Siberian journalist and activist Maria Ponomarenko, sent to prison under Russia's wartime censorship laws, threatened to cut her wrists in protest versus the abuse she states she has withstood while incarcerated.Ponomarenko was sentenced to six years in prison in February 2023 for spreading out phony news about Russia's 2022 bombing of a theater in Mariu

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Russian attacks on eastern Ukraine's partially occupied Donetsk area killed six individuals, the governor of the region said Wednesday, as Moscow revealed the capture of another town in the area.The commercial region has suffered a few of the heaviest combating because the start of Russia's full-blown invasion in 2022, in addition to going back to 2014. R

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Russian internet suppliers have started implementing workarounds to speed up YouTube amid what seems a government effort to throttle the video streaming platform, the Kommersant company daily reported Wednesday, pointing out industry insiders.The relocation comes almost a month after online users in Russia began experiencing sharp decreases in

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Indonesian authorities have “no information” to confirm earlier reports alleging that their citizens are being recruited to fight in Ukraine, the Southeast Asia country’s embassy in Russia said in a statement sent to the Moscow Times.

“So far, the Embassy has no information that may corroborate the alleged involvement of Indonesian nationals f

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French and Emirati spies hacked Telegram creator Pavel Durov's iPhone in 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, mentioning confidential sources familiar with the matter.The joint spy operation code-named Purple Music apparently came from concerns about the Islamic State's use of Telegram, a personal messaging app, for recruitment and plott

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) jailed six adherents of a global terrorist company in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, state media reported Wednesday, pointing out police officials.According to the FSB, the 6 jailed guys were preparing an attack on the authorities and an Orthodox church. Authorities say all of

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