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The Telegram social media platform has blocked the Utro Daghestan channel, days after an angry mob shouting anti-Semitic slogans stormed the airport in the Daghestani capital, Makhachkala.
A blast that killed 46 miners has left a global steel giant and its host government desperate to part ways as soon as possible. But it has also left many Kazakhs unsure which party is more to blame for an investment project where industrial accidents and awful pollution became normalized over time.
Authorities in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, have shut down the Knihazbor independent publishing house, the organization's director Henadz Vinyarski said on Facebook on October 29, amid an ongoing crackdown on media freedoms.
The United States has condemned a violent anti-Semitic event at an airport in Russia's predominantly Muslim region of Daghestan in which a mob overran the airport and threatened an aircraft arriving from Tel Aviv.
A mob of hundreds of people shouting anti-Jewish epithets stormed and shut down the airport in the Russian city of Makhachkala in the predominantly Muslim region of Daghestan after a flight arrived from Tel Aviv on October 29.
Russians throughout the country on October 29 commemorated the victims of Soviet repression with an annual event organized by the Memorial human rights group, which itself was banned and shut down by the increasingly repressive government of President Vladimir Putin.
The Hamas militant group -- which is holding more than 200 hostages seized in its October 7 attack on Israel -- is attempting to locate eight Russian-Israeli dual citizens following a request from Moscow to free them, Russian news agencies reported on October 28.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been placed in punitive solitary confinement, a day after his allies said he was stripped of writing materials -- his only means of communicating with the outside world.
Russia's Justice Ministry has added former Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Kunadze, editor in chief of the independent Dovod news website Ilya Kosygin, and political scientist Mikhail Savva to its list of so-called foreign agents, a ministry statement says.
Ukrainian tank crews are rolling into battle with the Swedish version of the German Leopard 2 tank. Current Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda visited Ukrainian troops near the front line who say Russian forces fear the tank's high-precision, armor-piercing shells.
Former Russian Archdeacon Andrei Kurayev, who lost his rank in April over his calls for an end to the invasion of Ukraine, wrote on Telegram on October 16 that he left Russia for the Czech Republic.
Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is "creating chaos wherever he can." Speaking at RFE/RL's headquarters in Prague on October 13, Khodorkovsky said fighting between Israel and Hamas has helped Putin by taking attention away from Ukraine.
While Russia and Ukraine fight a brutal war, citizens of both countries are serving in on the same side in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the EU and the United States.
Aleksandr Fedulov, a lawyer of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has fled Russia after three other lawyers who defended the Kremlin critic were arrested last week.
The Russian Interior Ministry on October 16 added self-exiled former Russian lawyer Mark Feigin, who has defended noted Russian and Ukrainian activists, to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
A Ukrainian woman whose brother, husband, and mother were all killed in Mariupol at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion says she copes with her grief by focusing on her children. Tetyana Lastovych was eight months' pregnant when she found out her husband was killed in action.
A Russian-born émigré tells Current Time how her family hid in a safe room as gunmen searched their home in Israel. Maria Ballach moved to Israel 20 years ago and is a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, an Israeli village near the border with Gaza. She says she could hear the attackers talking.
Noted Turkmen blogger and stand-up comic Muhammed Mammedov has been reportedly beaten to death in Ashgabat after returning from a long stay in Turkey.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya region, has said that a Russian presidential election due next March should either be postponed because of the war in Ukraine or limited to President Vladimir Putin.
Several Russian schools were tricked into sending birthday greetings to President Vladimir Putin bearing a photograph and quotes of a World War II-era Ukrainian partisan leader who has been vilified by the Kremlin.
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