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Buryatia, a Russian republic in east Siberia, in November became the first region to adopt laws reinstating a “kill-shelter” approach to controlling the population of stray dogs after President Vladimir Putin signed a law giving regional heads authority to deal with the issue independently.
A new law passed in Russia permits regions the authority to create their own strategies for handling stray animal populations, including mass euthanasia.
As the head of the Kot i Pyos (“Cat and Dog”) charity in the Far East republic of Buryatia, Natalya Filippova takes care of about 500 animals. "We recently had a puppy fall sick; his kidneys were failing.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Vladimir Putin regime has been increasingly compared to Hitler’s Nazi Germany. At the end of last year, the Russian television channel Dozhd (now based in the Netherlands and known as “TV Rain”) released a long two-part documentary about the similarities in propaganda, aesthetics and the formation of the Putin regime …