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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through a helicopter window in Russia on July 20, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through a helicopter window in Russia on July 20, 2023.

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Russian ultra-nationalist who has gotten away with criticizing the Kremlin for years is arrested after calling Putin a 'cowardly mediocrity'

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Igor Girkin stands with his arms folded inside a defendant's cage.
Igor Girkin (Strelkov), the former top military commander of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" and nationalist blogger, detained earlier Friday and accused of extremism, sits inside a glass defendants' cage during a hearing to consider a request on his pre-trial arrest in Moscow on July 21, 2023.

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