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Authorities in Moscowsaid Tuesday they could not confirm reports that a Russian fighter jet downed an American surveillance drone over the Black Sea after Ukraine launched a deadly strike against annexed Crimea said to have been carried out with U.S.-supplied missiles. Pro-war Russian bloggersclaimed late Monday that a MiG-31 fighter jet “shot down” a Global Hawk reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea. An anonymous U.S. military official later denied the reported incident, according to Reuters’ Pentagon correspondent Idrees Ali. “To be honest, I don’t have this kind of information,” Kremlin s...
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Moscow will block access to 81 European media outlets in retaliation to the EU’s ban against four Kremlin-funded news organizations, Russia’s Foreign Ministryannounced Tuesday. Brussels said last month it wouldsuspend the broadcasting activities of the state-run RIA Novosti news agency, the pro-government newspapers Izvestia and Rossiiskaya Gazeta, as well as the news website Voice of Europe starting on June 25. In response, Moscow designated 81 newspapers, broadcasters and magazines from all but two EU member states that would no longer be accessible inside Russia. Among those impacted by the...
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Russia’s first openly transgender politician, who last month made the surprise announcement that she had returned to her gender assigned at birth,said in an interview published on Tuesday that she was forced to undergo a detransition following threats she would be sent to a psychiatric hospital. Yulia Alyoshina, who dropped a bid last year to run for governor in Siberia’s Altai region as a member of the opposition Civic Initiative party, told followers in May that she “realized” she was a man and started going by the name Roman Alyoshin. “I went through old albums of my ancestors, prayed for t...
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The head of the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Tuesday ordered all regional officials to undergo thorough vetting following attacks on religious sites in the region over the weekend, which resulted in the deaths of at least 21 people including law enforcement officers. “I’ve ordered the inspection and scrutinization of the personal records of all those in leadership positions,” regional head Sergei Melikov told Dagestan’s legislative assembly. Melikov’s announcement comes after the dismissal of a local district head whose sons were suspected to be among the gunmen who carried out Sunda...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow early next month, Indian and Russian media reported Monday. The Indian English-language newspaper The Tribune, without citing sources,reported that Modi was expected to visit Moscow on July 8 to “underline the engagement” between the two countries. Likewise, Russian officials quoted by state media said they were “actively preparing” for the meeting. “I can confirm that we’re preparing a visit by the prime minister of India,” Putin’s aide Yury Ushakovtold the state-run TASS news agency without disclo...
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At least two people have died in a major fire that broke out at a building linked to a Western-sanctioned scientific research institute in the Moscow region, local authorities said Monday. Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyovsaid the fire engulfed the Platan research institute building in the town of Fryazino. Platan has been under war-related U.S. sanctions since June 2022 for producing and distributing “pigments and dyestuff” used in the defense industry. “Unfortunately, two people were killed in the fire in Fryazino,” Vorobyov wrote on Telegram. He said earlier that one person was evacuat...
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Updated with death toll. At least six people died in a major fire that broke out Monday at a Moscow region research center sanctioned by the West, regional authorities said Tuesday. Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said the fire engulfed the Platan research institute building in the town of Fryazino. Platan, a producer of defense electronics, has been under war-related U.S.sanctions since June 2022 for producing and distributing “pigments and dyestuff” used by the military. “Unfortunately, two people were killed in the fire in Fryazino,” Vorobyov said Monday. The following day, investiga...
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Brussels on Monday sanctioned Russian pop singer Shaman over his role in promoting Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, applying restrictive measures against the performer that include an asset freeze and travel ban. “Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, [Shaman] has repeatedly participated in Kremlin-organized concerts, including the Kremlin’s anniversary event for that war, and given concerts in the illegally occupied regions of Ukraine,” the EU said in its sanctions listing. Shaman, whose real name is Yaroslav Dronov, also performed “as part of troop entert...
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Prominent indigenous rights activist Fayil Alsynov, whose jailing earlier this year sparked mass protests in Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan, was beaten while serving a prison sentence in the Perm region, his lawyersaid Monday. Alsynov was sentenced in January to four years in prison for “inciting ethnic hatred.” Some observers believe he was targeted for campaigning against illegal gold mining operations in his native Bashkortostan. “I can confirm that he was subjected to bodily harm,” Alsynov’s lawyer, Ilnur Suyundukov, said of his client’s beating, adding that local prosecutors were look...
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At least 15 police officers and four civilians including a priest are dead after gunmen opened fire at two Orthodox churches and two synagogues in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday evening. Russian law enforcement has deemed the attacks, which saw both police and National Guard officers deployed, as a terrorist attack. The attacks are the latest incident involving the majority Muslim republic following an anti-Israeli mob at the republic’s main airport in October 2023 and the Moscow concert hall massacre of March 2024, which was partly carried out by Dagestani nationals an...
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