19-year-old Anna Victoria Politkovskaya, the granddaughter of the murdered Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, spoke at a meeting of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights. She called for a pan-European mechanism for the emergency issuance of humanitarian visas for people who cannot safely remain in Russia.

#AnnaViktoriaPolitkovskaja #EuropeanParliament #LGBTcommunity #repressionsinRussia #Russia #NorthCaucasus

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The German non-profit organization Agora Digitale Transformation calculated that 50 Members of the European Parliament became victims of deepfake pornography, including 46 women. According to its estimate, that is every sixth female member of the current convocation.

#AgoraDigitaleTransformation #Grok #MembersoftheEuropeanParliament #deepfakepornography #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion

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Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the operations of the «Russian House of Science and Culture» in Berlin and checking its tenants for possible sanctions violations. A month ago, the German government closed the building and expelled its employees to Russia.

#Berlin #Germany #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #Rossotrudnichestvo #RussianHouse

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Police in several European countries have begun to отказаться from Oxygen Forensics software for extracting data from smartphones. In Romania, Latvia, and London, decisions have already been made to review, suspend, or discontinue its use, and the U.S. Department of Justice considers the Virginia-based firm to be secretly owned by Russians.

#OxygenForensics #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #London #USDepartmentofJustice #Romania

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Four Members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to propose new legislation on AI liability to close gaps in EU rules. Under their plan, companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic should be responsible for harm that their technology may cause.

#AIAct #HuggingFace #openai #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #ArtificialIntelligence

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The European Commission presented the EU KIDS Act bill, which introduces EU-wide age restrictions on social media and video platforms. Children under 13 are to be barred from social media, while creating accounts independently would be allowed only from age 15.

#Australia #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #socialnetwork #UrsulavonderLeyen

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The European Union announced plans to restrict access to social networks for children under 16 in all member states. Children under 13 are to be completely barred from accessing platforms, while teenagers aged 13–15 would be allowed to use them for one hour a day through «mini-accounts» created by parents or guardians.

#EUKidsAct #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #socialnetworks #UrsulavonderLeyen

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The trial of former French culture minister Rachida Dati began in Paris in a corruption case linked to Renault-Nissan. Prosecutors say that in 2009–2013 she illegally lobbied for the automaker, receiving fees through its Dutch subsidiary while serving as a Member of the European Parliament.

#GDFSuez #RenaultNissan #EuropeanParliament #CarlosGhosn #Paris #RashidaDati

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Germany’s Foreign Ministry has begun scrutinizing Schengen visa applications from Russian men of conscription age especially closely. The ministry assesses the risk that applicants will not return to Russia or their country of residence after the trip and makes decisions on a case-by-case basis.

#Germany #EuropeanParliament #Leipzig #GermanForeignMinistry #CDUCSU #Schengenvisa

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The founder of the «Iskra» association, Gera Ugryumova, has been fighting discrimination against Russians in exile since September 2023. Before that, in order to obtain political asylum in Italy, she spent a year and a half processing documents for residence in the European Union — and for some time lived in shelters without an identity document or a bank account. Now the 24-year-old human rights activist, together with her team, helps compatriots in similar situations, and «Iskra» works only thanks to donations from private individuals. Right now, Gera is pushing European authorities to amend a regulation that prevents thousands of Russians in exile from opening bank accounts in European banks.

#advocacy #bureaucracy #WarinUkraine #HeraUgryumova #discrimination #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #interview #humanrights #sanctions #Emigration

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When PSG's plane landed in Paris after their Champions League victory, all the cameras of the welcoming journalists captured the huge inscription QATAR in large letters on its side. No one really hides that the football club is an important part of the «soft power» of the small but wealthy and ambitious Arab state.

#InvestmentsinQatarisports #MiddleEast #MuslimBrotherhood #EuropeanParliament #west #Qatar #ChampionsLeague #lobbying #softpower #RomanAbramovich #sport #France #football #SoccerWorldCup

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