Russian President Vladimir Putin has posthumously awarded Vladlen Tatarsky, a prominent Russian war correspondent and blogger, the Order of Courage. Tatarsky was recognized “for the courage and bravery he displayed in line of his professional duty,” a presidential order published on Monday said.
Tatarsky was killed in a bomb blast on Sunday during a meeting with followers in a café in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. The Kremlin denounced the incident as a “terrorist attack.” Russia’s Interior Ministry published a video featuring the main suspect in the case, Darya Trepova, who admitted bringing a bomb camouflaged as a statuette to the meeting.
Later, Trepova allegedly claimed that she had been recruited by a journalist linked to the Ukrainian security services, the Russian media reported. An exiled ex-Russian State Duma deputy, Ilya Ponomarev, who currently resides in Kiev, claimed on Monday that he knew the masterminds behind the attack while denying any links to…
