Moscow said Tuesday that a defense pact it signed with North Korea earlier this year is unambiguous, as tensions flared over Pyongyang's damage of roadways causing South Korea.North Korea blew up sections of roads and rail lines on its side of the greatly strengthened border in between the 2 Koreas on Tuesday, prompting Seoul to perform a

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President Vladimir Putinsigned a decree Tuesday momentarily handing over control of a major junk food maker to the Russian government.In April 2023, Putin authorized the government to seize the Russia-based possessions of foreign companies from countries the Kremlin views as unfriendly, a relocation extensively viewed as retaliation to the West freezing around $

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Russian authorities will no longer try to prevent the ruble from falling past 100 against the U.S. dollar as they expect the low exchange rate will benefit Russia’s state budget amid plans for more wartime spending, Bloombergreported Tuesday, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the situation.

Shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine,

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Russia’s state media regulator Roskomnadzor said the popular video game platform Steam agreed to remove all banned content from its Russian store, state media reported Tuesday.

Steam, a game distribution platform owned by the American company Valve, offers a catalog of more than 100,000 games, with 132 million users worldwide. There are an

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The head of Russia's Olympic Committee announced his resignation on Tuesday, a surprise move that comes as Moscow faces isolation in international sporting organizations over its invasion of Ukraine.

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, a five-time Olympic medallist, said in his resignation letter that there were "timely" reasons why Russian sport needed a new

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Alexei Moskalev, the father of a Russian girl who drew an anti-war picture at school, was released from prison on Tuesday after serving a sentence under Russia’s wartime censorship laws.

In March 2023, Moskalev wassentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian military. Moskalev did not attend his sentencing

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