Russian authorities have charged prominent Chechen human rights lawyer and activist Abubakar Yangulbaev with "calls for terrorism,"  the Ostorozhno Novosti news outlet reported Friday.

Chechen law enforcement officials opened the charges in response to a post made by Yangulbaev on the Telegram messaging app last year, according to unnamed sources

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Senior Chechen officialsapplauded the boy of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov for presumably battering a teen who was apprehended earlier this year on charges of burning the Koran.Nikita Zhuravel, 19, wasdetained in May on suspicion of publicly burning a Koran in the southwestern area of Volgograd. The criminal case versus him was handed to
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A Moscow court has put a double U.S.-Russian resident, who is serving a prison sentence for bribery, in pre-trial detention on charges of espionage, according to court data published Thursday.Russian-born American Gene Spector deals with 20 years in jail if convicted. Few information outside the court judgment have actually been revealed, as espionage cases are
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Russia has steadily broadened its sprawling facial acknowledgment security system given that attacking Ukraine in 2015, The Moscow Times' Russian servicereported Thursday, pointing out thousands of state procurement documents.While officially designed to combat criminal activity, Russia's facial recognition system has been more effective in determining anti-war activists a
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Russian forces have actually ruined a Ukrainian drone targeting Moscow, authorities said, the current in a series of attacks on the capital.Russia's Defense Ministry stated its flying force downed a Ukrainian drone over the Russian capital at around 04:00 am on Friday. The unmanned drone, after being exposed to air defense weapons, altered its flight course and
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A Russia-installed court in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk area has actually jailed 3 Ukrainian soldiers, Russia's Investigative Committee stated Thursday, implicating them of a series of crimes consisting of murder.The decisions came a day after the very same court sentenced 3 other Ukrainian soldiers, all of whom were charged with inflicting vicious treatment on the
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