Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore (novayagazeta.eu)
Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe (novayagazeta.eu)
Russian adult content provider forced to entrap gay men online by Dagestan police (novayagazeta.eu)
A Russian male adult content provider was detained in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the second time in two weeks on Wednesday after reportedly being forced to entrap gay men online by the republic’s police....
Fire at Volgograd oil refinery as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s energy sector intensify (novayagazeta.eu)
Garry Kasparov added to Russia’s list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ (novayagazeta.eu)
cross-posted from: startrek.website/post/7731448...
Prominent Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza moved to prison with harsher conditions (novayagazeta.eu)
Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a new prison facility with considerably harsher conditions, Novaya Gazeta reported on Tuesday....
Chinese foreign minister’s mysterious fall from grace: Qin Gang, China’s ousted top diplomat, has not been seen in public for over a month (novayagazeta.eu)
On 25 July, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was removed from his position and replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi. No official reason is provided by Chinese authorities for the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress’s decision to replace Qin following his vague, “health-related” absence from his official...
Total, Raiffeisen, Pepsi & Co: Profits of Western businesses that decided to stay in Russia have skyrocketed (novayagazeta.eu)
Many foreign companies released statements about leaving Russia soon after the invasion of Ukraine. Almost a year and a half later, it can be stated that only a small part of foreign companies left Russia. According to calculations made by the Kyiv School of Economics, only 7% of Western companies halted all operations in...
