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From the Republics | Attacks in Dagestan Will Marginalize and Endanger Russia’s Muslims. Further.
By Leyla Latypova

“Russia is different now,” shrugged Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov when journalists asked him whether Sunday’s deadly events in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan signal that the country is sliding back into the 2000s, a time marked in Russians’ collective memory by terrorist attacks including the 2002 Nord-Ost hostage crisis and the 2004 Beslan school siege. 

“Society is strongly consolidated and criminal terrorist acts like the one we saw in Dagestan yesterday are not supported by society in Russia or Dagestan,” Peskov added.

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A Viral Telegram Game Promises Russian Users Crypto Coins for Clicks. What’s the Catch?

Clicker Telegram mini-games, where players generate virtual currency by tapping their phone screens, have gone viral on the Russian-speaking internet. 

The largest of these, Hamster Kombat, claims to have amassed 200 million users in just a few weeks and runs the world’s largest Telegram channel. Its growing popularity has sparked concerns from both Russian and Ukrainian authorities.

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Kremlin Says Unable to Confirm Reports of U.S. Drone Downed Over Black Sea

Authorities in Moscow said 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 bloggers claimed 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.

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Opinion | To Build a Democratic Russia, We Must Stop Kidding Ourselves About Yeltsin
By Vasily Zharkov

A change has begun in the Russian democratic opposition as a new generation comes to terms with how the catastrophic betrayals of the 1990s define Russia’s present. Open dialogue about this era, long taboo, is essential for any hope of establishing the freedom and justice that were within reach but never appeared after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Russia Blocks Dozens of EU Media Outlets in ‘Retaliatory Move’

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 Ministry announced Tuesday. 

Brussels suspended 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.

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Russia’s First Transgender Politician Says Detransitioned Due to Threats



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.

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International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Shoigu, Gerasimov

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov for alleged war crimes committed during the invasion of Ukraine.

The Hague-based court said the two men “bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure” from October 2022 to March 2023, when Shoigu was defense minister.

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Russia’s Dagestan to Inspect Local Officials After Attacks on Religious Sites

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.

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Indian PM Modi to Visit Russia in July – Reports

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.

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Elderly Woman Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Western Russia, Officials Say

Overnight drone attacks against southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region have left at least one person dead and scores of buildings and vehicles damaged, regional officials said early Tuesday.

“An elderly woman died as a result of a direct hit to a home,” Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram, adding that four others were injured in the overnight strikes.

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2 Killed Fire at U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Electronics Research Building

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 Vorobyov said 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.”

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EU Sanctions Russian Pro-War Pop Star Shaman

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.

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Russian Strike in Eastern Ukraine Kills 4, Wounds 34

A Russian strike on the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk killed four people and wounded dozens more on Monday, the governor of the Donetsk region said.

"Among the wounded are two children aged 12 and 13. They are in a moderate to serious condition," Donetsk region Governor Vadym Filashkin said.

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Arts and Life | From Soviet Past to Russia's Present: Artist Otdelnov Faces Down His Native City's Ghosts in New Exhibition

In his latest exhibition, award-winning artist Pavel Otdelnov casts an exile’s jaded eye on his birthplace and uncovers the lives of those who have worked and of those who remain working in Dzerzhinsk — a Soviet city built on sand, once a chemical capital and now one of Russia’s largest munitions hubs.

Born in Dzerzhinsk, he made London his home in 2022 after he left Russia in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.

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Bank of China Halts Payments With Sanctioned Russian Lenders – Kommersant

The Russian division of the Bank of China has suspended operations with Russian lenders sanctioned by the United States in order to avoid being hit with secondary sanctions, the Kommersant business newspaper reported Monday, citing industry insiders.

The Bank of China’s Russian division  — which specializes in yuan payments between Russia and China — is the second-largest Chinese banking subsidiary in the country with 592.4 billion rubles ($6.7 billion) in assets as of spring 2024, according to Kommersant.

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Kremlin Warns U.S. of 'Consequences' After Deadly Crimea Strike

Authorities in Moscow on Monday warned Washington that it would face "consequences" following a deadly Ukrainian strike on annexed Crimea that was said to have been carried out with U.S.-supplied long-range missiles.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Sunday's strike on the city of Sevastopol "barbaric" and accused the United States of "killing Russian children." Among the four people killed in the attack were two minors.

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Bashkir Activist Alsynov Beaten in Jail, Lawyer Says

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 lawyer said 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.

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What We Know About the Church and Synagogue Attacks in Dagestan

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.

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Police in Moscow-Backed Abkhazia Launch Manhunt After Border Shooting

Law enforcement authorities in the breakaway Georgian territory of Abkhazia have launched a search for gunmen behind a deadly shootout on the region’s border with Russia, state media reported late Sunday.

At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in the shooting near the Russian-Abkhaz border on Sunday afternoon, around the same time as separate deadly attacks in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan. It was not immediately clear whether the incidents were connected.

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Several Killed as Orthodox Church and Synagogue Attacked in Russia's Dagestan

Unknown assailants have attacked an Orthodox church and synagogue in the majority Muslim republic of Dagestan, state media reported Sunday, killing at least two police officers, one priest and one security guard.

Attackers opened fire at the synagogue and church in the city of Derbent with automatic rifles at around 6:00 p.m. local time before driving away from the scene in a white Volkswagen Polo car, officials reported. 

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