A Russian man arrested earlier this year for organizing LGBTQ+ travel tours has died in pre-trial detention, rights groups and Russian state media reported Sunday.

Andrei Kotov, the director of the travel agency Men Travel, was charged last month with taking part and organizing "extremist" activities.

The OVD-Info rights group cited Kotov's lawyer

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Authorities in Moscow promised Sunday to retaliate after the channels of several state media outlets were obstructed for EU-based users of the messaging app Telegram.The Telegram channels of RIA Novosti, Rossiya 1, Channel One, NTV, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta stopped being available within the EU previously on Sunday, according to media reports.Neithe
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday demanded that Russia admit it fired at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet before it crashed last week, accusing Moscow of initially trying to cover up the cause of the deadly accident.

Aliyev made the accusation during an interview with state media four days after the AZAL Embraer 190 plane crashed in

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Russia warned on Saturday of severe ecological damage from a substantial oil spill in the Black Sea caused when 2 tankers clashed in a storm near Crimea, which declared a state of emergency.One tanker sank and another ran aground on December 15 in the Kerch Strait between Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula.Thousands of volunteers have been
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Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday that Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane attempted to land in Grozny before crashing, breaking the Kremlin's silence as speculation installed Russia may have accidentally shot down the plane.The Russian leader called his Azerbaijani equivalent Ilham Aliyev, excusing the occurrence
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Germany said on Saturday the suspected sabotage of an undersea power cable television connecting Finland and Estonia this week was a wake-up call that required brand-new EU sanctions against Russia's shadow fleet. The Estlink 2 cable television that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was detached from the grid on Wednesday, simply over a month after two
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