Russia Update

The former French President praised Putin’s leadership and called for Europe to work “hand in hand” with Russia.

The Russian Federation Council approved a law restricting news aggregators which provides for heavy fines if material inciting terrorism, promoting pornography or cruelty or containing swear language is published.

Moscow police detained two people who had come to the US Embassy in Moscow to lay flowers in an expression of their condolences over the terrorist killing of 49 people in Orlando.

A French prosecutor says Russian hooligans were behind the violent clashes between English and Russian soccer fans in Marseilles on June 10.

Parnas opposition party candidate Pivovarov was sentenced to a fine of $23,135, and his co-defendant policeman Niknorov was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months of standard-regimen labor camp.

The aircraft is reported to have been part of the Russian Knights air display team.

Pavlensky has been in detention since he set fire to the doors of the FSB building in November.

Russian MPs who protested the razing of a Constructivist building have been beaten; a state journalist covering corruption in Vladivostok has also been attacked.

A Russian prosecutor has asked that Pyotr Pavlensky, an activist artist who set fire to the doors of the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Lubyanka Square last year be given only a 1.5 million fine ($22,942) and not jail time.

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