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There is growing evidence that Russia is using shadow tanker fleets to prevent a Western oil rate cap, a watchdog committee of British lawmakers cautioned on Wednesday.Arguing Britain and its allies must preserve sanctions and military assistance for Ukraine for as long as it takes, the panel from parliament's unelected upper House of Lords

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 February 2024

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An unmanned drone crashed near the center of St. Petersburg on Wednesday, triggering a surge at an oil refinery, local mediareported, marking the second such incident in the city over the previous month. According to the news outlet Fontanka, which cites anonymous sources, a Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system chance at the drone at around

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 February 2024

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MOSCOW – Anti-war Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin said Wednesday he submitted 105,000 signatures endorsing his candidacy for the Central Election Commission’s (CEC) review.

Nadezhdin, 60, the nominee from the center-right Civic Initiative party, has seen an uptick in support in recent weeks with Russians standing in long lines to

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 February 2024

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A Russian photographer went on trial Tuesday for posting a rainbow flag online, marking the first case of a person being charged for displaying the LGBT symbol since Russia banned the so-called “international LGBT public movement” as an “extremist” organization.

Russia’s Supreme Court in November outlawed the “international LGBT movement,” with indi

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Hundreds of websites on the Russian-speaking internet were unattainable Tuesday evening as a DNSSEC failure took. ru and.Ñ€Ñ„ domains offline.Users both inside and outside Russia suffered interruptions of significant web-based platforms like Tinkoff Bank, online markets Avito and Wildberries, search engine Yandex and telecoms provider MTS.The Moscow

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A court in Yerevan on Tuesday rejected Russia’s request to extradite a man who fled the republic of Chechnya after being tortured because he was suspected of being gay, an LGBTQ+ rights group said.

Salman Mukaev was detained by security services in his native Chechnya in 2020, after which he was subject to interrogation and torture, according to SK