Georgians objected on Saturday as the survey commission rubber-stamped the ruling party's triumph in a controversial parliamentary vote marked by claims of Russian meddling and Western calls to investigate scams allegations.The Caucasus nation's pro-Western opposition has denounced the Oct. 26 vote as deceitful, while the European Union and the U
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Germany's Olaf Scholz on Friday of playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin after the chancellor spoke by phone to the Kremlin chief for the first time in almost two years.

In the call, Scholz "condemned Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and called on President Putin to end

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Russia is expected to stop delivering gas to Austria from Saturday, said a spokeswoman for OMV, the Alpine nation's energy company.

"We have been informed" by Russian energy giant Gazprom that it will no longer deliver Russian gas, the OMV spokeswoman told AFP on Friday.

Austria has long been heavily dependent on Russian gas, but its environment

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At least three Russian oil refineries could face closures next year as declining exports, high crude oil costs and soaring interest rates lead to mounting financial losses, Reuters reported Friday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

The Tuapse refinery, a large but “relatively unsophisticated” facility owned by the state-backed oil g

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The United Nations warned Friday that restored Russian strikes on Ukraine's battered energy facilities could bring severe hardship and set off further mass displacement. If they were to target the energy sector again, this might be a tipping point, said Matthias Schmale, the UN's humanitarian organizer in Ukraine. Such attacks, he added, coul
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President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke over the phone on Friday, Moscow and Berlin revealed, coming at a moment of fantastic unpredictability about the West's ongoing support of Ukraine.Scholz stated Sunday he was interested in talking with the Kremlin leader about possible solutions to end the war in Ukraine, which is nearing
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