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Russian authorities have launched a fresh investigation targeting a former teacher in Russia’s western region of Oryol who was convicted of inciting ethnic hatred and sacked from his job for writing a pro-Ukraine poem.

Russia’s state-run Interfax news agency quoted Aleksandr Korgin, an official in Oryol’s regional Investigative Committee, as saying that the investigation targets Aleksandr Byvshev.

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