Russian tech companies Yandex and VKontakte are being grilled by government officials for making their homegrown artificial intelligence chatbots avoid subjects related to the invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Tuesday.

Presidential Human Rights Council chief Valery Fadeyev said he was surprised to learn that Yandex’sAlisa a

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesdayordered Russia to pay $56,500 in damages to the jailed mother of a popular critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.Zarema Musaeva, the mother of exiled Chechen human rights attorney and activist Abubakar Yangulbaev, was violentlydetained in Nizhny Novgorod and by force required to Chechnya in
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Russia’s Main Directorate for Traffic Safety (GIBDD) has been renamed back to the Soviet-era State Automobile Inspectorate (GAI), the state-run TASS news agency reported Tuesday, citing the head of the traffic police force.

“We’ve now become the State Automobile Inspectorate,” the agency head Mikhail Chernkiv said during an Interior Ministry meeti

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A court in Siberia has turned down an appeal by Ksenia Fadeyeva, an ally of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, against her nine-year jail sentence for extremism, regional mediareported Tuesday.Fadeyeva, Navalny's former local organizer in the city of Tomsk, was among his couple of allies who stayed in Russia regardless of the threat of criminal p
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A Russian court has extended the pre-trial detention of two lawyers who represented the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the independent news website Mediazona reported Tuesday.

Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Lipster, and Igor Sergunin were arrested last October on accusations of participating in “extremist” activities for passing Navalny’s letters on to h

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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday urged countries to balance fear of escalation against Ukraine's need to defend itself, saying Kyiv had the right to use Western arms to strike in Russia.

"According with the law of war, it is perfectly possible and there is no contradiction.

"I could retaliate or I could fight against the one who

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