Presidential candidates will be allowed to air ads on state outlets from mid-February – a month before the vote Campaign season in the Russian media ahead of the presidential election in March will kick off next month and continue until just before voters head to the polls, the country’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) announced on…

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Secretive British ‘dirty tricks’ unit smeared Kenya’s leftist vice president during the Cold War, The Guardian reported A covert unit within the British Foreign Office targeted Kenya’s first vice president, Oginga Odinga, in the 1960s as part of a “black propaganda” campaign, The Guardian reported on Saturday, citing newly declassified documents. After Kenyan independence from…