Russia’s southwestern Kursk region bordering Ukraine has been engulfed in battles with Kyiv’s troops for over two months.

Ukraine has claimed over two dozen Kursk region settlements since launching its surprise incursion on Aug. 6, in the most significant cross-border attack on Russian territory since World War II.

With most of the territory

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Russia will decrease its consular staff in Norway following a demand from authorities in Oslo, the Russian Embassy stated late Monday.In a post on Facebook, the Russian mission in Oslo stated that only two diplomats will remain in the consular section after a demand to cut its personnel numbers by October 17. Russia's consulates in Kirkenes, near the

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Russian fishermen rescued a man who spent nearly 70 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean, law enforcement authorities in Far East Russia said Tuesday, adding that the man’s brother and nephew died at sea.

Mikhail Pichugin set sail with his brother Sergei and nephew Ilya from Russia’s Khabarovsk region in early August. The Khabarovsk region, located a

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A prominent Moscow bar owner and two others were injured after a car bomb detonated on the south side of the Russian capital early Tuesday, local authorities and media reported.

Viktor Mishachev, CEO and co-founder of the Shaker Group, was hospitalized after the apparent bomb attack, the state-run news agency TASS reported,citing an anonymous law

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A Russian missile strike over night eliminated one woman and wounded 16 others in southern Ukraine's Mykolaiv, where Moscow has recently ramped up air attacks, authorities stated Tuesday.Photos released by very first responders showed several buildings swallowed up in flames and firemens working to snuff out the blaze. Last night the opponent assaulted Mykolaiv.

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In late September, in the Siberian republic of Tyva almost 5,000 kilometers from Moscow, the Great Khural regional parliament convened to swear in its new cohort of deputies at the start of its autumn session.

But as soon as the festive opening was over, the expression of Ruslan Tsalikov, the most notorious of these new deputies, visibly soured. Tsa

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