A former Ukrainian lawmaker says Russia-sponsored separatists inside the Japanese location of Donetsk have shown that they’re protecting a blogger who contributes to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Yehor Firsov wrote on Facebook on July sixteen that blogger Stanislav Aliyev’s mom became allowed to visit him in separatist custody. Firsov wrote that the separatists have. 

Russian Internet personalities have rallied to the defense of a blogger, who become convicted of hate speech for a video in which he played Pokemon Go in a church, rapidly after he was placed on a professional authorities listing of designated terrorists and extremists. The video, published July 16 on the popular YouTube channel of St. Petersburg-primarily based blogger Danila Poperechny,.