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1 week ago | 
wargny.com | Paul Ricard |Anna Smolchenko
Elle s'est évadée en pensant au chanteur Brassens et à l'acteur Pierre Richard: la critique de cinéma russe Ekaterina Barabach, qui risquait jusqu'à dix ans de prison dans son pays pour avoir dénoncé la guerre en Ukraine, a fui pour la France grâce à l'aide de Reporters sans frontières (RSF). "J'ai laissé ma mère de 96 ans en me disant que je ne la verrai plus jamais.
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1 week ago | 
capitol.fr | Paul Ricard |Anna Smolchenko
Elle s'est évadée en pensant au chanteur Brassens et à l'acteur Pierre Richard: la critique de cinéma russe Ekaterina Barabach, qui risquait jusqu'à dix ans de prison dans son pays pour avoir dénoncé la guerre en Ukraine, a fui pour la France grâce à l'aide de Reporters sans frontières (RSF). "J'ai laissé ma mère de 96 ans en me disant que je ne la verrai plus jamais.
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1 week ago | 
boursedirect.fr | Paul Ricard |Anna Smolchenko
Elle s'est évadée en pensant au chanteur Brassens et à l'acteur Pierre Richard: la critique de cinéma russe Ekaterina Barabach, qui risquait jusqu'à dix ans de prison dans son pays pour avoir dénoncé la guerre en Ukraine, a fui pour la France grâce à l'aide de Reporters sans frontières (RSF). "J'ai laissé ma mère de 96 ans en me disant que je ne la verrai plus jamais.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Anna Smolchenko |Paul Ricard
A Russian reporter critical of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine said on Monday she had fled to France after Reporters Without Borders helped coordinate her escape. Speaking in an interview with AFP at the media watchdog's headquarters in Paris, Ekaterina Barabash, 64, said she even considered suicide to avoid going to prison. "I began looking for some poison," said Barabash, who faces up to 10 years in prison for criticising Moscow's army. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Russian prison, it's not a life.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Francesco Fontemaggi |Anna Smolchenko |Alice Hackman
France on Thursday hailed talks on the Ukraine war between top US and European officials during which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed a US peace plan. President Emmanuel Macron's office said the talks launched a "positive process" as Europe seeks to be included in efforts to end the three-year-old war. The meetings in the French capital included Macron, Rubio, US envoy Steve Witkoff, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, German officials and Ukrainian ministers.
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1 month ago | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Maryam El Hamouchi |Anna Smolchenko
Maryam El Hamouchi and Anna Smolchenko8 April 2025 at 11:03 am·3-min readFrench authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel that sentenced far-right leader Marine Le Pen to an election ban, prosecutors said. The bombshell judgement, which could crush the 56-year-old's dream of winning the French presidency in 2027, stunned France's political establishment and infuriated many in her National Rally (RN) party.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Maryam El Hamouchi |Anna Smolchenko
French authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel that sentenced far-right leader Marine Le Pen to an election ban, prosecutors said. The bombshell judgement, which could crush the 56-year-old's dream of winning the French presidency in 2027, stunned France's political establishment and infuriated many in her National Rally (RN) party.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Stuart Williams |Anna Smolchenko
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said in an interview published Wednesday that she would use all possible legal avenues to stand in 2027 elections despite a ban on her running and hailed the promise of a speedy appeal of her criminal conviction. In his first reaction to Monday's bombshell judgement, President Emmanuel Macron told members of the government that the French judiciary was "independent" and that "judges must be protected", according to an official present at the meeting.
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1 month ago | 
ibtimes.com | Francesco Fontemaggi |Valerie Leroux |Anna Smolchenko |Stuart Williams
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday warned Russia was still showing a "desire for war" despite efforts to forge a ceasefire in Ukraine, ahead of a summit aimed at boosting Ukrainian security under a potential truce. Macron is on Thursday to welcome European leaders alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to agree what security guarantees Europe can offer Ukraine once a ceasefire deal is reached in the more than three-year-old war.
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1 month ago | 
barrons.com | Francesco Fontemaggi |Valerie Leroux |Anna Smolchenko |Stuart Williams
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