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Spotify halts streaming service in Russia.

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New legislation in Russia making it illegal to report anything that discredits the Russian military prompted the decision. Earlier this month the Swedish audio streaming and media platform shut down its offices in Russia over its war in Ukraine.

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The Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin sits down with Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, to discuss Ukraine’s biggest wartime corruption scandal, which involves people from President Volodymyr Zelensky's circle and several government officials.

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