American composer Philip Glass has accused a theatre in Russian-annexed Crimea of planning to stage a ballet premiere that uses his music without permission.

Glass, an 87-year-old composer famed for his minimalist works, took to X (formerly Twitter) to complain about what he said was an act of "piracy" by a theatre in the Black Sea port city of

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Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov oversaw combat readiness exercises at a military training facility in northwestern Russia, the defense ministry said on Friday.

“Belousov reviewed the organization of combat training of military personnel at one of the training grounds of the Leningrad Military District,” the army said in a statement.

The

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A Russian man suspected of detonating a car bomb in Moscow earlier this week has been extradited from Turkey, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)said Friday.

“Internationally wanted Russian citizen Yevgeny N. Serebryakov, born in 1995, was detained in Bodrum (Turkey) jointly by the FSB and Russia’s Interior Ministry, and with the assistance of T

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A major state-owned Chinese construction company is prepared to help expand the public rail and road networks in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the mayor’s officeannounced Thursday.

Novosibirsk Mayor Maxim Kudryavtsev said in a statement that his administration met with representatives from the China Railway Tunnel Group, a subsidiary of the

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Russia's militarysaid Wednesday that it rushed a Su-27 fighter jet to avoid three British warplanes from entering Russian airspace over the Black Sea.A Su-27 recognized the 3 air targets as a U.K. Royal Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance airplane and two Typhoon fighter planes, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement. As the Russian f

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Considering that at least April, the Russian armed force has been in turmoil, stressed by arrests of senior Defense Ministry authorities on charges consisting of bribery and abuse of power. This chaos appears to have actually peaked in May with the dismissal of longtime Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who dealt with accusations of mishandling the full-blown intrusion of

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