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Russia's budget deficit rose by 168 billion rubles ($2.18 billion) in May, bringing the total for the first five months of 2025 to 3.4 trillion rubles ($44.2 billion), or 1.5% of GDP, according to the Finance Ministry.

That is nearly five times higher than the same period of 2024 and nearly equal to the entire deficit planned for the full year — 3

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Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday exchanged a new group of prisoners of war under a deal reached during last week’s peace talks in Istanbul, both sides said.

“A second group of Russian military personnel was returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. “A group of prisoners of war of the

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The governor of Siberia’s Zabaikalsky region dismissed his entire cabinet on Tuesday after Russia’s top prosecutor asked regional law enforcement authorities to restore the issuance of government payments to the families of soldiers killed in Ukraine.

Zabaikalsky region Governor Alexander Osipov said his deputies and regional ministers will

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Russian and U.S. officials could meet “very soon” for another round of talks aimed at restoring the operations of their diplomatic missions, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkovsaid Tuesday.

Officials from the two countries met for embassy talks on Feb. 27 and April 10 in the Turkish city of Istanbul after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei

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A woman was killed and four other people were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on a gas station in the southwestern city of Belgorod, authoritiessaid Tuesday.

“We were hoping for the best until the last moment,” Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram. “But unfortunately, one civilian was killed and four were injured.”

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The Telegram messaging app may be less secure than previously thought, as its infrastructure is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services, according to a new investigation by the exiled outlet IStories.

The popular messaging app's founder, Russian-born Pavel Durov, has touted his platform as a haven