News Feed Brief summaries of major developments throughout the week: lawmakers move toward total ban on ‘gay propaganda,’ Ukraine strikes behind enemy lines, and Russia’s ‘troll king’ hides — Meduza – Meduza

👺 Russia’s troll king purges more search results: St. Petersburg oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin has again availed himself of Russia’s “right to be forgotten” (enacted in 2016 to allow Russian citizens to force Internet search engines to remove hyperlinks to “illegal, inaccurate, or irrelevant information”). Prigozhin is best known internationally for administering “troll factories” that attempt political manipulation, media groups that propagate pro-Kremlin messages, and the Wagner private military group (which has fielded mercenaries in Syria, Africa, and Ukraine). When searching for these connections today, Yandex warns users that some results have been hidden as required by the “right to be forgotten” law. Instead, the top hits redirect the public to Prigozhin’s interviews with the same propaganda outlets he controls.