Russia has little trouble making headlines ¡ª and March was no exception.
First, tens of thousands of Russians turned out to mourn opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony in February. Then, in a coordinated protest, many lined up to vote against President Vladimir Putin in the recent presidential election ¡ª so that no one could mistake as truth the Kremlin¡¯s inevitable declaration that Putin had won his fifth six-year term in a landslide. Finally, a horrifying terrorist attack on a concert venue outside of Moscow ¡ª attributed to the Islamic State Khorasan branch of the Islamic State group ¡ª killed at least 143 people and wounded more than 300.
Were it not for so many tragedies, another kind of Russia-related story might have received far more attention. The 93-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch ¡ª who owns Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal in the United States, and The Times in the United Kingdom ¡ª is engaged to a Soviet-born molecular biologist 25 years his junior, Elena Zhukova.
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