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Russia launched a criminal investigation into CNN correspondent Nick Walsh and Ukrainian journalists Diana Butsko and Olesia Borovyk on the grounds of an "illegal border crossing" while reporting on Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Oblast, the state-owned news agency TASS reported on Aug. 22. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) also said it would put out an international warrant for their arrest. The journalists reported from the Russian town of Sudzha, which is now controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces following Ukraine’s incursion in Kursk Oblast. Butsko told her outlet, Hromadske, that...
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The United States Justice Department (DOJ) has opened an investigation into U.S. citizens working with Russian state news outlets, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Aug. 21, citing officials briefed on the investigation. The investigation aims to mitigate the Kremlin's interference in the November presidential election, according to the NYT. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this month searched the homes of two prominent commentators, Scott Ritter, a former U.N. weapons inspector, and Dimitri Simes, an adviser to former President Donald Trump. Prosecutors have not brought charg...
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Organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games allegedly removed press accreditations for four journalists from Russia's state-run TASS news agency, the outlet reported on July 28. Olympic organizers have yet to comment on the alleged incident, according to Reuters,gave%20Moscow%20no%20further%20explanation.). France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also declined to comment on the decision to revoke accreditation, stating that the decision lies with Olympic organizers. Ahead of the start of the Games, dozens of accreditation applications for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris were previously rejec...
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Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
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President Volodymyr Zelensky does not have plans to be interviewed by U.S. far-right political commentator Tucker Carlson, said Presidential Office spokesperson Serhii Nykyforov on July 4. Nykyforov responded sarcastically to Carlson's earlier announcement, saying that the commentator should "more carefully check his sources in the FSB (Russia's Federal Security Service)." Earlier in the day, Carlson said, "It looks like we've got the Zelensky interview," adding that it is "coming soon, we hope." The announcement follows a controversial interview that Carlson held with Russian President Vladim...
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Republican Congressman Jim Banks sent letters in recent days to a number of high-profile figures in the U.S. far-right, saying that they had been added to a Ukrainian NGO's list of individuals and groups "in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine." Banks, who is running for Senate in Indiana, said that "other Ukrainian NGOs have published similar lists, which have published the personal information of those named in apparent attempts to intimidate them." The congressman alleged that Texty, the NGO in question, previously worked with the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Dev...
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