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Yekaterina Mizulina, the leader of Russia's crackdown on anti-war artists and content creators, has been challenged by college student in the republic of Tatarstan, media outlets reported Friday, in an uncommon example of public backlash to her work.Videos of heated debates between Mizulina, who heads the Kremlin-aligned Safe Internet League, and

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Russia’s state financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring hasadded jailed leftist activist Sergei Udaltsov to its list of “extremists and terrorists.”

Udaltsov was placed in pre-trial detention last month on accusations of justifying terrorism in social media posts.

He faces up to seven years in prison if found guilty.

Being added to Russia's registry of

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Moscow on Friday declined to say whether a convicted gunman who killed a former Chechen fighter in Berlin 4 years ago was a Russian representative after President Vladimir Putin hinted that he wanted him released in a three-way prisoner exchange.In an interview with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson published Thursday, Putin brought up the case of Vadim

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Fire Destroys Part of Famous Writers& House in Moscow

On late Thursday night a fire broke out in the “writers’ house” behind metro Aeroport in Moscow. According to initial reports, the fire started in one apartment on the top floor of 4 Ulitsa Chernyakhovskovo and almost immediately set the roof on fire. The fire spread across the roofs of two more houses before being contained with the use of

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A group of Russian tourists arrived in Pyongyang on Friday, AFP photos and video showed, the first known foreign tour group to visit nuclear-armed North Korea since before pandemic-linked border closures.

Their arrival comes as Moscow and Pyongyang bolster ties, with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un making a rare overseas trip to meet President

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Russian investigators said Friday they have detained a blogger on charges of “rehabilitating Nazism” after she posted an Instagram video in which she pretends to tickle a World War II monument.

Investigators initially opened a criminal case against 23-year-old Alyona Agafonova in July, accusing her of “cynical and immoral acts” toward the Mot