A Moscow court on Tuesday extended the pre-trial detention of a dual Russian-German person implicated of treason in an ultra-secret criminal case.Russia has jailed a spate of Western citizens amid its offensive on Ukraine, drawing allegations that it is taking hostages to use as bargaining chips for detainee exchanges.According to state-run news

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Lawmakers in Russia’s lower-house State Duma voted Tuesday to expand the criteria for blacklisting organizations as “undesirable” to include any entity affiliated with a foreign government.

The 2015 law, initially aimed at foreign-funded NGOs, has gradually been extended to target independent news outlets, human rights groups, environmental

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The Moscow local government revealed Tuesday that it will provide freshly enlisted contract soldiers an additional one-time payment of 1.9 million rubles ($21,783) as Russia continues to face an acute manpower scarcity in the war on Ukraine.Moscow's mayor's office said all local and national-level support procedures formerly introduced for soldiers and the

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... we have a little favor to ask. As you may have heard, The Moscow Times, an independent news source for over 30 years, has actually been unjustly branded as a foreign representative by the Russian government. This outright effort to silence our voice is a direct attack on the stability of journalism and the worths we hold dear.We, the journalists of The Moscow

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Wildfires have destroyed almost 5 million hectares of forest in Russia so far this summer season, the nation's Aerial Forest Protection Service reported Monday. This figure implies that this year's wildfire season in Russia has actually already been more destructive than the previous two, which saw 4.6 million hectares and 3.5 million hectares of forest ruined r

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Russia's armed force stated Tuesday it caught another little town in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk area, where its forces have been making incremental advances for the past a number of months.The defense ministry stated its troops freed the settlement of Ivano-Dariivka, a town that consisted of just a few streets and houses before Russia introduced

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