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A Russian court has fined professional photographer Inna Mosina for publishing a rainbow flag on social networks, the independent news website Mediazonareported Monday.Mosina was thefirst individual charged with displaying extremist symbols after Russia banned the so-called international LGBT public motion in November.Mosina confronted 15 days in prison and a

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 06 February 2024

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Russian authorities will most likely start obstructing significant VPN services in March, the head of the Kremlin-aligned Safe Internet League stated Monday. Downloads of VPNs, which help users gain access to blocked sites, surged in Russia after authorities started obstructing Western social networks platforms and ratings of Russian independent news outlets amidst the

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 06 February 2024

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The world's biggest wild reindeer population could vanish in the next few years if the Russian federal government does not punish overhunting, according to a new study released by a group of scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences.Over the past 20 years, the size of Siberia's Taymyr reindeer population has actually seen a fourfold decline,

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 06 February 2024

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A Ukrainian strike on a pastry shop in the occupied eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk over the weekend eliminated 3 officials, Russian-installed representatives said Monday.The Kremlin has blasted the attack that killed at least 28 people as a monstrous terrorist act. On Monday, authorities in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region said a local

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 06 February 2024

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Georgian security officials said Monday that they intercepted numerous dynamites declared to be from Ukraine and meant to be transported to the southwestern Russian city of Voronezh.Georgia's State Security Service (SSG) stated the explosive gadgets, which were presumably sent out from the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, shown up by minivan at t

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 06 February 2024

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Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has found flaws in more than 15% of the signatures of endorsement collected by pro-peace presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin, his campaign team said Monday.

Nadezhdin, who has emerged as the leading pro-peace voice ahead of the March presidential election, submitted some 105,000 signatures to CEC for