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Living openly in Russia as member of LGBTQ community is increasingly difficult; Moscow has even been known to frame the invasion of Ukraine as a way to defend conservative values against Western promotion of gay and transgender rights. Source link

The refusal comes soon after a row between Lula and Ukraine’s Zelensky at the G7 summit in Japan, where a planned meeting between the pair fell through. Source link

President marked Orthodox Easter Sunday by attending cathedral service in Moscow, praising religious authorities for ‘preserving moral and family values’. Source link

Expectations of weak economic prospects over the coming few years, along with fears of Western sanctions, have rich Chinese looking for a safe place to park their cash. Source link

Ukrainian soldiers come under heavy attack in Bakhmut city as Russia launched air strikes, artillery barrages, while Kyiv claims its counteroffensive plan not hurt by US leak. Source link

Gleb Karakulov, whose role involved encrypting Putin’s communications, said the president gathers news from his inner circle and state TV. Source link

Trump’s fading appeal among all but the the most diehard of supporters means he is unlikely to get another stab at the White House. With the Democrats’ path to 2024 also fraught, Beijing and Moscow are the hands-down winners amid this division in America. Source link

Moscow has already decided to station tactical nukes on Belarus soil, but the leader says he and Putin could bring in longer-ranged strategic weapons as well. Source link

A top security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would destabilise that country. Source link

The seven-month fight for Bakhmut, where Russian forces have closed in on three sides, is the longest battle of the war. Kremlin forces must go through Bakhmut to push deeper into parts of the eastern Donbas region. Source link