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Nearly 400 members of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, were behind proposed amendments to existing legislation that would prohibit "medical interventions aimed at changing a person's gender," one of the co-authors of the bill, Pyotr Tolstoy announced on his Telegram channel. The bill exempts surgery to treat congenital anomalies in children.
"This was connected both with the desire of same-sex couples to adopt children and partly with mobilization obstacles. This is at odds with our values and the principles of our Constitution," Tolstoy said.
"Why are we doing this? We preserve Russia for our descendants, Russia with its cultural and family values and traditional norms, by blocking the Western anti-family ideology from infiltrating the country," the lawmaker said Tuesday on his Telegram channel.
Last month, Russian Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko told state-run news agency Tass that the ministry was moving to prohibit gender marker changes in ID documents for those who have not undergone "sex change operations."
"A gender change letter issued by a medical organization currently serves as grounds to correct official documents. However, surgical procedures are not necessary to obtain this letter," Chuychenko said at the time. "Therefore, we see the following: a person who changed their gender in their passport while remaining the same person in the physical sense can marry and adopt children."
Independent news outlet Mediazona, citing data from Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs, reported that in 2022, the number of Russians who received a new passport after gender reassignment rose dramatically.
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According to a timeline established through leaked documents and sources familiar with the circumstances of the accident, the crash came at the end of a flurry of flyer distribution, vandalism and rallies targeting Utah in February 2021. Later, Patriot Front had to contend with online accusations that the accident was a result of Rousseau pushing members too hard in his efforts to propagandize and recruit in the state, a claim that Rousseau emphatically denied in leaked internal Patriot Front communications.
Patriot Front have never publicly acknowledged that the crash happened. In May 2021, on their Telegram channel, they even backdated footage of a Salt Lake City action to March 2021, a date which is difficult to reconcile with the serious injuries sustained by Rousseau on Feb. 28. According to private communications provided to Hatewatch by a source close to Rousseau, the hate group's leader required artificial respiration, surgery and an implant to stabilize his injured spine. A second source who is close to Rousseau confirmed the extent of his injuries in a telephone conversation.
Graham Whitson is both a member of Patriot Front and a camera operator for the closely aligned propaganda operation Media2Rise, which was founded by Robert Rundo, also a leader of white nationalist hate group Rise Above Movement (RAM), who now lives in Serbia. On Feb. 10, Judge Cormac Carney reopened the trial of Rundo and three other members of RAM after prosecutors successfully appealed his 2019 dismissal of federal riot charges against the men. The charges arose from RAM's alleged planning for violence at counterprotests in Southern California and beyond. Rundo is due to appear in court in Santa Ana, California, on Dec. 22.
Photo illustration by SPLC. From left, Ryan Stoneburner, Kevin Bersuch and Thomas Rousseau. Stoneburner was behind the wheel during the fatal Utah crash, and Patriot Front leader Rousseau was critically injured. Bersuch, 21, died at the scene.
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This followed his doctors insisting that the operation was essential, according to opposition Telegram channel General SVR, which has regularly claimed inside knowledge of the Russian President's supposed health problems.
We have already talked about the fact that Putin was personally absent from the information space from May 17 to May 19 and was not available even to his inner circle, with the exception of Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
General SVR had previously predicted that Putin had been ordered by doctors to undergo surgery related to a cancer condition at around this time, and had forecast his temporary disappearance despite the war in Ukraine.
Face to face meetings with Rostech head Sergei Chemezovand Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev were said to have taken place on Wednesday and Thursday but these were said to have taken place earlier and been saved to give the impression Putin was active.
Vladimir Putin may soon vanish from the public eye as he goes for cancer surgery, according to new claims. He has allegedly selected politician and security officer Nikolai Patrushev to 'control' Russia in his absence.
They come amid speculation that Putin will announce all-out war in Ukraine, and order mass mobilisation of military-age men. Such a move would be seen as high-risk since many may refuse to fight. It is suggested Putin, 69, has already delayed surgery, which is now unlikely to take place before he presides over the grandiose Red Square 9 May Victory Day commemoration of the defeat of Hitler.
At a meeting with Defence minister Sergei Shoigu, he was seen firmly gripping a desk. The channel said: Many drew attention to the sickly appearance of the president, his puffy, swollen face and hands tightly clasped around the table top.
In the chaotic aftermath of an attack Tuesday on a Gaza hospital, as Israeli and Palestinian officials traded blame for an aerial barrage that Gaza health authorities said killed 471 people, the militant group Hamas quickly turned to its primary messaging platform: the online chat app Telegram.
Israel's military had blamed the blast on misfired rockets from another Palestinian militant group. But over a rapid-fire series of nearly two dozen messages in Arabic and English, Hamas told its online audience of hundreds of thousands that the "massacre" had come from an Israeli airstrike and that the country and its Western allies were at fault for "genocide."
Responsibility for the hospital blast has not been definitively determined. But in the days since its forces stormed across southern Israel, Hamas has deployed an unprecedented and multipronged social media campaign to tell its version of the war with Israel, seeking to persuade the world that its militants are freedom fighters justified in their killing and abduction of Israeli civilians.
Hamas has shared Telegram messages designed to strengthen supporters' resolve, stir up anti-Israel rage in neighboring countries, defend its militants' brutality and induce sympathy to the plight of Gaza, the coastal strip housing 2 million Palestinians under Hamas's control. Follower counts for those channels have tripled since the attack, according to figures compiled by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.
In one video posted to Hamas's Telegram channel, camouflaged men hefting assault rifles push a crying baby in a stroller outside a ransacked Israeli home. The clip, said to display "Hamas fighters showing compassion for children," has been viewed 200,000 times.
But the group also has worked to use the internet as a tool for terror and antisemitism, building on a playbook pioneered by the Islamic State with the aim of instilling fear, winning attention and marshaling support for potentially more attacks to come.
In some videos, Hamas militants show off the bloodied hostages they've taken, the long-range missiles they've built and the training drills they've run with rocket launchers and machine guns. One video is captioned in Hebrew: "This is what awaits you when you enter Gaza."
Hamas's social media strategy was evident in the initial hours of its bloody assault when visceral footage from body-worn GoPro cameras quickly flooded its Telegram channels. In one clip, a militant points the camera at a body and says, "Time for photographs."
In the days since, Hamas has continued using those channels to publish video monologues from political and military leaders, rally international supporters to take up arms and threaten to broadcast hostage executions. One channel has posted short video sound bites from Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's political leader living in exile in Qatar, while another has posted fundraising messages seeking donations in cryptocurrency.
Some of the videos show Hamas's fighting force as ruthless and resourceful, and are edited to include dramatic soundtracks, title animations, slow-motion sequences and other professional touches. One video shows an action-movie-style training montage, while another uses footage recorded from underwater cameras and flying drones to show how militants refashioned pipelines into missiles.
Rita Katz, the executive director of SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks terror groups online, said Hamas's channels were once a "boring" mix of photos showing rocket launches and killed fighters, known as "martyr reports."
Since the ambush, however, the channels have shifted to publishing rapid-response statements and highly produced videos at all hours - a flow of wartime messaging and propaganda that Israeli supporters have described as psychological warfare.
Hamas is banned by Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter. Many of its videos have nevertheless been reposted on X, which some experts said has been slow to take them down. The company said in a statement that it had recently removed hundreds of Hamas accounts.
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