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Updates throughout. A Moscow court on Friday ordered a French citizen accused of gathering Russian military information to be held in pre-trial detention, in the latest case of a Western citizen being detained in Russia. Laurent Vinatier, a 47-year-old who works for a Swiss conflict mediation NGO, was arrested on Thursday and officially charged with breaching Russia’s “foreign agents” law, charges which carry up to five years in jail. Vinatier, who was held in a metal cage at the back of the courtroom, accepted the accusations against him. “I have accepted that I am guilty,” he told the court….

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