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Russia Boosts Oil Output Despite Western Pressure – Kommersant
Russia increased oil production in September as major Western countries debated energy price caps over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the data. Last month’s average daily output rose by 1% from August to nearly 1.47 million metric tons, or 10.8 million barrels per day, according…
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Two Including Russian Pilot Killed in Mali Plane Crash
A Russian pilot and a member of ground crew staff died Tuesday when a plane that Russia recently delivered to Mali’s armed forces crashed near the northern city of Gao, an official and the military said. Video provided to AFP by a witness showed an aircraft descending at high speed before crashing in a plume…
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White House Calls Basketball Star’s Russia Court Hearing a ‘Sham’
The White House on Tuesday described an upcoming appeals hearing for jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in Russia as a “sham.” Griner, who was sentenced to nine years prison in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannibis oil, is due to go back to court on October 25. White House…
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Team Navalny Says Relaunching Regional Network to Resist War, Mobilization
Associates of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said they are relaunching his regional political network to fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent “partial” mobilization ordered by President Vladimir Putin. “It’s time for us to restore our network to fight mobilization and war,” said Ivan Zhdanov, the former director of Navalny’s…
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Russian Court Jails U.S. Citizen for Kicking Police Officer
A court in the western Russian city of Voronezh on Tuesday sentenced a 28-year-old U.S. citizen to four years and six months behind bars for kicking a law enforcement official. “This man, who disagreed with lawful actions taken by the authorities, used violence against a police officer who was on duty, kicking him several times,”…
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Kremlin Hails Musk’s Attempt at Ukraine Peace Deal
The Kremlin has hailed U.S. billionaire Elon Musk’s attempt to put forward a peace plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, calling it a “very positive” sign on Tuesday. The world’s wealthiest man outlined his proposal for a peace deal to his 107 million Twitter followers on Monday. Its terms sparked fierce backlash from Ukraine…
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Japan Expels Russian Consul in Tit-for-Tat Move
Japan has ordered a senior Russian official stationed in the country to leave in retaliation for the expulsion of a Japanese diplomat over alleged spying, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The tit-for-tat move came after Tokyo demanded an apology last week from Moscow for detaining a diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok, accusing…
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Russian Pop Legend Pugacheva Hits Back at Pro-War Critics
Russian musical superstar Alla Pugacheva slammed critics of her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, calling supporters of the war “slaves” and “lackeys.” “How lucky am I to be hated by the people I’ve always hated,” Pugacheva wrote in an Instagram post. “The reason is clear,” she added, in an apparent reference to…
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Miss Crimea Fined for Singing Patriotic Ukrainian Song
Russian authorities have fined the winner of this year’s Miss Crimea beauty pageant, Olga Valeyeva, after video emerged of her singing a patriotic Ukrainian song, the state-run TASS news agency reported. Valeyeva appeared alongside a friend in a video posted to Instagram singing “Chervona Kalyna,” a song that has become an anthem of Ukrainian resistance…
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Belarus Strongman Says Pupils Should Harvest Potatoes
Students were routinely roped in for harvesting in the Soviet Union. “With what examples are we bringing up our schoolchildren?” he told a government meeting. “They say it’s exploitation. But how is it exploitation if a person works for five or six hours? It’s a pleasure for the parents and good physical training for children.”…
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Russia Gives Occupied Ukraine Residents 1 Month to Choose Allegiance
Ukrainians who have fled their country’s occupied regions annexed by Moscow have one month to accept or reject Russian citizenship, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin moved to annex Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south on Friday following widely disputed referendums, incurring new Western sanctions. Russian lawmakers are…
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Russia Space Agency Seeking to Extend ISS Participation Past 2024 – Official
Russia’s space agency is discussing with Moscow a continuation of its participation in the International Space Station past 2024, a Roscosmos official said Monday. Sergei Krikalev, head of Russia’s human space flight programs, told reporters that Roscosmos had started “to discuss extending our participation in ISS program with our government and hope to have permission…
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At Least 6 Russian Military Recruits Die Amid Mobilization – Reports
At least six newly mobilized Russian soldiers have died since the start of the country’s “partial” mobilization for the war in Ukraine less than two weeks ago, human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov said. Three of the soldiers died at an army training center in the Sverdlovsk region, local news outlet EAN reported Monday. “I confirm…
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In Photos: Russians Fleeing Putin’s Draft Queue at Georgian Border
Nearly two weeks into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “partial” mobilization for the war in Ukraine, crowds of Russians seeking to escape the draft continue to line up at the country’s southern border with Georgia, which does not require a visa to enter. Over 93,000 Russians have passed through the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint since Sept. 17,…
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Russia Adds State TV Protester Ovsyannikova to Wanted List
Russian authorities on Monday placed Marina Ovsyannikova, the former state TV journalist who denounced the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine on-air, on the federal wanted list. Ovsyannikova, 44, became well-known in Russia and abroad in March after holding up an anti-war sign during a primetime news program on state broadcaster Channel One, where she was employed…
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‘We Cannot Win’: Russia’s Military Veterans Opposing The Ukraine War
After retiring from the Russian Air Force at the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Vitaly Votanovsky got involved in political activism in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. Now, he is a vociferous opponent of the invasion of Ukraine and has been repeatedly detained for photographing the graves of dead soldiers. “Putin destroyed the country’s military mobilization…
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Top Hermitage Curator Quits Museum and Russia
On Sunday Dmitry Ozerkov, a top curator at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, announced in an Instagram post that he had resigned from the museum and left Russia. “I left because I don’t intend to have anything in common with today’s Russia.” Ozerkov worked at the Hermitage for 22 years, first as curator of…
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Chechen Leader Kadyrov Says Sending Teenage Sons to Ukraine War
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Monday he would send his teenage sons, including his 14-year-old son Adam, to fight in Ukraine. “It’s time to prove themselves in a real fight and I only welcome this desire,” Kadyrov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and vocal backer of the war, said in a post on…
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Russia to ‘Consult’ Locals on Annexed Ukraine Regions’ Borders – Kremlin
Russia plans to confer with residents in two Moscow-annexed regions in Ukraine while determining the exact borders of the areas to be integrated into Russia, the Kremlin said Monday. “We are going to continue to consult the populations of these regions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said referring to the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that…
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Elderly Russian Scientist Accused of Treason Dies Under House Arrest
An elderly Russian scientist accused of passing state secrets to China as a guest university lecturer died Sunday under house arrest, his lawyers said. Valery Mitko, the former president of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, was charged with high treason in early 2020 and banned from leaving his home. Russian authorities accused Mitko…
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Wrongful Mobilization Hits 50% in Far East Russian Region
Around half of those recruited into the Russian military from Far Eastern Russia’s Khabarovsk region had been sent home due to wrongful mobilization, the region’s governor said Monday. Russia’s first draft since World War II has sparked protests and criticism, even among Kremlin loyalists, for the chaotic mobilization process. Several regional leaders have reported taking measures…
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Ukraine Says Key Eastern Town ‘Cleared’ of Russian Troops
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Fall of Ukraine Rail Hub Threatens Russian war Gains
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European Heads Condemn Russian Annexations in Ukraine
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Russian Migration Shakes Up Armenian Economy, Society
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Pope Deplores Ukraine Annexations, Calls For End to War
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Russia Suspends Gas to Italy After ‘Problem’ in Austria
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Ukraine Recaptures Key Eastern Town of Lyman
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Where’s the Cheese in Russian Cheese Pancakes?
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Newspeak for the Russian New Economic Policy
Набор слов: word salad In my continuing quest to read Russian media sources and understand what on earth they mean, I’ve made some progress with military matters but am still having trouble with the Russian economy. Actually, everyone is having trouble with the Russian economy, which is why they have developed their own sub-set of…
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Large Russian Force Faces ‘Encirclement’ in Eastern Ukraine
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Putin Eases Citizenship for Foreigners in Russian Army
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U.S. Announces ‘Severe’ Sanctions on Russia Over Annexations
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EU Unveils Stricter Visa Scrutiny for Russians
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Putin Declares Russia’s Annexation of Occupied Ukraine, Lashes Out at West
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Russia’s Patriarch Kirill Ill With Covid – Church
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Attack Kills 25 in Ukraine Ahead of Kremlin Annexation
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Russian Regions Walk Back Ad Hoc Mobilization After Putin Scolding
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Kremlin Set to Annex Four Ukraine Territories at Ceremony
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U.S. Indicts Russian Billionaire Deripaska, 3 Women for Evading Sanctions
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Fourth Nord Stream Leak Spotted, NATO Sees ‘Sabotage’
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2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary E. Sarotte
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2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary Sarotte
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Kremlin Announces Ukraine Annexation Ceremony for Friday
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Russian Troops Face ‘Imminent Defeat’ in East Ukraine Supply Hub
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RN-Uvatneftegaz Plants More Than Three Million Pine Seedlings in Tyumen Region over Five Years
RN-Uvatneftegaz (an enterprise of Rosneft Oil Company’s upstream complex) has planted more than 3 million pine seedlings in Tyumen Region over the past five years.
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Putin’s Ratings Drop on Ukraine Draft
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Apple App Store Pulls Russian Social Network VKontakte
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Russia to Send Conscripts to Ukraine With Little Training, Old Equipment
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Russia Limits Access to Georgia Border Region – Authorities
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Russia Will Not Give Out Passports to Mobilized People – Government
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U.S. Fears Late Detection of Russian ‘Micro-Nuke’ Attack on Ukraine – Politico
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German Journalist Says Refused Entry to Russia Despite Valid Visa
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Explainer: What We Know About the Russia-Europe Nord Stream Pipeline Leak
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Singer, Dancer and Choreographer Boris Moiseyev, Dead at 68
The Word’s Worth Newspeak for the Russian New Economic Policy Набор слов: word salad In my continuing quest to read Russian media sources and understand what on earth they mean, I’ve made some progress…
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Pro-Russia ‘Victory’ in Staged Ukraine Referendums Clears Path to Annexation
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All Turkish Banks Halt Russia’s Mir Payment System – Reports
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Leaders Blame Russia-Europe Pipeline Leaks on Sabotage
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Pro-Russian Officials in Ukraine Claim Victory in Annexation Votes
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Kremlin Proxies Claiming Victory in ‘Sham’ Annexation Votes
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