
The Moscow Times: Russia on Friday confirmed 34,690 Covid-19 infections and 1,235 deaths.
RFE/RL: Another associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny is going into exile amid an ongoing crackdown against the defunct organizations associated with the Kremlin critic that were labeled extremist earlier this year. Sergei Boyko is a member of the Novosibirsk city council and former head of Navalny’s network of regional campaign groups in the Siberian city until a court labeled it extremist this year, effectively outlawing it.
The Moscow Times: More than 50 people have died Thursday after smoke filled a Siberian coal mine in the latest disaster to hit Russia’s mining industry.