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Russian court fines influential monk who denies virus exists

by Associated Press
| July 20, 2020 1:06 PM

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday ordered an influential monk, who has denied the existence of the new coronavirus and urged his followers to ignore government lockdown orders, to pay a fine for fomenting enmity through his sermons.

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