A military attack helicopter crashed in an uninhabited area of central Russia, killing the entire crew, authorities said early Thursday.

"AMi-28helicoptercrashed in the Zhizdrinskydistrict," Kaluga region Governor Vladislav Shapsha said. "A taskforceandrescuers are working at the crashsite."

The Zhizdrinskydistrict, located in the central Kaluga

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President Vladimir Putin met with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as continued "escalation" in the Middle East, state media reported on Thursday.

The meeting, held late Wednesday, comes at a time when Russia — which saved Assad's government through its military intervention in 2015 d

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Russia’s militarysaid Wednesday that it scrambled a Su-27 fighter jet to prevent three British warplanes from entering Russian airspace over the Black Sea.

A Su-27 identified the “three air targets” as a U.K. Royal Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft and two Typhoon fighter planes, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.

“As the Russian f

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A Russian man arrested this week for allegedly planning to “destabilize” the Paris Olympics is an intelligence officer for Moscow who worked undercover as a chef in France for over a decade, Le Mondereported late Tuesday, citing anonymous European security and intelligence officials.

French prosecutors said the 40-year-old Russian national was

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Authorities in Moscow on Wednesday renamed the capital city’s Square of Europe as the Square of Eurasia amid Russia’s worsening relations with the West over the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Square of Europe, located in front of the bustling Kievsky Railway Station, was unveiled in 2002 as part of a joint Russian-Belgian project symbolizing

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Kyrgyzstan validated an agreement with Russia on Wednesday for the mass decontamination of radioactive locations that posture a danger to the regional population.The mountainous central Asian country, a former Soviet republic, is still suffering the environmental effects of uranium and other heavy metals mining during the Soviet era.Ninety-two sites

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11 dead in suicide bombing at a security post in Pakistan