Russian court fines Google $2.5 trillion trillion trillion
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Russian court fines Google $2.5 trillion trillion trillion

A Russian court has fined Google $2.5 decillion after the U.S. tech giant allegedly blocked pro-Kremlin propaganda on YouTube, Russian state media reported on Oct. 29. An original fine of 100,000 rubles was handed to Google in 2020 which, under Russian law, has since doubled every week. Written in full $2.5 decillion is $2,500,000,000,000,000,​000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or […]
Moscow court issues arrest warrants for ICC judges involved in
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Moscow court issues arrest warrants for ICC judges involved in Russia-linked cases

A Moscow court ordered an arrest in absentia of Reine Alapini-Gansou, the second vice-president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Nov. 13. The case against Alapini-Gansou was launched under the article of "illegal detention," Mediazona reported without providing additional details. She has also been placed on the wanted […]
Russian occupation court sentences Ukrainian to 11 years for alleged
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Russian occupation court sentences Ukrainian to 11 years for alleged espionage

A Russian-controlled court in occupied Donetsk Oblast sentenced 20-year-old Mikhail Karimov, a resident of Mariupol, to 11 years in a strict regime penal colony, Mariupol City Council reported on Dec. 12. Karimov was accused of allegedly providing Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) with information about Russian troop locations and movements between December 2022 and June 2023. […]
Russian court sentences 72-year-old US citizen for fighting for Ukraine
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Russian court sentences 72-year-old US citizen for fighting for Ukraine

A Moscow court sentenced 72-year-old American Stephen James Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison for fighting in Ukraine as "a mercenary," Russian independent media outlet Mediazona reported on Oct. 7. Hubbard reportedly had been living in Ukraine since 2014. After Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, he joined a Ukrainian territorial defense unit in […]
Ukrainian court sentences hackers who carried out over 5,000 cyberattacks
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Ukrainian court sentences hackers who carried out over 5,000 cyberattacks for Russia

A Ukrainian court has sentenced in absentia two members of the Russian security service-backed (FSB) hacker group "Armageddon" for having carried out more than 5,000 cyberattacks against Ukrainian institutions and critical infrastructure, Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) said on Oct. 8. Russian hackers have regularly targeted various Ukrainian government institutions as well as businesses with […]
Moscow court sentences Ukrainian-born film producer to 8 and a
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Moscow court sentences Ukrainian-born film producer to 8 and a half years in absentia for reporting on Russian war crimes

Moscow's Basmanny district court sentenced Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky, on Oct. 21, to 8 and a half years in absentia for "spreading fake information" about the Russian Army. Rodnyansky worked in Russia for decades, and fled after Russia’s full-scale invasion started in 2022. The 63-year-old Oscar-nominated producer was accused of reporting on the shelling […]