EU remains firmly polarized against resuming Russian gas imports, expert says
Regardless of U.S. overtures to the Kremlin, the European Union currently has a firm consensus on ending imports of Russian gas, former Ukrainian ambassador to the EU Kostiantyn Yelisieiev told NV Radio on Oct. 27.
Russian electronics billionaire Dmitry Alekseyev has publicly defended jailed election expert Alexander Kynev, condemning his detention conditions. According to Alekseyev, Kynev was arrested on charges of attempting to sell drugs and is currently held in an overcrowded cell with a hole in the floor for a toilet. The businessman, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $1.6 billion, wrote on Facebook that Kynev is a scholar and that persecuting such individuals is portrayed as medieval barbarism in the Strugatsky brothers' sci-fi classic "Hard to Be a God."
Kynev, a well-known expert on Russian regional politics, was arrested in a drug case on September 25 and has since gone on a hunger strike in pretrial detention, sharing a cell with 34 other people. His lawyer has noted that Kynev's leg is in a cast and he cannot use the toilet due to the poor conditions.
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