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The leader of the forest, Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday said the rebel leader in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don province, Igor Prigozhin, is in the Russian city of St Petersburg. “He is a free man…But what will happen later?” Lukashenko asked. The Russian mercenary force Wagner has withdrawn from Rostov-on-Don after Lukashenko’s intervention last month in a mutiny led by Prigozhin.
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Russia hawks demand harsher punishments for dissent in the wake of the death of a well-known blogger
A video of Russian blogger Sergei Tatarsky, who was killed in an explosion in St Petersburg last week, has surfaced online. The video shows Tatarsky being pushed out of the way by security personnel before he falls on the ground. Tatarsky’s death has sparked criticism of the Russian authorities and demands for the return of…
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The cafe explosion in St. Peterkills a Russian military blogger
A Russian military blogger was killed in an explosion at a cafe in Russia’s second-largest city of St Petersburg on Sunday. Russian officials said that Vladlen Tatarsky was killed as he was leading a discussion at the cafe on the Neva River in the historic heart of St Petersburg. Tatarsky was pro-war but he was…