Iran’s Guidance Patrol is under fire after protests across the country. NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with an Iranian scholar Roxane Farmanfarmaian about the history of the controversial institution. Source link
Voting is done for the so-called referendums in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Preliminary results show a landslide victory for Moscow. Ukraine and its allies have dismissed the voting as a sham. Source link
Legislation introduced yesterday in the Duma — the lower house of the Russian parliament — would classify media content determined to be “promoting” LGBTQ relations as “propaganda” under federal law. The bill would broaden a controversial 2013 law banning the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations” to minors, which is widely referred to as the “gay … Read more