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A university student who fled Russia last year to evade prosecution for criticizing the war in Ukraine said Monday that the Russian authorities canceled her internal passport.

“I’m not worried since I didn’t have any rights before anyway,” Olesya Krivtsova wrote in a Telegram post announcing her passport cancelation. “The only thing that’s worrying

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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The Dutch holding company that split from Russian tech giant Yandex after the West introduced sanctions over the war in Ukraineannounced Tuesday that it was relaunching as an artificial intelligence venture in Europe.

“Today we are launching Nebius Group, a tech company that aims to become a leading European provider of infrastructure and services t

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Finnish President Alexander Stubb on Tuesday signed a controversial law allowing the country’s border guards to refuse entry to asylum seekers who cross over from Russia.

The Nordic country’s right-wing government had for months argued that new legal tools were needed to combat an uptick in asylum seekers from Russia, which in mid-December prompted

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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At the age of 16, Yegor Balazeikin, a high-school student from St. Petersburg, threw Molotov cocktails at two military conscription centers — an anti-war protest that had become widespread across Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.

The devices failed to ignite. No one was injured.

But Balazeikin, who was initially charged with hooliganism, was

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab prepares to slowly minimize its operations in the U.S. from July 20, the company informed state-run media on Monday.Kaspersky's exit follows the U.S. Commerce Department sanctioned the company in June, banning it from offering and updating its popular antivirus software application in the nation. The company has

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Authorities in Russia have called on Google to restore more than 200 pro-government YouTube channels that have been blocked since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the state-run TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

Russia’s state media regulator Roskomnadzor said it sent Google CEO Sundar Pichai a request to unblock the channels of “Russian media, f