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In a statement on Telegram, shared by the Tesla and Space X CEO, the Chechen leader warned Musk to be careful of what he was asking for

Russian millennials and young people are social media savvy, liberal - and horrified by their mother country’s actions in Ukraine. Katie Strick meets a politicised generation

Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia's internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China's so-called Great Firewall. So when Western tech companies began cutting ties with Russia following its invasion, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov was alarmed.

The Kremlin's raft of online censorship measures has exposed serious shortcomings in its efforts to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China's so-called Great Firewall

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday called on the mothers of Russian soldiers to prevent their sons being sent to war in Ukraine. "I want to say this once again to Russian mothers, especially mothers of conscripts. Do not send your children to war in a foreign country," Zelensky said…

Last year in May, the village of Noorpur in Uttar Pradesh made news when its Dalit residents alleged that a marriage procession of theirs had been stopped by a group of local Muslims. The situation became tense enough to warrant armed police being deployed in the area.

Olga Smirnova published an emotional post on social networking platform Telegram saying she is opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine where she has family and friends

Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his armed forces to surrender.