Bloomberg Opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov, a former deputy in Russia’s lower house of parliament, was detained, Tass reported, citing unidentified people in law enforcement. Lera Gudkova, the politician’s wife, confirmed the detention via Facebook and said his aunt was also being held in the case. His detention comes amid a widening crackdown against opponents of President Vladimir Putin since Kremlin ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden visited Tulsa to mark the 100th anniversary of a White mob’s destruction of the city’s once-thriving Black business district, where he said Vice President Kamala Harris would lead efforts to pass a new federal expansion of voting rights. Biden visited privately with survivors of the Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst episodes of racial violence ...

Bloomberg Budapest will rename the streets surrounding the planned campus of a Chinese university to protest against the project, which Hungary’s opposition says is emblematic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s drift from western democratic values. The streets in the capital’s industrial south, where Fudan University plans to set up a campus, will be renamed Uighur Martyrs street, Dalai Lama street ...