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  • American arrested in Moscow for taking cow for a walk

    American arrested in Moscow for taking cow for a walk

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    A U.S. citizen was arrested for walking a cow through Red Square in Moscow, according to local media.

    Alicia Day, “who is a vegetarian and animal rights activist, was walking on Red Square … using a calf as visual propaganda and shouting the slogan ‘animals are not food,’” a judge at Moscow’s Tverskoy district court was quoted as saying.

    Day was arrested on Tuesday for participating in an unsanctioned protest. She also allegedly resisted arrest, the court said, and was fined 20,000 rubles (€261).

    “I bought the calf [named Doctor Cow] so that it wouldn’t be eaten. I decided to take him to such a beautiful place and show him the country,” Day told the TASS news agency.

    “I just wanted to show Doctor Cow the Red Square,” the vegan activist said in her defense, adding that she didn’t regret her actions.

    The New Jersey-born vegan activist made headlines in 2019 when she was living in London and kept a pet pig in her flat, spoiling it with trips to restaurants and sharing baths with it.

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  • Moscow orders Latvian ambassador to leave Russia within 2 weeks

    Moscow orders Latvian ambassador to leave Russia within 2 weeks

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    Moscow orders Latvian ambassador to leave Russia within 2 weeks

    Moscow: The Latvian ambassador to Russia, Maris Riekstins, should leave Russia within two weeks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

    Latvian Charge d’Affaires Dace Rutka was summoned to the Ministry in protest over Latvia’s decision to lower the level of Russian-Latvian diplomatic relations, the Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

    Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said on Monday his country recalled its ambassador from Russia and downgraded diplomatic relations with Russia to the level of charge d’affaires as of February 24. Rinkevics said the decision was made in a show of solidarity with its neighbour Estonia, Xinhua news agency reported.

    The Russian Foreign Ministry called Latvia’s justification of its decision completely unacceptable. It said that the only way the Baltic states had shown solidarity was through their “total Russophobia” and their efforts to promote hostility against Russia.

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