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The overhaul of the country’s bomb shelter network comes against the backdrop of Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling and the growing militarization of daily life as the fighting in Ukraine creeps toward Russia’s heartland regions.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed “the most sincere condolences” and offered aid to his Turkish and Syrian counterparts after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed hundreds in both countries early Monday.
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Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin posted a video on Monday that he claimed showed him in a jet that had just bombed the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut.
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New EU sanctions mean that Moscow will have to find new markets for its oil exports to fund the war in Ukraine.
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Plans for Tbilisi to purchase 44 Russian subway cars worth almost $50 million have met with outrage in Georgia, where doing any business with its northern neighbor has become highly controversial.
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Journalist Veronika Belotserkovskaya was found guilty of spreading “false information” about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for an Instagram post about Russia's shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol and the massacre of civilians in Bucha.
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The checks and repairs began after the invasion of Ukraine and remain ongoing
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The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a strong supporter of President Vladimir Putin, worked for Soviet intelligence while living in Switzerland in the 1970s, Swiss newspapers reported, citing declassified archives.
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“We share the sorrow and pain of those who lost their relatives and loved ones,” Putin told the Turkish and Syrian leaders after a devastating earthquake killed hundreds in both countries.
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Russia’s lower-house State Duma is expected to form a task force next week to examine ways to use the Criminal Code to punish prominent exiled Russians for their dissent.
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Abubakar Yangulbaev's offer to give himself up to Kadyrov in exchange for the release of his mother — who has been held in a Chechen prison for more than a year — has attracted an unprecedented amount of public attention.
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The Moscow Times has compiled some of the most interesting data from 2022 to create five graphs that shed light on the state of the Russian economy.
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Ever sensitive to the whims of President Vladimir Putin, the presidential administration is increasingly keen to reward veterans of the conflict.
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Ukraine fought off a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, its leaders said, as it endured a wave of shelling in the disputed Donetsk region.
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Many of those taking part in the “flower protests” said that remembering the Dnipro victims helped them feel like part of a broader anti-war movement.
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One top official who worked on the previous mobilization campaign said that the government is likely to seek to replenish forces gradually.
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The two were returned to Ukraine authorities as part of a wider exchange, in which Kyiv got 116 prisoners and Russia 63.
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What is better on a cold winter's day that hot, red, spicy borshch? And a great story about how this soup from the south conquered the northern Russian navy. Read on from Olga and
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#OpEd Russians will soon come to understand that their enemy is not Ukraine or the collective West, but rather carbon dioxide emissions and environmental degradation, writes.
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As the war in Ukraine neared its one-year mark, Russian officials and citizens staged a number of events this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Speaking at a ceremony in Volgograd to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, President Vladimir Putin said that it was "unbelievable, but true" that his country once again found itself being threatened by German tanks
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Western allies pledged precision rockets and missile systems to Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelensky called for sophisticated weapons to help retain control of the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut.
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Activist Arshak Makichyan and his family were stripped of their Russian citizenship — the only one they hold — in October last year. A Moscow region court upheld that ruling this week.
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In the North Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, the memorial consisted of just a handful of red carnations and a child’s toy
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Hundreds of both Russian and Ukrainian troops have been reportedly killed or injured per day as fighting flared for the eastern city of Bakhmut, the longest and bloodiest battle of Russia’s invasion.
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A Moscow court has sentenced the head of a prominent Islamic publishing house to 17 years in prison on charges of financing a terrorist organization.
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The exiled Russian journalists “have formed a ‘second Runet’ free of state censorship.”
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The EU and Kyiv backed plans to set up an international prosecution office in The Hague to help investigate Russia for the "crime of aggression" in Ukraine.
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“It's not for the dead, it's for the living,” said one man who laid flowers. “We need to know that we are not alone.”
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“The citizenship case against me and my family is horrific, the government shouldn’t have the power to cancel activists’ families' lives,” said
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Influential Islamic scholars and community figures have called the charges against Aslambek Ezhaev politically motivated.
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Russia on Friday said it will nationalize "foreign" assets in annexed Crimea — including those with Ukraine-linked ownership — and funnel some of the funds to support people fighting in Ukraine.
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Russia is pursuing a strategy of sending waves of poorly trained recruits into the line of fire in order to wear down Ukraine's forces and ammunition, Western officials told The New York Times
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At least 1,000 Russian journalists have fled their country in the nearly 12 months since Moscow invaded Ukraine, forming “a ‘second Runet’ free of state censorship,” according to a new report.
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A Russian village on the border with Ukraine came under an apparent missile attack 48 hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to prevent cross-border shelling, a regional official said early Friday.
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North Korea could send hundreds of its Russia-based military and police officers to eastern Ukraine as part of a deal with Moscow to involve them in reconstruction efforts, the news site Daily NK reported Thursday, citing an unnamed source in Russia.
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Kyiv's human rights commissioner on Thursday accused Russians of kidnapping his country's children and selling them for sex.
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