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Documents signed to expand cooperation between Gazprom and Russian industrial enterprises

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October 10, 2024, 17:30 A number of documents to expand cooperation between Gazprom and Russian industrial enterprises were signed today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The documents are aimed at strengthening the potential of Russian manufacturers and increasing the production of advanced products for the fuel and energy complex. Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Evraev, Governor…

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AP Investigates Russia’s Recruitment of African Women to Make Drones: What We Learned

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A new investigation by the Associated Press details how Russia has lured dozens of young African women to produce drones for its invasion of Ukraine. Drawn to Russia by promises of plane tickets, education, higher salaries and a “European” adventure, the young women instead end up at a drone plant in the Alabuga Special Economic…

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Dmitry Krymov’s Mad, Mad World

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Riga was the first stop on a tour of a new play written and directed by Dmitry Krymov starring just two actors: Maxim Sukhanov and Chulpan Khamatova. It is called “Notes of the Mad,” invoking the tradition of literary works about mad Russians that began two centuries ago with Nikolai Gogol. The premiere began with…

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Russia Says Struck Ukraine’s Patriot Air Defense System Launchers

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Russia said Thursday its missiles had struck two launchers of a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine. Kyiv is reliant on Western air defense systems, particularly Patriots, to protect itself from the barrage of Russian missiles and has been calling for more deliveries. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces struck “two Patriot launcher…

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Putin Expands Russia’s Visa-Free Regime for Georgians

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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Thursday to extend Russia’s visa-free regime for Georgian citizens, as the countries have drawn closer in recent years. In May 2023, Putin lifted a flight ban and introduced a 90-day visa-free regime for Georgian citizens.  His latest edict abolishes the 90-day limit and the need to obtain a work…

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Kremlin Says Trump Sent Putin Covid Tests as Part of International Cooperation

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The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed claims that then-U.S. President Donald Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid tests but said it was part of an international exchange at the start of the pandemic. U.S. journalist Bob Woodward wrote in a book, “War,” published Tuesday, that Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Putin despite a…

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Kremlin Rejects ‘Fake’ Report North Koreans Fighting in Ukraine

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The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed a claim by Seoul that North Korean soldiers were likely to be fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine. “This seems like yet another fake news story,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented to journalists without elaborating. Ukraine’s Kyiv Post reported Friday that six North Korean military officers had been killed in…

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Putin Relieves Russian Ambassador to U.S. With No Replacement Named

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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Thursday relieving Anatoly Antonov from his post as Moscow’s ambassador to the United States amid historic lows in U.S.-Russia relations. Antonov, 69, had headed the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington since 2017 and returned to Russia over the weekend. A staunch supporter of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, Antonov said in…

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Consumer Goods Giant Unilever Finally Exits Russia

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British consumer goods giant Unilever on Thursday completed the sale of Unilever Russia, finally joining other multinationals in exiting the country following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Unilever said in a statement that it had offloaded the subsidiary to Arnest Group, a Russian manufacturer of perfume, cosmetics and household products, for an undisclosed…

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U.S. Confident Ukraine Can Hold Parts of Russia’s Kursk Region ‘for Months’ – Bloomberg

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Ukrainian forces will be able to hold onto territory captured during their incursion into western Russia’s Kursk region for several months or longer, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a U.S. assessment shared by senior American officials. Ukraine launched its offensive into the border region on Aug. 6, claiming to control 100 settlements and almost 1,300 square…

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Toll From Russian Strike on Odesa Rises to 8

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The toll from a Russian ballistic missile strike on port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region rose to eight dead and nine wounded, authorities said Thursday. The attack on Wednesday struck a civilian container ship flying the flag of Panama, according to the region’s Governor Oleh Kiper. “The death toll as a result of yesterday’s…

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Kadyrov Declares ‘Blood Feud’ Against Russian Lawmakers in First Remarks on Wildberries Shootout

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has declared a “blood feud” against three federal lawmakers from neighboring North Caucasus republics in his first comments on last month’s deadly shooting outside the Moscow headquarters of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries. Kadyrov has vowed to help Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Wildberries CEO Tatiana Kim — Russia’s wealthiest woman…

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Russia Says Shot Down Ukrainian Drone Barrage

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Russia’s military said on Thursday that it had shot down a barrage of 92 Ukrainian drones overnight, most of them over the country’s southwest. Russia reports shooting down Ukrainian drones over its territory on a nearly daily basis, but usually in smaller numbers. Kyiv said it was carrying out the strikes, which often target energy…

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Crimea Oil Depot Burns 3 Days After Ukraine Strike

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A major oil terminal in the city of Feodosia in Russian-annexed Crimea was still burning three days after Ukrainian missile strikes, media reported Wednesday. On Monday, Ukraine’s military claimed its missile forces had carried out a successful strike on the Feodosia offshore oil terminal, which it called the largest on the Crimean peninsula. Russian-installed authorities…

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ROSATOM took part in the International Youth Festival 2024 in Uganda

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Outstanding leaders and experts from 45 countries shared their experience during the festival events. Speakers at the opening ceremony and panel discussions included Sidronius Okaasai Opolot, Uganda’s Minister of State for Energy; Judith Obina Okumu, Private Secretary to H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda in charge of Political Affairs; Davis Akampurira, Advisor to…

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ROSATOM Deputy Director General Nikolay Spassky held a meeting with Burkina Faso Minister of Energy, Mines and Quarries Yacouba Zabre Gouba

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On October 9, 2024, Nikolay Spassky, Deputy Director General for International Relations of the ROSATOM, held a meeting with Yacouba Zabre Gouba, Minister of Energy, Mines and Quarries of Burkina Faso. The delegation arrived in Moscow to participate in the forum “Economic Days of Burkina Faso in Russia”. As part of the meeting, a detailed…

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Russian Football Team Left Without Opponents for International Break

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The Russian national men’s football team will not play any friendly matches during the October international break, the Russian Football Union (RFU) told reporters Wednesday.  Russia had been in negotiations with Pakistan to play a friendly match this month, but Pakistani outlet Geo News reported that the sides could not come to an agreement. Russia reportedly…

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An Ark for Russian Emigres: The Project Helping Anti-War Russians Find Their Footing Abroad

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Natalia Kondal, a Russian citizen with Ukrainian roots from the Ural Mountain city of Yekaterinburg, was forced to leave Russia shortly after the start of the war against Kyiv amid intensified repression from the Kremlin. As she looked to get back on her feet in Europe, she turned to Kovcheg, an organization that helps Russian…

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Russia to U.S.: Worry About Diddy, Not Us

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The United States should “redirect” its efforts toward investigating the criminal sex ring allegations against rapper Diddy instead of seeking to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in an interview.  Maria Zakharova’s remarks came in response to bombshell federal U.S. racketeering and sex trafficking charges as well as a…

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Volunteer at Site of Nemtsov’s Assassination Jailed 12 Years for Aiding Ukraine – Mediazona

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A Russian military court has sentenced a volunteer at the makeshift memorial to slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov to 12 years in prison for his involvement with the Ukrainian military, the independent news website Mediazona reported Wednesday. Yevgeny Mishchenko, who was among those who kept watch at a Moscow bridge near the Kremlin where Nemtsov…

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Over 500M Euros of Frozen Russian Assets in Netherlands Released – Reports

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More than half a billion euros in frozen Russian assets held by Dutch banks and other financial institutions appear to have been released, De Telegraaf reported. The newspaper cited a report sent by Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp to the lower house of parliament which said that 97 million euros in private frozen Russian assets were held…

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Russia Says Two Kursk Region Villages Recaptured From Ukraine

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Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday it had retaken two villages in its Kursk region that were captured by Ukraine in a surprise offensive. Russia has rarely claimed any recaptured territory since Ukraine launched its offensive into the border region on Aug. 6. The ministry said in a statement that Russian troops “continued offensive operations, during…

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Chechnya’s Kadyrov Speaks Out Against Russia’s ‘Medieval’ Migration Laws

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The head of the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov condemned a toughening of Russia’s migration laws in a social media post published Monday. “If migration policy is to be changed, then not in such a disgusting way, when [officials] frantically pounce on all non-locals who come to their attention,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram. …

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Russia Sentences Freed Ex-U.S. Marine to 14.5 Years in Absentia on Mercenary Charges

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A Russian court has sentenced ex-U.S. Marine Trevor Reed to 14 and a half years in absentia on charges of fighting against Russia in Ukraine as a mercenary, authorities said Wednesday. Reed was previously in 2020 sentenced to nine years in Russian prison on charges of assaulting a police officer while drunk at a Moscow…

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Russia’s Army Recruits Are Increasingly Older, Less Capable Men – Vyorstka

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The Russian military is seeing an influx of older contract soldiers who are largely seen as detrimental to its war effort in Ukraine, the investigative news outlet Vyorstka reported Wednesday, citing anonymous military and parliamentary sources. Volunteer fighters aged 45 and over now make up half of new recruits in Moscow, a senior Mayor’s Office source…

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Bodies of Wagner Fighters Killed in Mali Repatriated to Russia

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The bodies of Wagner Group mercenaries killed in fighting in Mali this summer have been returned to Russia, the state-run TASS news agency reported Wednesday, citing a Russian officers’ organization. Russian mercenaries suffered heavy losses in two-day fighting against Tuareg rebels near Mali’s border with Algeria in July in what experts called one of the deadliest…

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Russia’s Tax Revenue From Occupied Ukrainian Regions Tops 2023 Levels

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Russia collected 118 billion rubles ($1.2 billion) in taxes from occupied Ukrainian territories in January-September 2024, surpassing tax revenues from these regions in all of 2023, the RBC news website reported Wednesday. Russia said it annexed southern and eastern Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions in September 2022 following widely disputed referendums despite not fully…

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Kremlin Denies Trump, Putin Spoke 7 Times Since 2021

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The Kremlin on Wednesday denied a claim in a new book that Republican candidate Donald Trump may have spoken to President Vladimir Putin seven times since he left the White House. “No, that is not the case,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russian media outlet RBC as saying when asked about the specific…

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Russia Bans Messaging Platform Discord

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Russia’s telecoms watchdog on Tuesday announced that it was banning the social media platform Discord for violating the country’s laws, signaling the latest move by authorities to tighten control over the internet. Access to Discord was being “restricted due to the violation of requirements of Russian legislation” pertaining to “preventing the use of messaging for…

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Ukraine Claims Strike on Depot Storing North Korean Ammo

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Kyiv said Wednesday it had struck a Russian arms depot in the border region of Bryansk that was storing hardware and ammo including munitions supplied to Moscow by North Korea. Ukrainian forces have in recent months occupied swathes of Russia’s border Kursk region and have stepped up attacks inside Russia, mainly targeting energy facilities. The…

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Trump Secretly Sent Putin Rare Covid Tests at Pandemic’s Height, Book Reveals – WP

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Ex-U.S. President Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid a domestic shortage at the height of the pandemic in 2020, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing its associate editor Bob Woodward’s upcoming book. Putin, a known germophobe who was widely said to have taken extra precautionary measures including extended self-isolation…

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U.K. Sanctions Russian Army Commander Over Ukraine Chemical Weapons Claims

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The U.K. government on Tuesday sanctioned the chemical and biological arm of Russia’s Armed Forces and its commander Igor Kirillov over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. Britain and the United States have accused Russia of using the toxic agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The…

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EU Approves Sanctions Framework Against ‘Hybrid Threats’

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The European Union approved a new sanctions framework on Tuesday to target individuals responsible for actions the body sees as “destabilizing,” the EU said in a press release.  The statement says that the new framework will allow the EU to “target individuals and entities engaged in actions and policies by the government of the Russian…

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​​Moscow Luxury Housing Sales Hit Record $1.8Bln in 2024 – Vedomosti

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Luxury housing sales in the Russian capital reached a record-setting 174 billion rubles ($1.8 billion) in January-September 2024, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday, citing research by real estate company NF Group. The 1,270 luxury apartments sold in Moscow so far this year were up from 860 sales worth 110 billion rubles ($1.14 billion) in…

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Russia’s Youngest Political Prisoner, 16, Says Beaten by Cellmate

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A 16-year-old Russian schoolboy considered the country’s youngest political prisoner said he has been subjected to beatings by his cellmates in the Moscow detention center where he’s currently being held, the independent Mediazona news website reported Tuesday. Arseniy Turbin, who is serving five years in a juvenile colony for allegedly attempting to join the Freedom of…

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Russian Opposition Activist Slits Wrists in Court -Rights Group

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A Russian opposition activist slit her wrists in an act of courtroom protest in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Tuesday, a women’s rights group said. The activist, Olga Suvorova, “cut her veins in protest in the courtroom” and was taken to hospital, the Soft Power women’s rights movement wrote on Telegram. The group posted…

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Five Russians Killed Climbing Mountain in Nepal – Tourism Official

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Five Russian mountaineers were killed while climbing in Nepal, a tourism official said Tuesday, two days after the team lost contact while on the world’s seventh-highest mountain, Dhaulagiri. Rakesh Gurung, from Nepal’s tourism department, said the team went missing late on the evening of Oct. 6 during an attempt to summit the 8,167-meter (26,795 feet)…

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Theatre Director Sofia Kapkova: ‘I Wanted to Create a Play That Addresses the Present’

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Sofia Kapkova, the founder and former director of DFC (Documentary Film Center) in Moscow and the CEO of the MART Foundation which organizes tours of Russian theatre and music abroad, left Russia for the U.S. three days after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  Since then, she has produced “Our Class,” a critically…

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The Head of ROSATOM, Alexey Likhachev, held a working meeting with the Director General of the International ITER Organization, Pietro Barabaschi

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On October 8, Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, held a working meeting with his colleague from the International ITER Organization, Pietro Barabaschi, who was in Russia on a visit. The parties discussed issues related to the joint implementation of the international project for the construction of the ITER thermonuclear experimental reactor, in particular, the…

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N. Korean Soldiers ‘Highly Likely’ Killed in Ukraine – Seoul

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North Korean soldiers are likely fighting in Ukraine alongside Russian troops, with some believed already killed and more expected to be deployed, Seoul’s defense minister said Tuesday. Ukrainian media have reported that six North Korean military officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk on Oct. 3. Seoul’s defense minister,…

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Russia, China Hold Joint Navy Patrol in the Pacific

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Russian and Chinese navy ships have carried out a joint patrol in the northeast of the Pacific Ocean, the Russian military said on Tuesday. The vessels “proceeded with maneuvers” to practice anti-submarine tactics, it said. The patrol came after the two countries held joint military drills, as the allies deepen ties that have seen NATO…

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Over 1K Evacuated After Ukraine Hits Annexed Crimea’s ‘Largest’ Oil Depot

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More than 1,000 people were evacuated in the annexed Crimean city of Feodosia after Ukrainian strikes sparked a large fire at a major oil terminal there the day before, Russian-installed authorities said Tuesday. On Monday, Ukraine’s military claimed its missile forces had carried out a successful strike on the Feodosia offshore oil terminal, which it called the…

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Despite Fears of Wider Middle East War, Russian Emigres in Israel Say They Are Unlikely to Leave

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As Israel marks the first anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack amid fears of a wider war erupting in the Middle East, Russians who fled to Israel following the invasion of Ukraine told The Moscow Times they have little interest in returning to their homeland. The anniversary of Oct. 7 comes as Israel…

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Two Major Buyers Said To Bid for Raiffeisenbank Russia

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news Court Freezes Shares of Raiffeisen’s Russian Division, Delaying Sale Read more This deal was linked to RBI’s efforts to exit Russia, as the acquisition would be paid for out of some 1.6 billion euros worth of trapped RBI profits in the country. If the deal had gone through, it would have meant that even if RBI…

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Russia Jails Ukrainian Woman 8 Years for Annexation Day Bomb Plot – Mediazona

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A Russian court has sentenced a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman to eight years in prison for allegedly plotting an explosion on the day that Russia claimed to have annexed four Ukrainian regions, the independent news website Mediazona reported Monday, citing her lawyer. Irina Navalnaya was detained by occupying authorities in Mariupol in September 2022 on suspicion of attempted terrorism…

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Russian Schoolchildren Forced to Send Putin Birthday Wishes On-Camera

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Children in schools and kindergartens across Russia appear to have been forced to wish President Vladimir Putin a happy 72nd birthday Monday in closely matching videos, media outlets reported. The opposition Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit said it found similar flash mobs on social media posts in at least 11 Russian regions. The independent news website Vyorstka…

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Putin Halts Visits to Sochi Residence Due to Safety Concerns – Proekt

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President Vladimir Putin has stopped visiting his residence in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi due to fears of a fatal drone attack, the independent investigative outlet Proekt reported Monday.  Putin has been spending at least 30 days per year at the Bocharov Ruchey residence since it was renovated for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and likely…

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Russia Jails U.S. ‘Mercenary’, 72, for Nearly 7 Years

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A Russian court sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine to nearly seven years in prison on Monday. Stephen Hubbard was sentenced to six years and 10 months by the Moscow City Court. The bearded defendant stood uneasily as the sentence was read out. He was convicted of serving…

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Belgorod Region Offers Record 3M Ruble Military Sign-Up Payment

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Southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region is offering a nationwide record of 3 million rubles ($31,200) in one-time payments for signing military contracts to fight in Ukraine, authorities said Monday. “The payment will amount to 3 million rubles from all sources: the federal, regional, municipal budgets and extra-budgetary funds,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said at a regional administration…

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ROSATOM will train 18 young specialists from Bolivia for a research reactor operation

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ROSATOM will train 18 young specialists from the Plurinational State of Bolivia for the research reactor operation at the Center for Nuclear Technology Research and Development, which is under construction in El Alto. Their training will start in the very near future at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). The grant-aided students will take a training course…

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Installation of core catcher body has started at Unit 3 of El-Dabaa NPP in Egypt

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On October 6, 2024, works on installation of the core catcher body commenced at Unit 3 of El-Dabaa NPP in the Arab Republic of Egypt (the General Designer and General Contractor is ROSATOM State Corporation Engineering Division). The core catcher is long-lead equipment; it consists of several elements with the total weight of 480 tons,…

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Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout Returns to Arms Trading Business – WSJ

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Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed the “Merchant of Death,” has made a comeback to the arms trading business and is seeking to broker sales of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Bout, 57, was freed in a December 2022 prisoner swap with U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner.…

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Russian State Media Corporation Hit By ‘Unprecedented’ Hacking Attack – Reports

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Hackers targeted Russian state media giant VGTRK on Monday, disrupting its online broadcasting, the state-run Gazeta.ru news outlet reported.  VGTRK operates several national television channels, including Rossia 1 and Rossia 24, in addition to more than 80 regional television and radio stations.  “Online broadcasting and internal services are down, even the internet and telephones are…

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Ukraine Says Hit Crimea Oil Terminal, Russia Claims Gains

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Ukraine insists the strikes are fair retaliation for Russian attacks on its own energy infrastructure that have plunged millions into darkness. Russia’s Defense Ministry meanwhile claimed the capture of a village in eastern Ukraine close to the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. Missiles target Kyiv The Defense Ministry in a briefing said it captured the…

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How To Grow Watermelon in the Arctic Circle

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For most readers the region of Russia called Sakha — officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) — in the far north conjures up images of snow, reindeer, permafrost and polar night. But even though this region borders on the Arctic Ocean, these images are just stereotypes. Sakha is a country of honey and berries, strawberries…

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Russia Arrests Dutch Citizen for ‘Violence Against Police’

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A Russian court on Friday placed a Dutch national under arrest for “violence towards police personnel,” a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison. Moscow has arrested several Westerners since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “A Moscow court has issued a preventative measure for a citizen of the Kingdom of the…

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Containing Russia’s Dangerous Game of ‘Chernobyl Roulette’

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President Volodymyr Zelensky once had an optimistic vision for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Weeks after his 2019 election, he signed a decree to turn Ukraine’s portion of the 2,600-square-kilometer region along the border with Belarus into an engine of economic growth, welcoming a soaring stream of tourists inspired by HBO’s dramatization of the 1986 disaster.…

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Russia Sentences Crimean to 14 Years on Treason Charges

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Russia on Friday sentenced a Crimean man to 14 years in a penal colony on treason charges after it accused him of aiding the Ukrainian military. Moscow regularly sentences people it accuses of working for Ukraine or of criticizing Russia’s military offensive there, now in its third year, and has orchestrated a massive crackdown. Russian…

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Putin Abandons Peace Talks, Seeks to Destroy Ukrainian State After Kursk Incursion – Report

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President Vladimir Putin has all but abandoned the idea of peace talks with Kyiv following Ukraine’s Kursk region incursion, which dealt a “humiliating” blow to the Russian leader, the independent Poyasnitelnaya Zapiska (Explanatory Note) news outlet reported, citing sources close to the Kremlin. “The Kremlin has come to a corresponding conclusion that they will destroy Ukrainian statehood. The…

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Investigators Collected Snow, Underwear and More From Scene of Navalny’s Death – Dossier Center

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Russian investigators seized 75 items, including snow and underwear, from the scene of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s death, the investigative news outlet Dossier Center reported Friday, citing documents it said it had obtained. Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16 under murky circumstances, leading his allies to assert that he was murdered. His…

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