The administration of the Russian president gave new instructions to the state and pro-government Russian media, asking them not to publish news about the crimes of Russians who returned from the war in Ukraine - in particular, this concerns mercenaries and pardoned prisoners.
Andrey Shalaev, the founder of the Russian Bessmertnyi Barak (Immortal Barracks) project on victims of political repression, disappeared after he was detained in Tver on 19 October. Source: Meduza, the Russian Latvia-based media outlet, citing the Bessmertnyiy Barak project and OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights media project Details: Shalaev told OVD-Info that he was detained at a train station in Tver while waiting for a train in a café on 19 October.
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has said that the nuclear weapons on the territory of the former USSR were created by an ineffable "divine providence" in the monastery of St Seraphim and have allowed Russia to remain free and independent.
Two men were fined for publicly listening to the song Good Evening, We Are From Ukraine in Crimea. Source: Russian human rights media project OVD-Info; Meduza, a Latvia-based Russian independent news outlet Details: The Russian-controlled Leninsky District Court of Crimea fined Lenur Khalilov and Dmytro Kamyshantsev 40,000 roubles (about US$4,000) each under the article on discrediting the Russian army.
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