Telegram creator and chief Pavel Durov was transferred to a court house in Paris on Wednesday where he might be formally charged, a source near to the case against the billionaire informed AFP.The Russian-born tech entrepreneur was jailed at the French capital's Le Bourget airport late Saturday on suspicion of failing to act against illegal content on
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Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Russia’s Kirov region, located some 700 kilometers east of Moscow, regional authorities said Wednesday, marking the first such attack on the region since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

“Two drones were shot down, and three fell on the grounds of the Zenit plant in the town of Kotelnich, where they caught f

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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 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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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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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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