Charles Maynes

Independent radio producer and reporter based in Moscow

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Russia detains U.S. citizen working for 'Wall Street Journal' Moscow bureau

Friday, March 31, 2023

An American journalist has been arrested in Russia and accused of espionage. It's the first time an American correspondent has been accused of spying since since the Cold War.

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After a Russian girl drew an antiwar poster, her dad faces defamation charges

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

In a small Russian town, a father and daughter have been separated by the state after she drew an antiwar poster in school. He was convicted of defaming the military; she's now in an orphanage.

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The leaders of China and Russia have finished talks. Here are some takeaways

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

China's Xi Jinping says he has a peace plan for Ukraine and wants to mediate an end to the war. Ukraine and its neighbors are skeptical.

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For Russia and China, ties with the West are strained

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

China's leader Xi Jinping is in Moscow this week on a highly watched state visit.

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West watches Xi-Putin meetings to see what they might mean for the war in Ukraine

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

China's president Xi Jinping and Russia's president Vladimir Putin begin their second day of a state visit in Moscow. Center stage is what this may — or may not mean — for the war in Ukraine.

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China's President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a 3-day state visit with Russia's Putin

Monday, March 20, 2023

The meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin is expected to focus heavily on the war in Ukraine, and comes after a surprise weekend trip by Putin into Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia.

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Putin has made a surprise visit to the occupied city of Mariupol in Ukraine

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol in Ukraine. He also visited Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.

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The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Putin

Friday, March 17, 2023

The ICC has issued warrants for the Russian president and his children's rights commissioner for alleged war crimes involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian children.

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Russia awards pilots involved in confrontation with a U.S. drone over Black Sea

Friday, March 17, 2023

The United States accused Russia of an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" intercept of its MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that forced it to be brought down over the Black Sea this week

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China's leader Xi Jinping will meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week

Friday, March 17, 2023

Moscow said the long-anticipated visit is coming at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin. The talks are expected to focus on the war in Ukraine, though it wasn't mentioned explicitly.

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Despite downed drone, U.S. says it will keep flying near Ukraine

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. will continue flying 'wherever international law allows.' This comes a day after Russia downed a U.S. drone in the Black Sea.

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Ukraine's government says it wasn't involved in the attacks on Nord Stream pipelines

Wednesday, March 08, 2023

An adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the reports are based on "anonymous conjecture but not real facts." The attacks, he said, are "devoid of tactical sense."

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 'Putin's Chef,' has emerged from the shadows with his Wagner Group

Monday, March 06, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's Chef" because of his company's origins in the catering business, now fields a mercenary army of 50,000. Its role in Ukraine is central to Russia's war effort.

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An American walked her pet cow in Moscow's Red Square. Spoiler alert: Trouble ensued

Saturday, March 04, 2023

Animal rights activist Alicia Day says she routinely walks her farm animals in public to encourage people to think twice about eating meat. Why she chose to do so in the center of Moscow isn't clear.

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Belarus Nobel Peace Prize laureate sentenced to 10 years in prison

Friday, March 03, 2023

Ales Bialiatski was one of the leaders of Belarus' pro-democracy movement, inspiring protests against what activists maintained were fraudulent presidential elections in 2020.

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U.S. and Russia's top diplomats meet at G-20 summit

Thursday, March 02, 2023

The brief talks marked the first face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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U.S. and Russia's top diplomats meet for the first time since the Ukraine war began

Thursday, March 02, 2023

Relations between the two countries have collapsed over the Ukraine war, with the U.S. slapping thousands of sanctions on Russia, and militarily, economically and diplomatically supporting Ukraine.

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How life in Russia has changed since its invasion of Ukraine

Thursday, February 23, 2023

One year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, life in Russia has changed profoundly. It is a place of lost freedoms, historical grievances, pride and despair.

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Biden and Putin both gave speeches for the anniversary of Russian invasion

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

President Biden spoke in Warsaw ahead of the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and a day after his Kyiv visit. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian nation in Moscow.

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Putin addresses his nation as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the 1-year mark

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Russian President Putin addresses his nation three days before the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the day after President Biden's unannounced visit to Ukraine's capital Kyiv.

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