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The crackdown on social media in Russia has accelerated since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Facebook and Twitter have been inaccessible in Russia since early March, and Instagram was blocked in the country a week ago.

As part of this campaign to block social media, on Monday a Russian court banned Meta, the parent

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 27 March 2022

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12 National guards who were dismissed for refusing to go to war in Ukraine are appealing the decision in an attempt to get reinstated, reported Telegram channel SOTA.

The guardsmen, who were fired for failing to carry out orders to cross the Ukrainian border at the start of the war, are appealing their dismissal, said the lawyer representing the

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 25 March 2022

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The number of Russians who own real estate in Dubai (United Arab Emirates, UAE) has quadrupled in two weeks, according to reports by Lenta.

The figures, which were originally published by Metropolitan Premium Properties, a real estate agent based in Dubai, stated that over the last two weeks there has been a surge in Russians buying and renting

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 25 March 2022

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U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border Friday, trying to signal Western resolve in the face of a Russian invasion that has increasingly turned to a grinding war of attrition.

Air Force One will jet into the eastern Polish town of Rzeszow — bringing the US president less than 80 kilometers (50 miles) from a w

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 25 March 2022

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As free speech was curtailed, her friends imprisoned and the Russian economy tanked in the days after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Marina packed her bags and fled Moscow.

But more than a thousand miles away in her new home in Serbia, the 41-year-old former travel agent has found herself unable to escape the long arm of Russian

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 25 March 2022

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Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said Thursday.

The embattled nation uses details resulting from the process to try to track down and notify the families of the dead, in an act Ukraine says is