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Ukraine Says It Shot Down Russian Strategic Bomber
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- Ukraine Says It Shot Down Russian Strategic Bomber
- Date posted
- 15 hours ago
- Description
- A Russian Tu-22M3 long-range warplane crashed in Russia's southern Stavropol region on April 19. Ukraine's air force says it was the first time it had shot down a Tu-22M3. The Russian Defense Ministry said the crash was due to a technical malfunction.
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- Explosions Reported In Iran After Suspected Israeli Strike
- Date posted
- 19 hours ago
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- State media has reported explosions in Iran after a suspected air strike by Israel near the central city of Ishafan, which is home to a nuclear facility. The IAEA nuclear watchdog reported that there was no damage to Iran's nuclear sites. U.S. sources were cited as saying Israel had attacked the area.
#irannews #irannewstoday #iranisrael
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- Residential Building Burns After Deadly Russian Attacks On Dnipropetrovsk
- Date posted
- 19 hours ago
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- Ukrainian authorities announced that Russian aerial attacks had killed at least nine people in the Dnipropetrovsk region early on April 19. Most of the casualties were in the city of Synelnykove. In the regional center, Dnipro, a five-story residential building in the downtown area caught fire after it was hit by fragments from a downed Russian missile.
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- Dozens Dead From Flooding In Pakistan And Afghanistan
- Date posted
- 23 hours ago
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- Dozens have died, crops were lost, and more than 2,000 homes were damaged or destroyed due to deadly floods around Pakistan's Peshawar and in Afghanistan's Farah Province. The flooding follows an unusually mild winter.
#afghanistan #pakistan #floods #floodinpakistan #flood
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- Footage Shows Iran's Morality Police Stopping Women Not Wearing Hijab Correctly
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Footage shared by Iranians on social media shows Iran's morality police stopping women for not wearing their hijab correctly in a fresh crackdown.
#irannews
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- Georgian Protesters Demand Ruling Party To 'Back Down' On 'Foreign Agents' Law
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Georgian protesters called on the government to withdraw its controversial "foreign agents" bill, which would require organizations with foreign funding to register their activities. For a third straight day, thousands rallied on April 17 outside parliament, which was surrounded by police.
#georgia #tbilisi #protests #voxpop
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- U.S. Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva Detained In Russia Insists She Will Walk Free
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, detained in Russia for six months for failing to register as a "foreign agent", has insisted she will walk free "as an innocent person." Kurmasheva, who works for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, is additionally charged with spreading misinformation about the Russian military. The charges are widely seen as reprisals for her journalistic work.
#russianews
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- People Build Makeshift Dams To Brace For More Flooding In Central Asia, Russia
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Thousands of residents are building makeshift dams to prepare for another wave of flooding in Central Asia and Russia that could arrive on April 20. With no help from the state, people in a village in the Russian region of Orenburg raised money to build their own 1.5-kilometer dam.
#russia #kazakhstan #floods #russianews
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- Georgian Protesters Demand Legislators Withdraw 'Foreign Agent' Law
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Tens of thousands of Georgians rallied in Tbilisi on a third day of protests against a 'foreign agent' law, requiring organizations with foreign funding to register their activities with the government. Critics compare the bill to similar legislation that has been used to silence opposition groups in Russia. The bill passed in its first reading in parliament and is due to be debated a final time in May.
#georgia #georgiaprotests #tbilisi #foreignagentlaw
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- Who's Leading The Growing Protest Movement Against Hungary's Orban?
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Who is Peter Magyar, the leader of the growing protests against Orban's government in Hungary? Protests against right-wing populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are nothing new - but the scale and frequency have ramped up. And they're often centered on a figure who parted ways with the Orban government -- Peter Magyar. And that political divorce came amid a marital split.
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- Mass Protests In Georgia Over Foreign Agent Law, Police Use Pepper Spray
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Mass protests in Tbilisi, Georgia for a second day in front of the parliament as lawmakers debated a controversial "foreign agent" law, while riot police used pepper spray against demonstrators and detained several of them.
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- Iranian RFE/RL Listeners Share Their Worries With Iran's Attack On Israel
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Listeners to RFE/RL's Radio Farda shared their worries with Iran's recent attack on Israel. Senior Israeli government ministers are reportedly still debating how the country will respond to an Iranian attack in which more than 300 missiles and drones were fired directly at the country.
#iran #israel #irannews #israelnews #iranisrael
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- Severe Floods Continue To Ravage Russia And Kazakhstan
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- Major floods in Russia and Kazakhstan continue to force people from their homes with more than 110,000 people now evacuated. In the northern Kazakh city of Petropavl, several districts were submerged.
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- Thousands Protest As Georgian "Foreign Agents" Bill Reappears In Parliament
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- Thousands of Georgians protested in Tbilisi on April 15 after lawmakers reintroduced a bill requiring foreign-funded organizations to register with the government. The ruling party previously backed the controversial "foreign agents" bill in 2023, then withdrew it.
#georgia #tbilisi #protests #foreignagentlaw #pressfreedom
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- John Bolton: Israel Has Right to Respond To Iranian Attack
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- Israel has the right to respond to Iran's attack, former U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton said in an interview with @CurrentTimeTV's Ksenia Sokolyanskaya. "If the United States were attacked with more than 320 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones, we would retaliate."
#irannews #israelnews
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- 'I Hope There Won’t Be A War': Iranians React To Israel Attack
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- Iranians react to Iran's attack on Israel, voicing apprehension about the possible consequences of their country's actions, despite images of celebrating crowds on the streets of Tehran.
#irannews #irannewstoday #israel
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- Why Slovakia's Pro-Russian President Would Not Oppose Sending Military Aid To Ukraine
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- Newly elected Slovak President Peter Pellegrini won over voters by pro-Russian rhetoric, promising to end military aid to Ukraine -- but it's unlikely to become reality. Here's why.
#ukrainenews #ukrainewar
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- "An Eerie Sense Of Overconfidence By Iran": Analysts React To Attack On Israel
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- Iranian security experts weigh in on the Iranian air strikes on Israel -- the motives, the Israeli reaction, and the risk of escalation of the broader Middle East conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that his country would emerge victorious following the unprecedented attack in which over 300 drones and missiles were intercepted.
#irannews #israel #israelnews #iran
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- Footage Shows Iran Attacking Israel With Drones And Missiles, "Vast Majority" Intercepted
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- Footage has emerged of Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel, the latter and its allies said the "vast majority" were intercepted over the skies of Jerusalem. The sound of explosions and sirens echoed throughout the city.
#israel #irannews
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- Mass Evacuations Ordered In Southern Russia, Northern Kazakhstan As Floods Surge
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Officials have ordered mass evacuations as floods continue to ravage Southern Russia and Northern Kazakhstan. Tens of thousands of residents have fled the Russian city of Orenburg and many homes have been damaged or destroyed across the border in northern Kazakhstan.
#russianews #kazakhstan
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- Ukraine Struggles To Slow Russian Advance Amid Shortage In Weapons And Manpower
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Ukraine is struggling to slow Russian advances in the front line amid shortages in weapons and manpower. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country could lose the war if it does not get more U.S. military aid. RFE/RL's @RadioSvoboda and @CurrentTimeTV journalists speak with outgunned Ukrainian soldiers as Moscow continues its efforts to overwhelm the country's defenses.
#russiaukrainewar #ukrainefrontlines #ukrainewar #ukraine #russia #zelensky #avdiivka
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- Ukrainians React To New Mobilization Law
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- Ukrainians react to a new mobilization law passed today, which expands the powers of authorities to issue draft notices and limit exemptions from military service in the face of the ongoing Russian invasion.
#ukrainenews #ukrainewar
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- Serbia Is About To Deport This Russian Family But Won't Say Why
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- The Terekh family moved to Serbia from Russia in 2019, seeking a better life. They've found jobs, paid taxes, and say they never made trouble. But now Serbia is threatening to deport them.
#russia #serbia #deportation #russianews
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- Exclusive: RFE/RL Drone Captures Scale Of Flooding As Kazakhstan Says Almost 100,000 Evacuated
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- Drone footage by @azattyqradio shows the scale of damage of the flooding in affecting several regions in Kazakhstan and Russia. In Kazakhstan, 100,000 people have been evacuated.
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- Central Asians Celebrate Eid In Russia Amid Tight Security After Moscow Terror Attack
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Despite heightened security measures following the Moscow terror attack on Crocus City Hall, thousands of Central Asian migrants attended Eid al-Fitr prayers in Moscow on April 10. Police and volunteers monitored Muslim worshippers at prayers after earlier warnings of potential terrorist threats. The three-day celebration marks the end of dawn-to-dusk fasting during the month of Ramadan.
#eid #moscow #russia #moscowattack #eidcelebration #ramadan #eidmubarak #ramadanmubarak #eidalfitr
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- Georgians Protest Against Russian-Style 'Foreign Agents' Law
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Thousands of Georgians took to the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, on April 9, to protest against a controversial "foreign agents" bill that Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, said it will reintroduce.
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- Locals Protest Against Putin As Russia Struggles With Floods
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Russians protest against Putin as Russia's southern city of Orsk, in Orenburg, continue to struggle with floodwaters that have forced thousands of residents to be evacuated. Water levels are expected to peak shortly in the Russian city of Orsk.
#russia #flood #floods #orenburg #orsk #putin
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- Expect Slovakia To Keep Arming Ukraine Even With A New Pro-Russian President
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Peter Pellegrini has won the presidential election in Slovakia, giving the country a pro-Russian leader -- so what does that mean for the EU and NATO member's support for Ukraine?
#peterpellegrini #slovakia #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
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- Ukraine Denies Involvement In Attack On Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Kyiv has denied involvement in the April 7 attack on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that three drones hit the facility but did not assign blame for the attack. The IAEA said the strike did not compromise nuclear safety.
#russiaukrainewar #zaporizhzhya #ukraine #russia #nuclearwar #nuclearpowerplant
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- The Soviet FAB Bombs Russia Uses In Ukraine To "Wipe Everything"
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Russia is using modified Soviet-era FAB bombs, according to Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the eastern Donetsk region. Massive craters in and around Adviyivka show that FAB bombs were heavily deployed by Russia in seizing the town.
#russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #ukrainenews
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- Nail In The Coffin': Disappointed Hungarians March Against Government
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
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- Tens of thousands joined an anti-government rally organized by Peter Magyar, a former insider of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party, in Budapest on April 6. The lawyer and businessman wants to run in European Parliament elections with a result that will be "the first nail in the coffin" of the Fidesz party's dominance in Hungary, he told the protesters. Magyar has been rallying criticism of the government since February, when a controversial pardon led to the resignations of President Katalin Novak and Magyar's ex-wife, Justice Minister Judit Varga.
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- Russian Strikes Leave 7 Dead, Destroy Shopping Center
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- A barrage of Russian attacks with S-300 missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones killed at least seven people in Ukraine's second-biggest city, Kharkiv, overnight on April 5-6. The Planeta Mall shopping center, a gas station, and several other civilian facilities were hit. Workers repairing smashed windows in apartment buildings described the scale of the damage across the northern part of Kharkiv as unprecedented.
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- Migrants Wait In Line 'For Days', Fearing Deportation From Russia After Moscow Attack
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- Migrants say they are waiting 'for days' in lines in Russia, fearing deportation after the recent Moscow attack, which has sparked a crackdown on Central Asian migrants.
#russianews #russia
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- Exclusive: Mother Of Moscow Terror Attack Suspect Says Son Feared Russian Police Raids
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- The mother of a Moscow terror attack suspect says her son worried that he would get caught in a Russian police raid as his resident permit neared expiration. Dalerjon Mirzoev is one of four Tajik men accused of carrying out the attack on March 22. At least 144 people were killed in the attack.
#moscowattack #russia #russianews
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- Navalny Street In The Hague? Some Dutch And Russians Call For A Lasting Tribute
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- In The Hague, activists are trying to honor the opposition leader in a permanent way: by renaming the street that hosts the Russian Embassy after Navalny.
#navalny #alekseinavalny #thehague
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- Russian Drone Attack Kill Civilians And Rescuers In Kharkiv
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- Russian drones struck several regions across Ukraine overnight on April 4, including Kharkiv, where four people died and 12 were injured. Ukrainian officials said rescue workers were attempting to save people trapped in a residential building when a second strike occurred, killing three rescuers.
#russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #russianstrike #russianews
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- How Ukrainians In Kharkiv Deal With Constant Russian Strikes And Power Cuts
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- How do Ukrainians in Kharkiv deal with constant Russian strikes, power cuts and hourly blackouts? Borys Sachalko form @CurrentTimeTV reports.
#ukrainenews #ukraine #ukrainewar
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- Locals Describe Chaos As More Kazakhs Forced To Escape Floods
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Widespread flooding in western Kazakhstan is forcing residents to escape, while many complain official rescue efforts have been disorganized with little information provided. The flooding in the Central Asian country has led to the evacuation of nearly 19,000 people.
#kazakhstan
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- Navalny Mural In Argentina Prompts Confrontation With Police
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Russian activists and supporters of the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny gathered to paint a mural in his honor in Buenos Aires, before a face-off with Argentine police who said they had received complaints. Activists told us they believed the Russian Embassy was behind phone calls to the authorities.
#russianews #navalny
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- Russia Begins Closing Prisons As Prisoners And Staff Are Recruited For War In Ukraine
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- With both prisoners and staff being recruited to fight in Ukraine, prison populations in Russia have dwindled, leading officials to close some facilities.
#russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #russia #ukraine #russianews
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- Ukrainians React To Lowering The Military Draft Age
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a bill on April 2 lowering the age for military mobilization from 27 to 25 -- RFE/RL's @RadioSvobodaUkraine asked Ukrainians for their opinions on the newly approved law.
#ukrainewar #ukrainenews
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- Almost 16,000 Kazakhs Evacuated As Floods Wreak Havoc
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- Kazakhstan has been hit by major flooding with local emergencies declared across the Central Asian state. Almost 16,000 people have been evacuated and at least 1,400 homes flooded.
#kazakhstan #centralasia
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- A Drone Attack Deep Inside Russia Hit A Kamikaze Drone Factory
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- A drone hit a kamikaze drone factory in Russia's Tatarstan region, some 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, in what appears to be Kyiv's deepest strike within Russia since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
#ukrainenews #ukrainewar #russiaukrainewar
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- Could A Taliban Canal Project Start Water War In Central Asia?
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- The Taliban government in Afghanistan is pushing forward with the ambitious Qosh Tepa artificial river project amid concerns by neighboring Central Asian countries over possible damage to water security and farming.
#taliban #afghanistannews
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- No Room To Move: Jailed RFE/RL Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva Describes Russian Prison
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- A court in the Russian city of Kazan has ruled to extend the pretrial detention of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5. Appearing in court on April 1, Kurmasheva, a U.S. and Russian dual citizen, described the poor prison conditions and said her health has deteriorated.
#freealsu #russia #russianews
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- Father Of Moscow Attack Suspect Says Son Said He Was Coming Home
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- The father of the Moscow terror attack suspect says his son told the family two days before the shooting in Crocus City Hall that he was returning home to Tajikistan. Dalerjon Mirzoev is one of four Tajik men accused of carrying out the attack on March 22 in which 143 people were killed.
#russianews #russia
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- Romanians, Bulgarians React To Eased Schengen Travel
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Airline passengers in Romania and Bulgaria welcomed their countries' partial accession to the Schengen Area visa-free travel zone. Document checks remain on their land borders, though. "This is a historic moment," one traveler told reporters at Bucharest airport, and the same positive mood prevailed at the airport in Sofia.
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- Ambassadors To Russia Honor Crocus Massacre Victims
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- Diplomats accredited in Russia laid flowers and toys at the site of the Crocus City Hall terror attack in Krasnogorsk. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy and envoys from other countries that Russia labels as "unfriendly" were among the dozens of diplomats joining the ceremony on March 30.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-ambassadors-terror/32885189.html
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- Two Years Later, Massacre Of Ukrainian Civilians In Bucha Is 'Impossible To Forget'
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- In the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces took the city of Bucha and killed hundreds of civilians. The troops withdrew on March 31, 2022. Residents of Bucha are still working to identify the victims and pushing for the atrocities to be recognized as war crimes.
#russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #bucha #ukraine #russia
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- Navalny's Battle Against Putin Depicted In New Swedish Play "Navalny: The Trial"
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- "Navalny: The Trial" by the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm brings the late Kremlin critic's battle against Russian President Vladimir Putin to the stage. The play is based on what is widely seen as a politically motivated court case that ended with Navalny in prison, where he died in February.