Russian authorities might quickly block the popular messaging platform Discord, the Kommersant company daily reported Friday, citing sources knowledgeable about the matter.Discord, which permits users to interact in virtual neighborhoods referred to as servers, is widely utilized by gamers, students and cryptocurrency traders. It reportedly has in between 29 and 40 mil
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) pressed criminal charges against two Australian journalists and one Romanian journalist for illegally crossing the border into the southwestern Kursk region while on reporting assignments, state media reported Friday.

Authorities in Russia have so far charged 12 foreign journalists over their work in the

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Alexei Soldatov, a pioneering figure of the Russian web and former deputy minister, is passing away in prison while serving a two-year sentence for abuse of power, his kid, investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, said in a social networks post on Thursday.Known as the dad of the Russian web, Alexei Soldatov led the Relcom computer system network
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Google has restricted the creation of new accounts inside Russia, state media reported Thursday, citing Russia’s Digital Communications Ministry.

Authorities said that Telecom operators reported a “significant decrease in the number of SMS messages sent by” Google to users in Russia, referring to messages the tech company uses to verify new account

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An American rejected his U.S. citizenship in a Moscow court on Thursday, stating he was the victim of political persecution in the United States, Russian state news firms reported.Joseph Tater remained in court after being accused of assaulting a police officer after abusing personnel at a hotel in the Russian capital last month.In an appeal hearing at
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The Kremlin said Thursday that an updated nuclear doctrine allowing Moscow to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states should be seen as a warning to the West.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced plans to broaden Russia's rules on the use of its nuclear stockpiles, allowing it to unleash a nuclear response in the event of

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