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Moscow’s 2022 ‘Teacher of the Year’ killed while fighting in Ukraine, Meduza reports

Gennady Starunov, a physical education teacher who was named Moscow’s “Teacher of the Year” in 2022, was killed while serving in the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine, school officials confirmed on July 21. – https://kyivindependent.com/tag/ukraine/rss/ This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com This article is taken based on Law no. 8/1996 of Romania. News […]

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Meduza, German PR firm apologize for campaign featuring Ukrainian war victims

Independent Russian media outlet Meduza and a German PR agency both apologized on Feb. 2 for a promotional campaign that featured photos of Ukrainian war victims. The campaign used a photo of Yaroslav Bazylevych whose entire family was killed when a Russian missile hit their apartment building on Sept. 4 in the western Ukrainian city […]

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Outrage after Russian independent media Meduza uses Ukrainian war victim in ad campaign

Russian independent news outlet Meduza used a photo of a Ukrainian man mourning his family killed in a Russian strike to bolster its European promo campaign — without his permission, he told the Kyiv Independent. The photo is of Yaroslav Bazylevych, whose entire family was killed when a Russian missile hit their apartment building on Sept. […]

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Russian elite ‘disappointed’ about Putin’s handling of war in Ukraine, Meduza reports

Members of Russia’s political elite are “disappointed” with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the war in Ukraine, and had hoped it would end in 2024, Meduza reported on Jan. 9. Citing ten officials including two sources close to Putin’s administration, and one senator, the independent Russian media outlet said the state of the country’s […]