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Iran lodged a protest with Moscow over what it called the “violent” arrest of two Iranian students in the Russian city of Kazan, state media reported Saturday. The students were detained Friday at Kazan Federal University after visiting a visa extension center, where police allegedly subjected them to “inhumane and unprofessional beating,” according to the […]
Alsu Kurmasheva, a longtime journalist for the U.S.-funded RFE/RL news outlet’s Tatar-Bashkir service, became the second U.S. journalist to be jailed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when she was detained in October 2023. The dual U.S.-Russian citizen, who lives in Prague, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in July on charges of spreading “false […]