A freight ship capsized off the coast of Far East Russia's Sakhalin island, eliminating at least 2 crewmen, the state-run Interfax news agency reported Friday, mentioning emergency services.Earlier, Sakhalin region Governor Valery Limarenko stated the Grigory Lotsov, which was packed with crushed stone and sand, sank off the coast of Sakhalin's Korsakovsky D

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Russia is preparing to deploy 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the fight against Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Thursday, mentioning intelligence information.Zelensky has actually formerly accused North Korea of sending out soldiers to Russia's army however this was the first time he gave an exact figure.An undefined variety of North Korean soldiers

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Russian law enforcement authorities placed the better half of opposition figure Leonid Gozman underhouse arrest on claims of trafficking cultural goods from Russia to Italy, media reported Thursday.The independent paper Novaya Gazeta, citing a court indictment, reported that the cultural items listed by authorities include cooking area and house

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Russia’s Orthodox Church plans to give pregnant women in the northwestern Tver region letters urging them to give birth instead of having an abortion.

The Tver diocese announced earlier this week that a letter penned by Metropolitan Ambrose of Tver and Kashinsk will be sent out to regional prenatal centers at a time when women “face the most d

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When Ukrainian soldier Ihor Shyshko described his two years of detention in Russia along with 72-year-old U.S. resident Stephen Hubbard, three words came to mind: torture, humiliation and hunger.After being held incommunicado for 2 and a half years, Hubbard unexpectedly appeared in a Moscow court last month where he was sentenced in a closed trial to

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3 workers were eliminated after part of a cash cow collapsed in Far East Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, the head of the regional Emergency Situations Ministry stated Thursday. The men were operating at the Kumroch mine, located in Kamchatka's Ust-Kamchatsky District, when among the shafts collapsed. The site is run by the Bystrinskaya Mining

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