Zelensky says Ukraine has completed repairs on Druzhba pipeline, which carries Russian oil to Europe

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 21 that specialists had completed repairs on a section of the Druzhba pipeline that Kyiv says was damaged in a Russian military strike.

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Russian man fined for posting photo of cat that resembles Hitler

A district court in Sochi has fined a local resident 1,000 rubles on an administrative charge of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. The case was flagged by the independent Russian news outlet Verstka and the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona.

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Report: Russian authorities search homes of Eksmo publishing executives, detain CEO

Russian law enforcement officers in Moscow searched the homes of executives at the publishing house Eksmo, the pro-Kremlin TV channel REN TV reported, without citing a source.

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Report: Russia opens negligence case after pacifist blogger is found hanged in prison solitary confinement cell

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Report: Russia opens negligence case after pacifist blogger is found hanged in prison solitary confinement cell

Russian authorities have opened a criminal case on charges of negligence following the death of pacifist blogger Vegan Khristolub Bozhiy at a prison in the Voronezh region. He was found hanged in a solitary confinement cell, a person who knew the blogger told the Telegram news channel SotaVision and the Russian Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti.

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Biographies of Bulgakov and Vysotsky to be labeled under Russia’s drug ‘promotion’ law

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Biographies of Bulgakov and Vysotsky to be labeled under Russia’s drug ‘promotion’ law

Biographical books about poet Vladimir Vysotsky and writer Mikhail Bulgakov are to be labeled under Russia’s law banning drug “propaganda,” the Russian state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS reported.

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Former Ura.ru editor sentenced to 5 years in prison for buying police reports from his uncle

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Former Ura.ru editor sentenced to 5 years in prison for buying police reports from his uncle

A court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Denis Allayarov, a former editor at the news agency Ura.ru, to five years in prison on a bribery charge, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.

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Chief conductor of St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra dies after falling ill on flight to Istanbul

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Chief conductor of St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra dies after falling ill on flight to Istanbul

Sergei Stadler, the chief conductor and artistic director of the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, died on April 20 at the age of 63, the Russian news outlet Fontanka reported, citing the press service of the St. Petersburg governor.

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Putin signs decree letting importers defer VAT payments for up to 3 months

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree launching a pilot program that lets companies importing goods into Russia defer paying the value-added tax collected by customs authorities. The program runs until June 30, 2027.

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Ukrainian prankster infiltrates Russian Industry and Trade Ministry drone meeting, hears official say 90% of electrical components are foreign

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Ukrainian prankster infiltrates Russian Industry and Trade Ministry drone meeting, hears official say 90% of electrical components are foreign

A Ukrainian prankster infiltrated a private Russian Industry and Trade Ministry meeting held by video conference. Yevhen Volnov published the video on April 17; the Telegram channel Astra drew attention to it and identified several of the participants.

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Moscow court fines Russian rapper Morgenshtern on ‘foreign agent’ charges

A Moscow court has sentenced rapper Alisher Morgenshtern in absentia to a seven-million-ruble fine on criminal charges of failing to comply with his obligations as a designated foreign agent, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.

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