The blast in St. Petersburg that killed military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was orchestrated by Ukraine, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) said on Monday. It described the murder as “a terrorist attack.” Tatarsky, whose real name was Maksim Fomin, was hosting a live event with his followers in a café in …
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An explosion that rocked the ‘Street Bar’ café in St. Petersburg, Russia on Sunday has claimed at least one life and left 19 people injured, authorities have reported. Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maksim Fomin), a military correspondent and blogger, was killed in the incident, according to emergency services. Tatarsky joined the Donbass militias …
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A blogger, with tens of thousands of subscribers, has said she is being probed in Germany over her coverage of the Ukraine conflict. German media confirmed the activist is the subject of an investigation by a local prosecutor’s office. In an interview aired on Friday on Russia’s Channel One, Alina …
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Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira was last heard from in Ukraine almost a week ago. He was reporting from the Ukrainian city of Kharkov and has been a critic of President Volodymyr Zelensky and of Ukraine’s conduct during the conflict. The Chilean foreign ministry said that it was aware that “those …
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Last month, Ruslan Bobiev (whose real name is Ruslani Murojonzod) and Asya Akimova (Anastasia Chistova) published photos on social media taken by the iconic Red Square cathedral. The most controversial snap saw Akimova on her knees, simulating oral sex while wearing a police jacket. The two were later detained, accused …
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Ruslan Bobiev, a blogger from Tajikistan, released a video on Thursday saying he “apologizes” for the stunt and “will never do it again.” The pictures, posted to his now-deactivated Instagram page, showed him posing in front of the domed St. Basil’s Cathedral, a major landmark in central Moscow. In the …
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A court in the south coast resort ruled on Friday that the 27-year-old driver would be remanded in custody for five days over the incident. In a clip posted to Instagram, St. Petersburg-based blogger Denis Myasnikov broadcast the stunt to his 800,000 followers, with footage from inside the car seeing …
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In a video posted in June and viewed more than 3.6 million times, Chaheti Bansal, a 27-year-old food blogger, called on people to “cancel the word curry.” The Californian explained that curry is an “umbrella term popularized by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of …
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The young Milana Makhanets has almost seven million followers on Singaporean video-sharing app Likee, a TikTok analog popular with young Russian and Ukrainian kids. Milana also works as a model, often participating in children’s fashion shows. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Мила Маханец 🌺ᗰนᏁåℍᎯ🌺 (@milamaxanets) On …
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Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shary argues that the office of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky ordered his murder. The allegations he made in a new video on YouTube. In the video, Shary showed a sheet of paper with handwritten text, which, he claims, handed over to the Spanish police. “In …
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