Russia 'massing forces for breakthrough attempt'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Read more hereA senior member of Slovakia's government met his Russian counterpart in a rare high-level encounter between a European Union member state and a country the EU has sought to isolate.
46% : The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny visited his grave on Saturday, a day after thousands of Russians had risked arrest to pay tribute to the anti-corruption campaigner at his funeral.
42% : Hundreds of Russians have visited the grave of dead Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny today, risking arrest to pay tribute to the anti-corruption campaigner for a second day running.
39% : Mr Navalny, president Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic for more than a decade, died in an Arctic prison colony last month, where he was serving a 19-year sentence on "extremism" charges largely seen as political retribution for his opposition to the Kremlin.

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