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NEW World · 20:19
The US Embassy in Moscow warned on Saturday, 31 October, of a "credible threat of a mass casualty event" that same day at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve in the south of the city and told Americans to stay away. Russia's FSB security service said it had received information from the US about preparations for a terrorist attack in Moscow and was acting on it. The museum park was closed and visitors were evacuated; no incident or casualties had been reported by Saturday evening.
Source: U.S. Embassy Moscow; FSB via RIA Novosti; TASS; Reuters; Meduza; NEWS.ru
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NEW Politics · 06:38
Novaya Gazeta, one of the last critical media outlets still working from inside Russia, has announced that it will close permanently next month. The newspaper, whose former editor Dmitry Muratov won the 2021 Nobel peace prize, says it has been stripped of its newsroom, its donation platforms and its legal right to publish. "This is the story of a country and a society that are being systematically crushed," editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov wrote.
Source: Novaya Gazeta; The Guardian; Reuters; DW
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NEW Politics · 06:38
The traditional group photo opening the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta was cancelled on Friday after about a third of the delegations, including EU countries, the UK and Australia, said they would not appear next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the host, called off the photo but opened the talks with an appeal for unity.
Source: The Guardian; BBC; Reuters; Al Jazeera