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RUSSIA’S SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS LGBTQ

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/REUTERS) TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism on Thursday, the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and…

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RUSSIA People jailed, fined over rainbows Cases are first known penalties under ban of LGBTQ ‘movement’ By DASHA LITVINOVA The Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia — The first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ activism as extremism, Russian media and rights groups have reported, with at least three people who displayed rainbow-colored items receiving jail time or fines. The Supreme Court ruling in November banned what the government called the LGBTQ “movement” operating in Russia and labeled it as an extremist organization.

The ruling was part of a crackdown on LGBTQ people in the increasingly conservative country where “traditional family values” have become a cornerstone of President Vladimir Putin’s 24-year rule. Russian laws prohibit public displays of symbols of extremist organizations, and LGBTQ rights advocates have warned that those displaying rainbow-colored flags or other items might be targeted by the authorities. On Monday, a court in Saratov, a city 453 miles southeast of Moscow, handed a roughly $16 fine to artist and photographer Inna Mosina over several Instagram posts depicting rainbow flags, Russia’s independent news site Mediazona reported. The case contained the full text of the Supreme Court ruling, which named a rainbow flag the “international” symbol of the LGBTQ “movement.” Mosina and her defense team maintained her innocence, according to the reports. Mosina said the posts were published before the ruling, at a time when rainbow flags were not regarded by authorities as extremist, and her lawyer argued that a police report about her alleged wrongdoing was filed before the ruling took force. The court ordered her to pay the fine nonetheless. Last week, a court in Nizhny Novgorod, some 248 miles east of Moscow, ordered Anastasia Yershova to serve five days in jail on the same charge for wearing rainbow-colored earrings in public, Mediazona reported. In Volgograd, 559 miles south of Moscow, a court fined a man about $11 for allegedly posting a rainbow flag on social media, local court officials reported Thursday, identifying the man only as Artyom P. The crackdown on LGBTQ rights in Putin’s Russia has persisted for more than a decade.

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Desapareció el opositor ruso encarcelado Alexei Navalny: fue trasladado y se desconoce el nuevo lugar de reclusión

Los funcionarios de prisiones “se niegan a decir dónde lo trasladaron”, denunció la vocera del principal opositor político de Vladimir Putin Por Dasha Litvinova El paradero del líder opositor ruso Alexei Navalny se desconoce este lunes, ya que los funcionarios de la colonia penitenciaria donde cumplía condena comunicaron a uno de sus abogados que ya no figura en la lista de reclusos, informó la…

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Russia's central bank makes huge interest rate hike to try to prop up falling ruble

By DASHA LITVINOVA and DAVID McHUGH Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move designed to fight inflation and strengthen the ruble after the country’s currency reached its lowest value since early in the war with Ukraine. The ruble has lost more than a third of its…

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Putin profits from US and European reliance on Russian nuclear fuel

MARTHA MENDOZA and DASHA LITVINOVA, Yahoo News, 10 August 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and its European allies are importing vast amounts of nuclear fuel and compounds from Russia, providing Moscow with hundreds of millions of dollars in badly needed revenue as it wages war on Ukraine. The sales, which are legal and unsanctioned, have raised alarms from nonproliferation experts and elected…

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Surgeons Work by Flashlight as Ukraine Power Grid Battered : Inside US

Surgeons Work by Flashlight as Ukraine Power Grid Battered : Inside US

By YURAS KARMANAU, SAM MEDNICK and DASHA LITVINOVA, Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Oleh Duda, a cancer surgeon at a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, was in the middle of a complicated, dangerous surgery when he heard explosions nearby. Moments later, the lights went out. Duda had no choice but to keep working with only a headlamp for light. The lights came back when a generator kicked…

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1:07 about Dasha's childhood: she said there was nothing in her childhood that might be considered LGBT propaganda, except probably for the t.A.T.u. music band, still she was attracted only to the girls. She does not believe that some sort of content may change one's sexual orientation, anyway. One of the reasons why she decided to make her coming-out public, because she imagined herserf as a 13-14 years old, feeling attraction to other girls and how it could maybe help that girl to spend less time to realize and embrace the truth about themselves and not be afraid to become themselves, because of Daria's own experience.

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7:19 - skipped

8:00 about whether the day for her coming-out was chosen on purpose: it was a coincidence, they actually thought that the interview would be published a few days before, but something didn't work. Dasha felt relieved after this interview because finally she didn't need to worry about if her and Natasha are going to some places are too provocative, if those published photos are too revealing for their relationship.

8:54 was Natasha supportive of that decision: Natasha was supporting Dasha's decision, she herself has spent 10 years preparing herself for coming out, she said, eventually it was easier with Dasha, probably because she finally met her person, so she was not afraid after all that time.

9:36 how they met: Natasha did write to Dasha, congratulated her, Dasha responded, so they kept communicating that way, in the autumn Dasha arrived to Moscow, to see Natasha in the tournament. That was the moment. From then they knew they belong to each other. Dasha and Natasha both felt something towards each other, no matter if there's a law against them or not.

10:50 - How people reacted on the interview, where Daria came out: Yevgeny Kafelnikov thinks that Tartakova edited the interview and she set the girls up. Daria argued telling nothing was additionally edited in the interview, only Viktor and his team was editing the interview, Daria said that there were no questions that she was not prepared for. Daria just laughed when she heard Alexander Tikhonov's opinion. Biysultan Khamzayev said that Dasha's interview is a propaganda and she is going to commercialize it in the future, in order to get a citizenship. "That's the Judas lot" ("иудово племя"). Dasha's reaction: okay, so I can now open a direct message of any immigration agency and write here "hey, I fancy girls, give me a passport... pleeeease".

12:59 is Dasha afraid to return to Russia: Dasha is not afraid to return to Russia, though she is genually upset that Duma members consider someone saying truth about their personality as propaganda. She thinks she did nothing wrong, she just told the truth about herself.

13:49 about Zemfira's call and their friendship: Zemfira called her after Dasha's confession, she supported Dasha's decision. It was not the first time she called. Zemfira often visited Dasha's games, sitting, where relatives are sitting, together with Renata Litvinova. Their (Dasha and Zemfira's) friendship started through Anastasya Pavluchenkova, Zemfira asked her for Dasha's phone number to discuss Australian Open(?), where Medvedev was playing with Nadal and Zemfira was mostly the one talking during that call, asking different questions and replying herself. Zemfira had invited Dasha to her concert. Dasha had missed that opportunity and she is guessing that it will probably never happen in Moscow in the future, maybe in another country. Dasha wants to go to Zemfira's concert, especially with Zemfira older songs. Those are Dasha's favorite ones: "Прогулка", "Главное", "Прости меня, моя любовь", "Мачо" (Dasha has a strong association with Saint Petersburg when hearing this song, probably it is because Dasha was listening to this song when she first had arrived to St.Petersburg for tournament), "Мы разбиваемся", "Жди меня", "Жить в твоей голове".

20:20 peer pressure and wake-up calls: Dasha said that she felt wake-up calls about her orientation a long time ago (no specifics). But only recently she decided that there' only one life, and you need to live it like you want, no hidding, no pretending to be someone else, Natasha helped her with that, with Natasha Dasha finally felt to be ready for this change.

22:18 Dasha parent's reaction: Dasha's parents learned the truth about Dasha 2 years ago and was very supportive about it, her brother knew about it for the longer period of time, because they are brother and sister, after all. He was very supportive too. Dasha realise how lucky she is that the closest people in her life didn't reject her as it usually happens with LGBT members in Russia.

23:39 About LGBT community in Spain: He said very general things, nothing specific, he said that in time he just gotten used to it after many years on the road. Dasha's brother said he is not afraid of homophobia towards their parents, because they still live in Tolyatti.

25:56 Natasha about her own situation: Natasha's situation is more complicated, she didn't plan to tell anything to her mother, and once she did, her mother was not supportive at all, both her parents are more conservative. Natasha aknowledged the truth about her orientation 10-11 years ago. But she was trying to trick herself into believing that its just some stupid thoughts, and she is normal, she just never met a right person. She was struggling with these attempts a lot. She felt like she was trapped in the dark room with no doors, no windows, where the only thing to do is to jump on the walls. Note: Okay, it is maybe not so important but I found it cute, there's a moment where the three of them are drinking coffee in the kitchen and there's some beeping and Dasha suddenly jumps. Turns out, Dasha does not cook, Natasha do sometimes, Dasha's brother loves to cook and Dasha loves to eat :D

28:32 Natasha about her past engagement: According to Natasha, her ex-fiancee was asking her to put all her energy and her finances into his success, like her time is gone now, it is time for him to shine, so he was living on her finances all the time they were in relationship. She wanted to participate in some skating related shows and he didn't want that to happen.

32:01 About Ukraine and February, 24: Dasha has a lot of friends who either was born/lives in Ukraine or/and have relatives here, she was shocked when she learned the first news, she hoped it would end very fast, and she was terrified by how the events went on after these first news. She thinks that day was the worst since many years before. She is appalled by how Russian people in their Stories, etc are publishing some happy times, she considers them finished people.

34:34 If people need to speak up about "special operation": Dasha is not blaiming people who are silent about the events, she understands that those people in Russia have reasons for that silence. She thinks that everyone deserves their right either to tell what they think or not.

36:48 - About the playing under neutral colors: It was humilating, Dasha didn't like how it was organized, some bag-shaped costumes of the same size for all of them, with their country colors taped, so they would be hidden, while other costumes were all colourful and of many variations.

39:08 Collective responsibility: Dasha thinks that national teams ban is the correct decision because those teams are connected with the government and are run by the state, but she can not tell the same about sportsmen individuals, like her. She partially accepts that decision, but not completely. She said her country took away her dream, she does not think she could ever play under Russian flag anymore. And that was her dream. She learned Russian anthem when she went to school with a dream. There's a one type of tounrment called Roland Garros, where when the sportsman wons their country's flag would be hoisted and their country's anthem would be playing. That what she was dreaming about. It will never happen.

41:56 About "Eсть тема" TV-show issue: After Dasha's interview a very humilating episode of the "Есть тема" TV-show was aired. Sofia Tartakova strongly advised Dasha not to watch it and announced very harsh comments on this show after what she was removed from another show, where she was a host airing on the same channel. Dasha thinks that after that issue tennisists would stop visiting this show at all, because in the past it was only because they had good relations with Sofia.

46:14 Dasha is calling to Sofia: Sofia had no doubt in Daria, she completely supports Daria's decision. Sofia also noticed that one of the comments on Daria's interview was from Adidas, while many Russian sportsmen were losing their international contracts, it was their official support of Dasha.

48:13 About Adidas decision: after Dasha's official coming out Adidas decided to bring back some very important commercials with Dasha which were recorded prior the "special operation" and Adidas at first decided not to use it as it was done for other Russian sportsmen, but after the interview they changed their mind for Dasha's piece.

52:08 About politics and sport in Russia: Dasha is very sorry for Kamilla Valieva who was supposed to have a potential for many medals. Dasha thinks that she was lucky to keep playing, and Kamilla has suffered most because of the government recent decisions.

54:03 About religion: Love will save the world: Dasha still believe in these words, according to her and Natasha, love still have potential, even though with each year it is harder to believe in this.

56:30 Her first big money: It was the third round(?) of the US Open. Dasha got upset that she had to pay 30% tax.Before the tax it was 100k-130k. Dasha has saved the money, left after taxes and she is still very careful with money. She only spends money for the people who she loves, she bought a new car for her mom a few years ago. She also once bought Chanel bag and then decided it is not her cup of tea. She was mostly happy she could afford such things. She also bought a flat for herself in Dubai. In 2018 year, which was the most successful for Dasha, she spent 600k for her team, her brother's salary, all required logistics, etc. About 100 people are really getting money for tennis in our country.

1:01:07 - How Andrey became a trainer: Andrey became a trainer after graduating as a lawyer, they were running some healthcare study group aside from his normal working schedule, plus, he was helping Dasha with all her logistic activities and training routine. So at some point he decided that it is time to become a professional trainer for his sister.

1:02:30 - About Tolyatti: this city lacks of sunlight and one of the worst parts of being a tennis player from Russia, because of the bad climate you always training inside while almost all tournaments are taking place outside, Russian sportsmen suffer from this difference a lot, as for Tolyatti or any other city aside from Moscow and St.Petersburg, the logistics are always painful, you always need to spend at least a day in transfer flights, through Moscow.

1:04:45 - How the country supports young sportsmen, what does it cost to raise a sportmen: If you started your training from 7 years, you will need someone to help and guide you before any government support would be there. Dasha told that her parents had to sell their house so she could keep going. According to Dasha, you need to spend at least 50k so your 15 years old child could visit all important tournaments and traninings. It is very expensive to go from Russia anywhere to Europe. In 2018 before Dasha got her first big money, her parents confessed they have almost nothing, her brother was going to sell his own flat for Dasha's carier.

1:14:18 - About Russian Tennis Federation: Dasha said that it was 10 on 90% between how much financial support she got from the federation in comparison to how much her parents has paid. Dasha thinks that Federation must become younger.

1:18:20 - Why Dasha almost stopped playing: When she was playing in 2019(?) with very bad results her ex-trainer said the words that almost destroyed her, he said that he couldn't pull her mentally anymore, so maybe she should try something else. If the Devil made an offer to Dasha, whether to have a few years of absolute success in tennis, to become a legend, or to spend her whole life with Natasha happily with nothing great in tennis, Dasha would have picked the second option, she does not want to end as Maradona.

1:28:14 Natasha is giving advice for LGBT people in Russia: She has adviced to be open about your nature, those people who really love you, they will understand, and you will feel better after that.

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Kremlin war hawks demand more devastating strikes on Ukraine

By DASHA LITVINOVA today

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow’s barrage of missile strikes on cities all across Ukraine has elicited celebratory comments from Russian officials and pro-Kremlin pundits, who in recent weeks have actively criticized the Russian military for a series of embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield.

Russian nationalist commentators and state media war correspondents lauded Monday’s attack as an appropriate, and long-awaited, response to a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive and a weekend attack on the bridge between Russia and Crimea, the prized Black Sea peninsula Russia annexed in 2014.

Many of them argued that Moscow should keep up the intensity of Monday’s strikes to win the war now. Some analysts suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin was becoming a hostage of his allies’ views on how the campaign in Ukraine should unfold.

“Putin’s initiative is weakening, and he is becoming more dependent on circumstances and those who are forging the ‘victory’ (in Ukraine) for him,” Tatyana Stanovaya, founder of the independent R.Politik think tank, wrote in an online commentary Monday.

“The fear of defeat is so strong, especially for those who are now fully immersed in this military venture, that Putin’s indecisiveness, with his logic of ‘We have not started anything yet’ and ‘Restrained tactics have paid off’ has become a problem,” the analyst said.

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Russi Attacks Ukraine as a Defiant Putin Warns the U.S. and NATO Not to Interfere BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, DASHA LITVINOVA, YURAS KARMANAU AND JIM HEINTZ / AP MOSCOW — Russian troops launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine on Thursday, as President Vladimir Putin cast aside international condemnation and sanctions and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen.” Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa as world leaders decried the start of an invasion that could cause massive casualties, topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government and threaten the post-Cold War balance on the continent. (at Madrid, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cahf3tMtEeC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe 'shattered' :: WRAL.com

Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe ‘shattered’ :: WRAL.com

By YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA, Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the…

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El sentimiento contra la guerra crece en Rusia a pesar de la represión del gobierno

El sentimiento contra la guerra crece en Rusia a pesar de la represión del gobierno

Por DASHA LITVINOVA y VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Agentes de policía detienen a una mujer en San Petersburgo, Rusia, el viernes 25 de febrero de 2022. Conmocionados, miles de rusos acudieron el jueves para denunciar la invasión de Ucrania por parte de su país a medida que crecían los emotivos llamados a protestar en las redes sociales. Unas 1.745 personas en 54 ciudades rusas fueron detenidas, al menos…

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Diplomatic shuttle: Macron heads to Kyiv after Putin talks

Diplomatic shuttle: Macron heads to Kyiv after Putin talks

Diplomatic efforts to defuse the tensions around Ukraine continued on Tuesday with French President Emmanuel Macron expected in Kyiv By SYLVIE CORBET and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press February 8, 2022, 9:46 AM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article KYIV, Ukraine — Diplomatic efforts to defuse the tensions around Ukraine continued on Tuesday with French President…

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Cyberattack in Ukraine targets authorities web sites

Ukrainian officers say an enormous cyberattack has left quite a lot of authorities web sites briefly unavailable

  KYIV, Ukraine -- An enormous cyberattack left quite a lot of Ukrainian authorities web sites briefly unavailable on Friday, officers mentioned.

Whereas it wasn't instantly clear who was behind the cyberattack, the disruption got here amid heightened tensions with Russia and after talks between Moscow and the West did not yield any vital progress this week.

Ukrainian International Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko advised The Related Press it was too quickly to inform who may have been behind the assault.

"However there's a lengthy report of Russian cyber-assaults towards Ukraine previously,” he mentioned.

Moscow had beforehand denied involvement in cyberattacks towards Ukraine.

The websites of the nation's Cupboard, seven ministries, the Treasury, the Nationwide Emergency Service, and the state companies web site, the place Ukrainians' digital passports and vaccination certificates are saved, had been briefly unavailable Friday on account of the hack.

The websites contained a message in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, saying that Ukrainians' private information has been leaked into the general public area. “Be afraid and count on the worst. That is on your previous, current, and future," the message learn, partly.

Ukraine's State Service of Communication and Data Safety mentioned that no private information has been leaked.

The nation's minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, insisted that private information was protected, since “the operability of the websites, not the registries,” was affected by the hack. Fedorov mentioned that a few of the attacked websites had been blocked by their directors so as to include the harm and examine the assaults.

He added that “a big half” of the affected websites have been restored.

The U.S. estimates Russia has massed about 100,000 troops close to Ukraine, a buildup that has stoked fears of an invasion. Moscow says it has no plans to assault and rejects Washington’s demand to tug again its forces, saying it has the best to deploy them wherever essential.

The Kremlin has demanded safety ensures from the West that NATO would not develop eastward.

Final month, Moscow submitted draft safety paperwork demanding that NATO deny membership to Ukraine and different former Soviet international locations and roll again the alliance’s army deployments in Central and Jap Europe. Washington and its allies have refused to supply such pledges, however mentioned they're prepared for the talks.

Excessive-stakes talks this week between Moscow and the U.S., adopted by a gathering of Russia and NATO representatives and a gathering on the Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe, did not result in any quick progress.

European Union international coverage chief Josep Borrell mentioned Friday that the 27-nation bloc is able to mobilize all its sources to supply technical help to Ukraine and assist it to enhance its capability to climate cyberattacks.

Borrell advised a gathering of EU international ministers within the French port metropolis of Brest that the bloc would mobilize its cyber speedy response groups. Borrell added that he would ask member international locations to permit Ukraine to profit from anti-cyberattacks sources throughout the framework of the EU Everlasting Structured Cooperation (PESCO), although the nation is not a member of the union.

“We're going to mobilize all our sources to assist Ukraine deal with these cyberattacks,” Borrell mentioned. “Sadly, we anticipated this might occur.”

Requested who could possibly be behind the assault, Borrell mentioned: “I can’t level at anyone as a result of I've no proof, however one can think about.”

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Catherine Gaschka in Brest, France, Samuel Petrequin in Brussels, and Dasha Litvinova in Moscow, contributed to this report.

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Kazak lider: Rusya liderliğindeki güvenlik grubu askerlerini çekecek

Kazak lider: Rusya liderliğindeki güvenlik grubu askerlerini çekecek

Kazakistan cumhurbaşkanı, Rusya liderliğindeki bir güvenlik ittifakının, görevini tamamladıktan iki gün sonra birliklerini Orta Asya ülkesinden çekmeye başlayacağını duyurdu. İle DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press 11 Ocak 2022, 19:30 • 3 dakika okuma FaceBook’ta paylaşTwitter’da paylaşBu makaleyi e-posta ile gönder MOSKOVA — Kazakistan cumhurbaşkanı Salı günü yaptığı açıklamada, Rusya…

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Kremlin War Hawks Demand More Devastating Strikes on Ukraine : Inside US

Kremlin War Hawks Demand More Devastating Strikes on Ukraine : Inside US

By DASHA LITVINOVA, Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow’s barrage of missile strikes on cities all across Ukraine has elicited celebratory comments from Russian officials and pro-Kremlin pundits, who in recent weeks have actively criticized the Russian military for a series of embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield. Russian nationalist commentators and state media’s war…

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JRL NEWSWATCH: "Kazakh leader: Russia-led security group to pull out troops" - AP/ Dasha Litvinova

JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kazakh leader: Russia-led security group to pull out troops” – AP/ Dasha Litvinova

“The president of Kazakhstan announced Tuesday that [the] Russia-led security alliance [Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), including six former Soviet states,] will start pulling out its troops [from Kazakhstan] … in two days …. Protests over soaring fuel prices erupted in the oil and gas-rich Central Asian nation of 19 million on Jan. 2 and quickly spread across the country ……