Russia's telecoms watchdog on Tuesday announced that it was banning the social media platform Discord for violating the country's laws, signaling the latest move by authorities to tighten control over the internet.

Access to Discord was being "restricted due to the violation of requirements of Russian legislation" pertaining to "preventing the use

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Kyiv said Wednesday it had struck a Russian arms depot in the border region of Bryansk that was storing hardware and ammo including munitions supplied to Moscow by North Korea.

Ukrainian forces have in recent months occupied swathes of Russia's border Kursk region and have stepped up attacks inside Russia, mainly targeting energy facilities.

The

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Ex-U.S. President Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin amidst a domestic lack at the height of the pandemic in 2020, The Washington Postreported Tuesday, citing its associate editor Bob Woodward's upcoming book.Putin, a known germophobe who was commonly said to have taken additional preventive measures

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The European Union approved a new sanctions framework on Tuesday to target people responsible for actions the body sees as destabilizing, the EU said in a news release. The statement states that the brand-new structure will permit the EU to target individuals and entities taken part in actions and policies by the federal government of the Russian Federation,

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The U.K. federal government on Tuesday sanctioned the chemical and biological arm of Russia's Armed Forces and its leader Igor Kirillov over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.Britain and the United States have implicated Russia of utilizing the hazardous representative chloropicrin versus Ukrainian soldiers in offense of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

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High-end housing sales in the Russian capital reached a record-setting 174 billion rubles ($1.8 billion) in January-September 2024, the Vedomosti company dailyreported Tuesday, citing research study by property company NF Group.The 1,270 high-end apartments offered in Moscow so far this year were up from 860 sales worth 110 billion rubles ($1.14 billion)

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