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Irish citizen held in Russia for alleged anti-Russian phone texts

Irish citizen with dual Russian nationality detained in Russia over phone messages, wife says An Irish citizen with dual Russian nationality has been detained in Russia since August after authorities found messages on his phone that expressed anti-Russian sentiment, according to his Ukrainian wife, who is appealing to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs for help. Daria Petrenko, who fled Ukraine at the start of the war and now lives in Claregalway, Co Galway, said her husband, 49-year-old Dmitri Simbaev, was stopped…