Farida Kurbangaleeva
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Five days after the vote, FSB arrests leading election expert (opens the original)
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Aleksandr Kynev, who is considered one of Russia’s leading experts on election processes, faces up to 20 years in prison. The detention comes only few days after the State Duma election. The Perovsky District Court in Moscow has remanded political scientist Aleksandr Kynev in pre-trial detention on charges of illegal drug trafficking. He is accused of the illegal production, sale or distribution of drugs on a large scale. The offence carries a sentence of between 10 and 20 years in prison. The p
Doctor, 74, volunteers for war as Northern Russia loses medical staff (opens the original)
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Physicians from the city hospital of Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region, regularly head to the front. Meanwhile, local residents complain about staff shortages and the quality of medical care. Sergei Khabarov, head of the intensive care department at Kotlas City Hospital, has gone to the “special military operation” and joined a volunteer medical unit. Ahead of his departure, the former head physician of the hospital, Khizri Ilyasov, published a photograph of the two men together. On his social media pa
Pikene på Broen designated ‘undesirable’ in Russia (opens the original)
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The Kirkenes-based organisation works to promote contemporary art and cross-border cooperation in the North. Norwegian cultural organisation Pikene på Broen has been added to Russia’s register of “undesirable” organisations by the Russian Ministry of Justice, which accused it of posing a threat to “the foundations of Russia’s constitutional order and security” – a standard formulation used for such designations. The status effectively bans the organisation from operating in Russia, while its ass
Karelia’s 'Yabloko' candidates to run on demand for indigenous language rights (opens the original)
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The region is the only national republic in Russia where the indigenous language does not have official status, despite local activists pushing for this change since at least 1991. Meanwhile, the Karelian language itself is on the brink of extinction. Single-mandate candidates from Yabloko (whose federal party list was disqualified from the elections) will run for the Karelian Legislative Assembly with a platform advocating for the granting official status to the Karelian language, according to
Head of Nenets Autonomous Okrug boasts to Putin that one in ten residents has gone to war (opens the original)
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The Nenets Autonomous Okrug is one of Russia’s least populated regions. Its indigenous peoples include the Nenets and Komi. Governor Irina Gekht briefed Vladimir Putin on the socio-economic development of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and thanked him for a decree marking the region’s centenary. She said the decree had sparked “a wave of enthusiasm among residents – from reindeer herders to oil workers.” Gekht then turned to support for participants in what the Kremlin calls the “special military o
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