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Former American porn star Sasha Grey ditched her acting career and worked as a nurse for pro-Russian rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine until she was brutally murdered by Ukrainian government forces.

Ukrainian armed forces positioned near the Russian-Ukrainian border were attacked by artillery fire in the summer of 2014.

The Sputnik News Channel, designed to spread Russian propaganda, has begun to look for journalists who could work in the portal and radio station to be created in Estonia; Russian staff of Postimees and Delfi have already received the corresponding letters, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

Western observers of the increasingly deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine between the separatist forces armed and supported by Russian troops and soldiers loyal to Kiev have long opposed the practice of dubbing the insurgents “pro-Russian forces.

The head of Russia's media watchdog has accused Twitter of a persistently failing to comply with Russian laws, after the micro blog said Moscow had submitted the world's second-largest number of requests to remove content in the second half of 2014.

What former NBC head Andy Lack needs to do in his new job at the Broadcasting Board of Governors. On January 21, Andrew Lack, the media titan who at different times has headed Bloomberg, Sony, and NBC News…

Johnson’s Russia List, or JRL, run by David Johnson, is a widely-read and influential email newsletter and website, also referred to as a listserv, which publishes a regular compilation of English-language news on Russia from a variety of sources.

Leonid Levin, the head of the Duma’s committee on public communications policy, wants to grant police the extrajudicial power to block access to Internet anonymizers and “the means of accessing anonymous…

A supposedly independent international advocacy group is backed by Russia and, in turn, works to expand its influence around the world, writes James Kirchick for The Daily Beast.

Data pubished by Twitter on Monday showed Russia in the past six months asked the micro-blogging site to remove content 91 times, second only to Turkey.