While formally designed to fight crime, Russia’s facial recognition system has been more effective in identifying anti-war activists and draft dodgers, surveillance experts told the outlet, adding that the authorities maintain unpredictability in carrying out surveillance-related arrests to instill fear and uncertainty in the...
"A conflict arose between people demanding water supplies to their homes and drivers outraged by [a] blocked highway,” said Dagestan’s branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry.
Ksenia Fadeyeva, 31, is a former municipal deputy in the Siberian city of Tomsk and was added to Russia’s “terrorist” list in January 2022.
As Russia’s crackdown on dissenters has intensified, so too have the ripple effects on the family members of Kremlin critics, who are often not involved in politics themselves.
The weekend summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was attended by delegations from more than 40 countries. Among them were representatives from Ukraine’s allies in Europe and the United States, as well as from India and Brazil. Even Beijing, which initially did not intend to participate and which the Kremlin counts as its most...
While Russia has historically maintained a liberal abortion policy, the conservative turn among the country’s leadership, combined with a push from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Russian drones on Wednesday damaged infrastructure at a Ukrainian port on the Danube near Romania, as Moscow targeted facilities vital for grain shipments from Ukraine following the collapse of a key export arrangement.
A total of 1.4 million drugs that induce abortions and 2.2 million emergency contraception drugs were sold in Russia last year, marking a 60% and 53% increase from 2021, respectively. Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and the Western sanctions along with the population’s falling income levels and the mobilization of young men...
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