[BBC] Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, has said the treatment of Russian journalists in the UK is reason the BBC's Sarah Rainsford has been expelled from the country.
In this interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, he insists the BBC correspondent will be allowed back into the country, where she has reported for years, once UK visas have been issued to Russian reporters.
A Russian working as a reporter for the Tass state news agency left the UK in 2019 after he was denied leave to remain. The Russian government did not make a fuss at the time.
The UK foreign office says Russian journalists continue to work freely in the UK providing they act within the law.
Sarah Rainsford was told she'd been barred from Russia by the FSB security service in August and was labelled a "security threat" - a label that she and the BBC deny.
The move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in Russia, where critics of the Kremlin are increasingly being labelled as "hostile agents" of the West.
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The move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in Russia, where critics of the Kremlin are increasingly being labelled as "hostile agents" of the West.
Which move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in the US, where critics of the regime are increasingly being labelled as "hostile agents" of the Woke.
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[Rusvesna] State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov said on the air of the radio station "Moscow Says" that unmarried Russian women should not go on vacation to Turkey.
According to him, local men are "famous" for not the best behavior and are constantly trying to "give women drunk with alcohol."
"Very often there is a problem that many Russian girls do not understand at all when they succumb to the courtship of Turkish seducers. They sing songs about great love, and then the child turns out to be the property of this Turkish pasha, and the mother is completely disenfranchised," the deputy said, adding that there are "a lot of such complaints" so unmarried Russian women should be banned from traveling to Turkey.
Earlier, Milonov proposed to deprive the pension of Russians involved in collection activities. According to him, "you need to be a complete bastard and a scoundrel to call mothers and threaten them."
In his opinion, such people should be prohibited from calling themselves citizens. This proposal, so to speak, could be from an American reality TV show involving a young Russian woman and an American man from Utah, meeting in Turkey. Continued on Page 47
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[KavkazUzel] A group of the most active participants in the riots in the Vladikavkaz colony was taken to a correctional facility in Dagestan.
As "Caucasian Knot" wrote , on October 15, riots broke out in a strict regime colony in North Ossetia, accompanied by a fire. The Federal Penitentiary Service claims that two prisoners from the punishment cell during the searches refused to obey the demands of the employees of the institution and called on other prisoners to riot.
Investigators opened a criminal case on organizing and participating in the riots. According to their version, in the correctional colony, at least two hundred prisoners took part in the riot in the colony. The riots in the maximum security penal colony took place a week after the appointment of a new head of the FSIN in North Ossetia, which toughened up the treatment of prisoners, the sources said.
Prisoners told the anti-torture hotline in places of detention that beatings preceded the riot. They achieved a meeting with the human rights ombudsman in the republic. The Ombudsman said that earlier prisoners of this colony went on a hunger strike, protesting against the tightening of discipline, and that there were many infrastructure problems in the institution.
The prisoners were divided into several groups. A total of 36 of the most active participants in the riot were rushed to a maximum security colony in Dagestan, Osnova reported on October 16.
Initially, it was planned to send them to Chechnya, but at the last moment this decision was changed, the Baza Telegram channel reported.
In total, they plan to send 150 people to different regions, the report says.
There are no messages from the sending of part of the prisoners to the colony in Dagestan as of 7.00 Moscow time today on the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service for North Ossetia.
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[REGNUM] In Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, a verdict was passed on Nine members of a criminal group on charges of illegal drug trade. As a REGNUM correspondent was told in the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, seven residents of Kansk and two Achintsy were among the defendants.
According to the department, from November 2016 to June 2017, the organizer of the group, who is serving a sentence in a colony, opened online stores for the contactless sale of synthetic drugs. He attracted the rest of the defendants to illegal activities via the Internet.
A man bought large quantities of a prohibited substance from an unidentified person, which was then taken by his accomplices from hiding places, and packed into smaller quantities to create "bookmarks."
"During the indicated period of time, the defendants tried to sell a narcotic drug with a total weight of more than 1 kg, but their criminal activities were suppressed by law enforcement officers," the prosecutor's office said.
Following the results of the proceedings, the court found the accused guilty. The organizer, who is still in prison, was sentenced to 12 years in a special regime colony. The rest were sentenced to seven to nine years in a maximum security colony, depending on the role and degree of participation in the activities of the organized criminal group.
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[REGNUM] As a result of shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine (VFU), residents of the villages of Verkhnetoretskoye and Krasny Partizan were left without electricity. This was reported on October 17 by the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
It is clarified that the Ukrainian security forces fired at populated areas from large-caliber machine guns.
"Attempts of the Donetsk People's Republic in the JCCC to use a coordination mechanism to quickly establish silence were ignored by the Ukrainian side," the office said.
No casualties were reported.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on October 17, the head of the Yasinovataya administration Dmitry Shevchenko said that an electrical substation was damaged in the vicinity of the city as a result of shelling by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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