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When Tucker Carlson, a popular American right-wing conservative, released an interview with lawyer Robert Amsterdam titled “Ukrainian churches are being burned and priests beaten,” it quickly gained traction with the so-called MAGA movement seeking the return of Donald Trump as president. The April interview was reposted as a YouTube short and included a clip of what was claimed to be Russia-linkedUkrainian churches burning, suggesting they were set ablaze by Ukraine’s pro-western leadership or its supporters. In fact, the video contained disinformation, actually showing a Ukrainian Greek Cath...
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The Muftiate of Dagestan announced on July 3 that it would introduce a temporary ban on the wearing of niqabs following a terrorist attack in the Russian republic in June that killed 22 people. The ban will be instituted until "the identified threats are eliminated and a new theological conclusion is issued," said a spokesperson for the Muftiate, a religious organization that represents Dagestani Muslisms. The announcement follows a statement after the attack by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, who said it was the work of "Islamist terrorists" and urged Russia...
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Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated. At least 15 police officers "fell victim" to a terrorist attack in Russia's Dagestan Republic on June 23, said Sergey Melikov, the republic's head. Melikov did not specify the precise number of policemen who were killed and how many were injured, but added that several civilians had also died. The attacks occurred in Dagestan's capital and largest city, Makhachkala, and Derbent, a city located near the border with Azerbaijan. A counterterrorism regime was instituted on June 23 after militants allegedly fired on a synagogue, two ch...
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is carrying out searches on May 1 at Metropolitan Luka (Andrii Kovalenko) of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian church, a source in law enforcement agencies confirmed for the Kyiv Independent on May 1. Kovalenko is the metropolitan bishop of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The source did not specify the reasons behind the searches. Chesno, a public transparency-focused Ukrainian NGO, accused Kovalenko of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and justifying Moscow's aggression against Ukraine. In 2023, Ko...
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