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Kevin Rothrock
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hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
Russia's Transportation Ministry has proposed lifting requirements that travel information be duplicated in English. Moscow's subway system apparently stopped announcing stations in English back in 2021 when the pandemic killed tourism & people allegedly "complained."
In German court, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is challenging the constitutionality of last year's raids on his property, including his yacht. He argues that requirements to report all his assets after being sanctioned violates his right against self-incrimination.
Kyiv is considering canceling the visa-free regime with Israel and will request the country be excluded from Ramstein meetings due to its “unfriendly actions towards Ukraine and pro-Russian position on the international arena,” Kyiv Post has been told.
A local elected official in the Komi Republic has been charged with violating Russia’s “foreign agent” laws because he submitted a local legislative initiative without including a “foreign agent” disclosure. (He got the label for receiving a train-ticket refund in London.)
The ex-husband of Marina Ovsyannikova (the former Russian state TV worker who interrupted a live broadcast with an antiwar banner) is suing her for full custody of their kids. She fled to Paris last year with their daughter after felony "disinformation" charges.