Orlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
They are accused of working on active operations in the UK and Europe and collecting and passing information to the Russian state.
Officers who searched properties in London and Norfolk occupied by three of the defendants - Mr Roussev, Mr Dzhambazov, 41, and Ms Ivanova, 31 - found allegedly fake passport and official identity documents for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Czech Republic.
The group are also accused of organising a surveillance operation in Montenegro which involved the creation of fake identification cards for journalists, including one in the image of Ms Ivanova.
Mr Roussev, whose most recent address is a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, also states he once acted as an adviser to the Bulgarian ministry of energy.
The pair, who moved to the UK around a decade ago, ran a community organisation providing services to Bulgarian people, including familiarising them with the “culture and norms of British society”.
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These frenzies - where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to some topics - are evidenced by interviews with former staffers, app users and BBC analysis of wider social media data.
While Olivia was an experienced social video creator, frenzies can also draw in people who seem never to have posted content like this before - and reward them with huge numbers of views.
During the school protests, I decided to see what type of content TikTok’s algorithm might recommend to an undercover account pretending to belong to a 15-year-old boy with typical interests, such as football.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Markovac said he encourages young people to “rebel against ridiculous rules”, but he said he could not be held responsible for the poor decisions of a minority of viewers.
Several former TikTok employees in the US and UK told the BBC that limiting these frenzies of harmful content was not a priority for the social media company, because it could slow down the app’s meteoric growth.
TikTok told the BBC it has more than 40,000 “safety professionals” using technology to moderate content, with the “vast majority” of videos with harmful misinformation never receiving a single view.
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You make it sound like a easy task… They are getting killed and put in prison. Iran’s regime had build very effective fortifications for these types of protests and unrest. They know how to crack down on it, they do it by being as brutal as possible. The sad truth is that if not big portions of the population stands against the regime nothing will change. And unfortunately it’s not enough what has happened to date.
The biggest issue with the regime falling is that we will see a new Libya. I don’t think it will become better if the regime is removed unfortunately.
Iran’s parliament has passed controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls who break its strict dress code.
Women burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the nationwide demonstrations against the clerical establishment, during which hundreds of people were reportedly killed in a crackdown by security forces.
A growing number of women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public altogether as the unrest has subsided, despite the return of the morality police to the streets and the installation of surveillance cameras.
Under Iranian law, which is based on the country’s interpretation of Sharia, women and girls above the age of puberty must cover their hair with a hijab and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.
On Wednesday, members of parliament voted by 152 to 34 to pass the “Hijab and Chastity Bill”, which says people who are caught dressed “inappropriately” in public places will be subject to a “fourth degree” punishment.
Earlier this month, eight independent UN human rights experts warned the bill “could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission”.
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good, fucking skinheads are stupid. however, what prevents people from distributing music? VPNs make it trivial to bypass any region locks, and Germany has a lot of borders, it’d be very easy to smuggle in just about anything.
47% opposed, 47% in favour, including 10% of AfD voters (that makes sense when you consider protest votes… yes they’re idiots but not terminally so). Opposed also includes “we should deal with them in other ways”, i.e. naive liberals.
But that doesn’t matter as ultimately the constitutional court will have to decide, and I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’s almost guaranteed they’ll outlaw. Before that happens, though, either the government, Bundestag or Bundesrat will have to actually start the proceedings. That very much is a political decision.
Poor little tankie, trying to lash out. Maybe you should take out your frustration by going to the front line of the Ukraine invasion. You’ll actually increase the average IQ of the world when your brains are splattered in a ditch.
Putin invaded Ukraine by himself, and the rest of the civilized world is against it. Not really a surprise that the US is also against Russia’s constant land grabs.
Putin invaded Ukraine by himself, and the rest of the civilized world is against it.
You sound like a true white fascist with the “civilised world” phrase. You also practice Hitler’s Big Lie, flipping the entire history of colonialist expansion.
Nice deflection to the point that Putin’s Russia is the only one behind Ukraine’s invasion, with many nations opposing the clear and unprompted invasion. No counterpoint to that?
We can follow up to 2003 Orange protests sponsored by CIA. Then we can see the 2014 Euromaidan coup by CIA to overthrow the democratically elected Yanukovich, and the leaked phone call between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt proving the same.
I think Russia is not doing enough to curbstomp NATO’s Nazi fetishes out of existence. They need to do a lot more.
History and context is whataboutism? Go wear a red nose and roam on the streets, they will give you good money for this BS. Its funny how you were extracting “counterpoint” a while ago, while claiming you fascists are “civilised world” people, implying all Russia supporters are subhuman hordes.
All I see is someone loudly proclaiming that they believe it is fine when their team commits atrocities, and that they can’t realize they’re spouting conspiracy theories.
Do you call historical context and facts things like whataboutism and conspiracy theories IRL, or is it just deranged “freedom” behaviour behind the keyboard? It is not Russia, but people like you, who have destroyed your western world, because you people never understood freedom comes with responsibility and consequences.
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