A Moscow court on Tuesday upheld a 12-and-a-half year jail sentence for a U.S.-Russian male, Robert Woodland, founded guilty previously this year on drug charges.At an appeal hearing at the Moscow City Court on Tuesday, Judge Irina Khorlina ruled to leave the original sentence unchanged, an AFP reporter reported from the courtroom.Woodland, 32, took

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The governors of Russia's Rostov and Tambov areas announced their resignations on Monday, starting what political experts refer to as gubernatorpad, or President Vladimir Putin's annual shakeup of local heads. Today, the nation's management is setting other tasks for me at the federal level that will require to be performed, Tambov regi

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An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said on Tuesday.

Danil Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in Russia's Urals when he was detained in 2023 along with his wife

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Russia demanded that Ukraine drastically reduce its military and cede partially occupied territories, as well as that the West lift its sanctions, in the early stages of peace talks during Moscow’s 2022 invasion, the investigative outlet Systema reported Monday, citing a draft treaty proposal it said it obtained.

Russia and Ukraine entered peace

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Estonia's coalition federal government on Monday said it wanted to modify the constitution to ban Russian and Belarusian homeowners from enacting municipal polls next year, to avoid possible meddling by Moscow and Minsk.More than 80,000 Russian citizens hold a residence authorization in the previous Soviet republic of 1.3 million people, which got its

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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui in the Kremlin on Monday, Moscow announced.

The meeting took place amid western claims that Russia plans to deploy thousands of Pyongyang's troops to the Ukraine conflict.

Choe has been in Russia for a week and has pledged that North Korea would stand by Russia

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