."Mr Navalny, a longstanding and outspoken critic of Mr Putin, is being held in a maximum-security IK-6 penal colony at Melekhovo, about 115 miles east of Moscow.In March, he was sentenced to 9 years in jail after he was discovered responsible of large-scale fraud and contempt of court docket. He has re...

MOSCOW — Russia‘s defense minister hosted his counterparts from Iran, Syria and Turkey on Tuesday for talks that were part of the Kremlin’s efforts to assist dealer a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments. The Russian Defense Ministry mentioned the talks centered on “practical steps to s...

Singapore has hanged a person over a hashish smuggling plot - regardless of calls from the United Nations to cease the execution.Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged at daybreak on Wednesday after being discovered responsible of conspiring to smuggle a kilogram of hashish into the nation from neighbouring Malaysia. Protesters beforehand claimed that the 46-year-old, who denied involvement within the plot, had been convicted on weak proof - a declare denied by authorities in Singapore.Relatives and activists had beforehand despatched letters to Singapore's President Halimah Yacob to plead for leniency.His sentence additionally drew the eye of the United Nations Human Rights Office, which referred to as on the federal government to "urgently reconsider", whereas British entrepreneur Ri...