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Media: Hundreds of Russians found in DPR prisons
In the prisons, penal colonies and pre-trial detention centers in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), there are hundreds of Russians who took part in the armed conflict in the Donbas on the militia’s side, according to an article in Novaya Gazeta.
The news outlet cites various estimates of the number of Russian citizens being held in prisons. A DPR armed forces officer told Novaya that in four years, more than 480 Russians have been arrested. Some of them are even charged with …
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German lawyer: defendant in ‘cocaine case’ was extradited to Russia prematurely
On July 31, Alexander Hamburg, the German lawyer for Russian businessman Andrey Kovalchuk told DW that his client was extradited from Germany to Russia before they were able to appeal the court’s decision. The Russian investigators accuse Kovalchuk, who had been living in Germany, of organizing an operation to smuggle cocaine from Argentina to Moscow. On Monday, July 30, as soon as he arrived in Russia, Kovalchuk received his indictment.
The request of Russian law enforcement for Kovalchuk’s …
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Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic planned to film gold mines
The Russian journalists who died in Central African Republic (CAR), on the day of the assassination were attempting to arrange the filming of the gold mine, which the company established by Yevgeny Prigozhin supposedly plans to develop, the Dozhd television channel (also known as TV Rain) reported citing information from the Investigations Management Centre (IMC) for which journalists collected information about Russian military mercenaries.
Before the murder, the journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, …
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Russia prohibits priest from visiting imprisoned filmmaker Sentsov
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbas issue, Iryna Herashchenko reported that a priest was not allowed to visit the convicted filmmaker Oleh Sentsov in Russia, who is on the 79th day of his hunger strike in prison. Herashchenko added that she "tried to give Oleh a letter."
“I have never received any reply to dozens of my letters, which I sent, delivered, handed through lawyers and …
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Russia threatens to respond to EU sanctions against the builders of Crimean Bridge
European companies working in Russia may be affected by the sanctions of the European Union imposed against the Russian companies involved in the construction of the Bridge to the Crimea, said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement published on the Ministry's website.
The Ministry stressed that the "free choice of Crimean residents in favor of accession to Russia is troubling the European Union.” The Ministry told Brussels that since 2016, the European sanctions lists have …