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People stand at ticket machines in a cinema lobby inside a shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. "The Witness," a state-sponsored drama that premiered in Russia on Aug. 17, is the first feature film about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine to hit the movie theaters nationwide. It depicts Ukrainian troops as violent neo-Nazis who torture and kill their own people. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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The Ukraine war, propaganda-style, is coming to Russian movie screens. Will people watch?
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Sun,08/27/23-11:52PM , 558 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The movie centers around a violinist from Belgium arriving to Kyiv to perform. It is February 2022, and his trip is upended as Russia starts bombing Ukraine. The artist survives a series of “inhuman crimes and bloody provocations by Ukrainian nationalists,” and he is ready to tell the world “what it was really like.”
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A ticket machine with a poster of "The Witness" movie is displayed in a cinema lobby inside a shopping mall in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. "The Witness," a state-sponsored drama that premiered in Russia on Aug. 17, is the first feature film about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine to hit the movie theaters nationwide. It depicts Ukrainian troops as violent neo-Nazis who torture and kill their own people. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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The Ukraine war, propaganda-style, is coming to Russian movie screens. Will people watch?
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Sun,08/27/23-11:50PM , 235 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The movie centers around a renowned violinist from Belgium arriving in Kyiv to perform. The date is February 2022, and his trip is upended as Russia starts bombing Ukraine.
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In this image from video provided by the Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company speaks to a camera at an unknown location. The final two months of Yevgeny Prigozhin's life are shrouded in mystery. When the Russian mercenary leader staged a mutiny against the country's military in June, President Vladimir Putin decried it as “treason” and vowed punishment. But then he cut a a deal not to prosecute the chief of the Wagner group. Two months later, Prigozhin’s business jet plummeted from the sky. (Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel via AP, File)

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Prigozhin's final months were overshadowed by questions about what the Kremlin had in store for him
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Sun,08/27/23-1:39AM , 105 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Yevgeny Prigozhin smiled as a crowd of adoring fans surrounded his black SUV on June 24 in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don and cheered him on.
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In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 file photo, People gather in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, portrait in center, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Once deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a popular politician and harsh critic of Putin. On a cold February night in 2015, he was gunned down by assailants on a bridge adjacent to the Kremlin as he walked with his girlfriend in a death that sent shockwaves across the country. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, file)

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Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Over the years, Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Fri,08/25/23-2:51AM , 137 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent — to the more mundane of getting shot at close range. Some take a fatal plunge from an open window.
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