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Russia Rejects New ‘Monroe Doctrine’ of U.S. in Latin America – Lavrov
The United States’ new foreign policy approach in Latin America goes against international law, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said after talks with his Cuban counterpart. U.S. national security advisor John Bolton has invoked the 1823 policy established by then-President James Monroe to warn other countries, including Russia and Cuba, against interfering in Venezuela.…
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Russia Builds 3 New Churches a Day, Orthodox Leader Says
Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill has claimed that Russia constructs three new churches per day less than two weeks after mass protests erupted over the construction of a new cathedral in Yekaterinburg. The Orthodox Church’s influence has grown in recent years as it has received increased support from the Kremlin. Last year, Patriarch Kirill announced…
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4 Russian Journalists Stabbed Over Refusal to Publish Stalin Article – Reports
At least four journalists in the southern Russian city of Stavropol have been stabbed and wounded, regional authorities and media reports said on Monday. The attack took place in the editorial office of the Russian Communist Party’s Rodina newspaper, the governor of Stavropol region said. The unnamed assailant was taken into custody, he added. The…
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RN-Purneftegaz Finishes Development of Innovative Technology for Oil Production Units
Specialists from RN-Purneftegaz LLC, a subsidiary of Rosneft, have developed and tested an innovative anti-icing technology for oil production units. The novel solution’s feature is the use of an exothermic heating device—a chemical heater consisting of a heating cartridge and a cover that is worn on a well casing or a pipeline section. Exothermic heaters…
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Inmate Dies in Russia After Being Tortured in ‘De Facto Murder,’ Activists Say
An inmate has died in a Russian prison as a result of torture, activists have reported, in what they say was a “de facto murder.” Several leaked videos showing prisoner abuse over the past year have led to a mass outcry over torture and nationwide inspections to root out violence. Alexei Sidyakin, who was sentenced in 2018…
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Russia Takes Baby Steps Toward Integrating the Children of Immigrants
Migrant children in Russian kindergartens are to begin learning the language of their adopted country as the authorities launch a teacher-training program to integrate the kids into society, and tackle a demographic problem. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Central Asia and the Caucasus have traveled to Russia each year since the fall of…
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Russian Official Bodyslams Reporter Asking About Corruption, Faces Jail
A district head in Siberia is under investigation for body-slamming a state-run television journalist during an interview featuring questions about corruption allegations. The Rossia 24 news channel showed Sergei Zaytsev, who heads the Shirinsky district in the republic of Khakasia, snatching the reporter’s microphone and throwing him to the ground. Zaytsev told local media that…
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Major Russian Cities Need 100 Years to Reach Moscow’s Development Level, Study Says
Russian cities with populations of 1 million or greater will need at least 100 years to catch up to Moscow’s level of economic development, according to research by the Strelka Consulting Bureau. The 16 cities contributed almost one-third of Russia’s GDP in 2017, more than half of which came from Moscow, the RBC news website…
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PhosAgro Board Elects Independent Director Xavier Rolet as Chairman
Moscow – PhosAgro (“PhosAgro” or “the Company”) (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, announces that its Board of Directors has elected Independent Director Xavier Rolet as its Chairman. The Board of Directors also re-elected as its Deputy Chairman Andrey G. Guryev, Vice President of the Russian Union…
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Kremlin Rebuffs Call to Release Detained Ukrainian Sailors
The Kremlin on Monday rebuffed a call by an international maritime tribunal for Russia to release 24 Ukrainian sailors, saying the court had no jurisdiction over the strait where Russian security forces captured them. The Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Saturday said Moscow should release the sailors immediately and that both nations…
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Tomb of Figure Behind Russian Serfs’ Emancipation Discovered in St. Petersburg
The tomb of a 19th-century figure behind legislative statutes that led to the freeing of Russia’s serfs has been discovered in St. Petersburg, Interfax reported. Yakov Rostovtsev, a career military man loyal to the imperial family, chaired a commission tasked with drafting rules that led to the great emancipation of 1861. Rostovtsev died a year…
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Russia Launches Nuclear Icebreaker as It Eyes Arctic Future
Russia launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Saturday, part of an ambitious program to renew and expand its fleet of the vessels in order to improve its ability to tap the Arctic’s commercial potential. The ship, dubbed the Ural and which was floated out from a dockyard in St. Petersburg, is one of a trio that when…
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Russia Must Release Detained Ukrainian Sailors – Maritime Tribunal
Moscow must release 24 sailors who were aboard three Ukrainian vessels it intercepted in November as they crossed a strait between Russian-annexed Crimea and southern Russia, an international maritime tribunal said on Saturday. The Russian Navy had captured the Ukrainian sailors and their vessels in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black and Azov seas, on Nov. 25,…
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Third ROSATOM LK-60Ya-class ship launched at Baltic Shipyard
25 th May 2019, St. Petersburg. With the ceremonial launch of the nuclear-powered arctic ice breaker ‘Ural’ today, Russia’s nuclear energy giant, ROSATOM, has completed another step towards ensuring all-year round navigability of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The 173 metre-long ‘Ural’ is equipped with two highly efficient and compact RITM-200 nuclear reactors on board,…
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Putin’s Trust Rating Hits Historic Low — State Poll
Public trust in President Vladimir Putin has dropped to its lowest level since 2006, according to a new state-run poll, another setback for Russia’s president as the country begins to discuss its leadership options after his term limit ends. The results do not pose an immediate problem for Putin, who won a landslide election victory…
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‘To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture’
Eleonory Gilburd’s “To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture,” one of the six books nominated for this year’s Pushkin House Book Prize, takes a radically new look at the Thaw, a period of relative cultural freedom that dates roughly from the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 until the Soviet invasion…
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Dagestan’s Last Tightrope Walkers: A Photo Essay
Dagestan, a mountainous republic in Russia’s North Caucasus, has long been known for its tradition of tightrope walking. Now the preserve of a few devoted practitioners, it is said that the practice was originally born out of the need for mountain peoples to commute between different auls, or villages. As legend goes, locals simply strung…
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U.S. Ambassador Will Boycott St. Petersburg Forum Over Detained Investor
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman will boycott Russia’s showcase economic forum in St. Petersburg in June in response to the house arrest of American investor Michael Calvey, a U.S. Embassy spokesperson told media. Calvey, who was transferred to house arrest last month, faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted on embezzlement charges…
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Russia Warns It Will Take Measures in Response to Norwegian Spy Radar in Arctic
Vardø is a small fishing village on a little island off Norway’s coast in the Barents Sea. A huge military radar facility forms its skyline. In clear weather, if you look east across the water, you can see the shoreline of Russia’s Fishermen Peninsula, a northern appendix of the Kola Peninsula. Officially, the intelligence service…
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Russian Army Introduces New Military Rank
Russia’s armed forces have introduced a new military rank of sergeant major, “experimenting” with 370 of the new recruits in the southern district. Plans to add the new rank as part of Russia’s military reform have been considered since the early 2010s. A sergeant major would undergo grueling recruitment procedures and oversee the military’s sergeant…
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PhosAgro AGM Approves Dividends
Moscow – The Annual General Meeting of shareholders (AGM) of PhosAgro (“the Company”) (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR) has approved a final dividend payment for 2018 of RUB 6.6 billion, which represents RUB 51 per ordinary share (RUB 17 per GDR) from undistributed net profit for 2018. The dividend record date was set as 10 June…
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Russia’s High-Tech Nuclear Submarine Delayed By Design Flaws
The delivery of Russia’s most expensive and technically advanced nuclear submarine to the Russian Navy is being delayed by design flaws, Russian media have reported. “Kazan” (K-561) is the first modernized multipurpose submarine of the Yasen-M class after “Severodvinsk” was handed over to the Northern Fleet in 2013. There are considerable changes in the auxiliary systems on…
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On This Day: Mikhail Sholokhov
Born on May 24,1905, Mikhail Sholokhov was a Russian writer and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature for his massive work on the Cossacks of southern Russia, “And Quiet Flows the Don.” After joining the Red Army at the early age of 15, Sholokhov returned from Moscow in 1925 to his home: a…
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May Governed in ‘Very Difficult’ Time for Russia-U.K. Ties – Kremlin
British Prime Minister Theresa May led her country at a difficult period for its ties with Russia, the Kremlin said after she announced her resignation on Friday. May said she will step down on June 7, ending her three-year tenure following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in 2016 and deepening the Brexit crisis.…
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Russia and Congo have signed the intergovernmental agreement of the cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy
During an official visit of President of the Republic of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, on May 23, 2019 in Moscow the Intergovernmental Agreement concerning the cooperation in the field of the peaceful use of atomic energy was signed. Director General of ROSATOM Aleksey Likhachev signed the document for the Russian party. For the Republic of…
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Russian Police Official Decries Falling Living Standards for Police, Declares $600K Salary
Russia’s deputy chief of police declared an income of 38 million rubles ($588,000) two days after complaining that law enforcement officers’ living standards are falling. Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Gostev’s income grew tenfold between 2017 and 2018, according to declarations published on Thursday, making him the richest police officer in Russia. Police spokeswoman Irina Volk…
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Ex-U.S. Marine Held in Russia Says His Espionage Case Is Politically Motivated
A former U.S. Marine held in Moscow on suspicion of spying said on Friday he had been threatened by a Russian investigator and harassed in custody, accusations that added to strains in U.S.-Russian relations. Paul Whelan, who holds U.S., British, Canadian and Irish passports, was detained in a Moscow hotel room on Dec. 28 and accused…
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Oleg Vakhovsky put in charge of Gazprom Transgaz Surgut
Release May 24, 2019, 13:45 Oleg Vakhovsky has been appointed Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Surgut. Oleg Vakhovsky was born in 1971 in Artyomovsk, Donetsk Region. He graduated from the Gubkin State Academy of Oil and Gas, majoring in Oil and Gas Field Development and Operation, and received an MBA in Human Resource Management from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the…
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Dreams, Death and Beyond at Zverev Center of Modern Art
Dreams, death, the subconscious, the gap between what’s alive and what isn’t. These are some of the themes explored in subCONSCIOUS, an exhibition of art by five Moscow artists working with paint, photography, poetry, video and illustration. In different media, Ilmira Bolotyan, Polina Gisich, Liza Neklessa, Saida Sattarova and Jane (Zhenya) Sharvina all ask questions…
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Russia Plans to Import Polluted Oil Back From Belarus
Russia plans to take back around 1 million tons of contaminated oil from Belarus, cleaning up the Druzhba export pipeline section leading to Poland and Germany, four industry sources familiar with the plan told Reuters. The plan was discussed at talks in Warsaw on Thursday between Russian, Belarussian and European companies. Another roughly 1 million…
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Nationalist Activists Harass LGBT Film Fest in Moscow
Pro-Kremlin activists tried to shut down the opening of an LGBT film festival in Moscow on Thursday. Two fringe nationalist groups called the National Liberation Movement (NOD) and SERB harassed attendees and poured ammonia on an employee of the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, organizers said. The two groups are known for attacks on opposition activists…
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Russia to Send Military ‘Specialists’ to Republic of Congo
Russia has signed a bilateral agreement to send military “specialists” to the Republic of Congo to advise their counterparts and repair Soviet equipment in a move that further increases Moscow’s footprint on the continent. The Republic of Congo is the latest sub-Saharan African nation where Russia has stepped up its presence recently. Since Western nations…
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Russia Beat U.S. in Hockey World Championship to Reach Semis
Ice hockey heavyweights Russia and Canada reached the world championship semi-finals after thrilling wins while holders Sweden crashed out after a 5-4 sudden-death overtime defeat by traditional rivals Finland on Thursday. On a day of enthralling action in Bratislava and Kosice, the Czech Republic were the only side to enjoy a smooth ride into the last four…
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Okroshka: Summer’s Simple Pleasure
Late spring and early summer are all about change and transition. Glass windows are swapped out for screens, kids flee school for summer holidays, and wool sweaters and coats take their annual trip to the dry cleaner. In Russia, for many the summer months mean the slower, simpler life of the dacha, where there are…
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Russia to Arm Police With AR Face Recognition Glasses By 2020
Police officers in large Russian cities will be able to identify criminals using face recognition glasses by 2020, the head of state-owned industrial conglomerate Rostec said Thursday. The augmented-reality (AR) glasses will use technology that helped catch more than 180 criminals during the football World Cup in Russia last year, Sergei Chemezov said at a…
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Drugs Found in Arrested Russian Ex-Minister’s Apartment, Investigators Claim
Russian investigators say they have found drugs in the apartment of detained former minister Mikhail Abyzov, Interfax reported on Thursday. Abyzov, 46, faces up to 20 years behind bars on suspicion of embezzling $62 million. The former minister of a since-disbanded Open Government Affairs post denies the charges. A forensic analysis showed that a “narcotic substance”…
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Russia Removed 2M Tons of Tainted Europe-Bound Oil by Rail and Sea
Russia is using rail, storage tanks and ships to remove contaminated oil from an export pipeline, and has so far extracted around 2 million tons of the tainted oil — or over a third of volumes hit, industry sources and data showed. A month ago, Russia had to stop exports via the Druzhba pipeline to Poland…
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Putin Awards FIFA’s Infantino State Medal for 2018 World Cup
FIFA President Gianni Infantino thanked Russia on Thursday for hosting the “best World Cup ever” as President Vladimir Putin presented him with a state award for his role in making last year’s tournament possible. In a Kremlin ceremony broadcast on television, Putin thanked “all those who helped to make this dream come to life,” including the…
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Russian Oil CEO’s Son Named Country’s Richest Heir for $21.8Bln Fortune – Forbes
The son of LUKoil chief executive Vagit Alekperov is Russia’s richest heir with an expected inheritance of $21.8 billion, according to rankings published by Forbes Russia on Thursday. Forbes estimates that the 48 ranked sons and daughters of Russian tycoons are set to inherit a combined $238 billion from their parents. Last year, the business…
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Russian School Lowers Passing Grade for Boys, Sparking Outrage
An elite school in central Russia has drawn national attention after it lowered passing grades for boys because its headmaster says girls are better students and boys grow up to lead the country. A bulletin posted on the wall of the school in the city of Perm showed that the passing grade was set at…
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Dane Jailed by Russia in Jehovah’s Witnesses Crackdown Loses Appeal — Spokesman
A Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses jailed for six years in Russia after being found guilty of organizing a banned extremist group lost his court appeal on Thursday, a spokesman for the group said. Armed police detained Dennis Christensen, a builder, in May 2017 at a prayer meeting in Oryol, some 200 miles (320…
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10 Artists Who Were Victims of Repressions, Remembered in Street Art
Nikolai Gumilyov. Vsevolod Meyerhold. Boris Pilnyak. Osip Mandelstam. Alexander Vvedensky. Pavel Florensky. Gustav Shpet. Nikolai Klyuev. Mikhail Koltsov. Daniil Kharms. All famous Russian artists who fell victim to repressions in the Soviet gulag between the 1920s and the 1940s. As part of a new exhibition by the Russian street artist Zoom, portraits of the 10…
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Russian Support for LGBT Rights Hits 14-Year High, Poll Says
Nearly half of Russians support equal rights for members of the LGBT community, marking the highest level of support in 14 years, according to the independent Levada Center pollster. Since Russia banned the display of “gay propaganda” to minors in 2013, authorities have refused to authorize gay pride events across the country and polls have…
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Russia Sees Libya Stalemate as Strongman’s Assault Stalls
Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar’s almost two-month assault on the capital, Tripoli, has stalled and he can’t take the city, according to a Russian special envoy to the oil-rich North African state. “It was absolutely predictable that Haftar would get bogged down,” said Lev Dengov, who forecast a lengthy stand-off. The leader of the self-styled…
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Russian Church-Building Protester Files European Human Rights Suit
A resident of the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has filed a lawsuit with Europe’s human rights court for his detention during rallies against the construction of a church on park grounds. Daniil Pugin was one of dozens detained amid spontaneous and unauthorized protests at the proposed construction site last week. A state-sponsored poll published Wednesday…
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Venezuela Turns to Russia, Cuba and China in Health Crisis
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government is increasingly turning to allies Cuba, China and Russia to offset a health crisis caused by U.S. sanctions, a minister said on Wednesday. Venezuelans have been suffering dire shortages of medicines and health equipment for several years as it has spiralled into economic chaos and political conflict. The opposition blames…
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Gas Supply to Domestic Market. Executing Russian Regions Gasification Program Press Conference held
Listen to audio For Gazprom’s Press Conferences audio broadcast please dial: +7 495 719-35-77 (Russian) +7 495 719-30-00 (English) Materials May 22, 2019, 02:30 pm (Moscow time) [embedded content] Participants: Gennady Sukhov, Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department, Gazprom; Sergey Gustov, Director General, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz.
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PhosAgro Welcomes EU-wide Cap on Cadmium Levels in Fertilizers
Moscow – PhosAgro (“the Company”) (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of the world’s leading vertically-integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, welcomes the final decision taken at the level of the European Parliament and the European Council to limit the sale of phosphate-based fertilizers containing high levels of heavy metals everywhere in the EU from 2022 and to…
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Russian Soldiers Say They’re Willing to Shoot Protesters, Serviceman Claims
Russian soldiers in Siberia have told their supervisors that they are willing to open fire on protesters if ordered, a special forces serviceman has claimed in an interview. The soldier made the statement in a video interview published Tuesday by opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s office in the Siberian city of Tyumen. In the video, the…
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74% of Locals Oppose Controversial Church in Russia’s Yekaterinburg – Poll
A majority of residents in Russia’s fourth-largest city of Yekaterinburg oppose the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in a popular riverside park, according to a state-run poll released on Wednesday. Thousands of residents took to the streets last week to protest plans to replace the park with a replica of a cathedral demolished in the…
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Russia and Vietnam signed an MoU on the implementation of Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology
MOSCOW, May 22, 2019 – ROSATOM and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam signed a Memorandum on the implementation of Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology (CNST) in Vietnam. The document was signed by the Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev and the Minister of Science and Technology of…
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Russians Most Opposed to Having LGBT Neighbors – Poll
Russians are more likely to oppose having an LGBT neighbor than a neighbor from another social group, according to a new survey released by the independent Levada Center pollster. Recent public polling has shown surging anti-LGBT sentiment in the years since Russia banned “homosexual propaganda” among minors in 2013. Respondents to the survey released Wednesday…
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Russia Says Syrian Troops Repelled Three Big Militant Attacks in Syria’s Idlib
Syrian government troops on Wednesday morning repelled three big attacks by militants in Syria’s Idlib province, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It said in a statement that 500 Nusra front militants, seven tanks and about 30 pickups mounted with heavy machine guns had taken part in the attacks. The ministry said that Syrian militants based in…
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Russian Government Rejects Proposal to Fine Officials for Insulting Citizens
The Russian government has rejected a bill that would have introduced fines for officials who exhibit disrespect toward citizens, weeks after lawmakers passed a bill that introduced fines for disrespecting the authorities. Communist lawmakers introduced the legislation in February, seeking to fine and suspend civil servants for humiliating voters. Around the same time, another bill that…
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U.S. Fighter Jets Again Intercept Russian Bombers Off Alaska
U.S. fighter jets intercepted several Russian bombers in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday, in the fourth and fifth such incursions this year, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday. “The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and at no time entered U.S. or Canadian sovereign airspace,” the North American Aerospace Defense Command…
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Russian Senator Stripped of Mandate Amid Murder Investigations
Russian senators have unanimously voted to unseat their colleague who faces life in prison on aggravated murder charges months after his dramatic arrest in the Federation Council’s chambers. Rauf Arashukov, 32, was arrested during a session of the upper house of parliament after attempting to flee the chamber on Jan. 30. Arashukov, who represented the…
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U.S. Sanctions Russian Arms Makers Over Alleged Iran, N. Korea and Syria Dealings
The United States has sanctioned two Russian arms manufacturers and a missile training center for allegedly violating international arms control restrictions on exports to Iran, North Korea and Syria. The move was a response to the Russian entities’ transfer of restricted goods, services and technologies to the countries in violation of a U.S. law, a State…
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Russian Radio-Electronic Shield Now Covers the Arctic, Officials Say
New systems for radio-electronic warfare installed along Russia’s Arctic coast are capable of jamming foreign ships and aircraft from thousands of kilometers away, Russian military officials have been cited as saying by the Izvestia tabloid. The Northern Fleet has completed its new Center for Radio-Electronic Warfare, military representatives told Izvestia. The center includes two Murmansk-BN systems, as…
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Ukraine Considers Referendum on Possible Russian Peace Deal
Ukraine may submit any preliminary peace deal agreed with Russia to the Ukrainian people for a referendum, the new head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration told Ukrainian television Tuesday. Ukrainian troops are fighting Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass region in a conflict that has killed 13,000 people since 2014. Ukraine also wants Russia to return…
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2 Killed in Counter-Terror Operation in Western Russia
Security forces have killed two militants in western Russia suspected of planning a terrorist act, authorities said Wednesday. The suspects in Vladimir region refused to lay down arms and opened fire on FSB officers, Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) said in a statement. “They were neutralized by return fire in the ensuing shootout,” the statement…