cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with dramatic video. we re going to show it to you right here showing the moment a bomb explodes in a cafe in st petersburg, russia, killing a well known russian pro war blogger. may have been presented to the blogger hidden inside a figurine. the dead blogger had more than a half million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. cnn s matthew chance is in moscow for us. well jim. this explosion killed one of russia s most prominent pro war military bloggers, posting under the name of vlad lent tartasky. he accumulated more than half a million followers on his pro war telegram channel in which he was notoriously hard line enthusiastically, for instance, declaring on ukraine we will kill everyone. we will rob everyone we will have our way. and, of course, like other prominent russian military bloggers criticizing aspects a
defamation settlement involving a u. s media company, and fox, now facing an even bigger lawsuit from another voting company. plus putin s crackdown has just been sentenced to 25 years in a russian prison for speaking out against the war in ukraine. vladimir kara murza wife is outfront tonight. and a 20 year old woman shot and killed for pulling into the wrong driveway. police chief says the gunman showing zero remorse that chief is my guest tonight. let s go, outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight 787.5 million. it is a stunning number, and that is the settlement between fox news and dominion. in fact, it is the largest publicly known defamation settlement involving a me company in the united states. and by the way when you look at the value of it for dominion, it is 10 times the value. of dominion voting systems. it s massive anyway. you look at it now. in a statement along with the settlement, fox writes, in part quote, we acknowledge the court s ruling
ST PETERSBURG, Jan 26 A Russian court yesterday sentenced a woman to 27 years in prison for blowing up an anti-Ukraine military blogger in what prosecutors say was a brazen.
space around the kremlin, and, really, does putin need any further excuse to shoot more ukrainians or to launch more artillery, no. so, yeah, is there this set of groups of partisans that are striking out against the russian infrastructure and government. things have been blowing up besides the stuff over the kremlin, fuel depots, a nationalistic war blogger who was attacked in a car bomb recently, and who did that? so i think the kremlin is probably asking, do we have a problem inside of russia that isn t necessarily ukraine. the fsb, the internal intelligence service would be in charge, and they re usually good at sussing out and finding if there s any groups trying to operate against the kremlin. but, yeah, it s something else that putin has to worry about. at the same time, russia is good about staging things,