Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian for talks Friday at a forum in the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan, a senior aide said Monday.

Yury Ushakov, Putin's aide on foreign policy, told journalists the leaders will meet in Ashgabat while attending an event celebrating a Turkmen poet.

"This meeting has

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Russia on Monday arrested a medic for "Satanism" and "promoting same-sex relationships," as Moscow intensifies a legal crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in defense of what it calls "traditional family values."

Moscow has for years created a hostile environment for LGBTQ+ people, a trend it hugely accelerated since sending troops to Ukraine in 2022.

The

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As Israel marks the first anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack amid fears of a wider war erupting in the Middle East, Russians who fled to Israel following the invasion of Ukraine told The Moscow Times they have little interest in returning to their homeland.

The anniversary of Oct. 7 comes as Israel remains deeply engaged in deadly

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A Russian court has actually sentenced a 26-year-old Ukrainian female to eight years in jail for apparently outlining an explosion on the day that Russia claimed to have annexed 4 Ukrainian regions, the independent news website Mediazona reported Monday, citing her lawyer.Iryna Navalna was apprehended by occupying authorities in Mariupol in September 2022 o

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This deal was linked to RBI's efforts to exit Russia, as the acquisition would be spent for out of some 1.6 billion euros worth of trapped RBI revenues in the country. If the deal had gone through, it would have implied that even if RBI subsequently offered its Russian operations at a cut-down cost, it would have at least been able to delight in some of the p

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Kids in schools and kindergartens across Russia appear to have been forced to want President Vladimir Putin a happy 72nd birthday Monday in closely matching videos, media outlets reported.The opposition Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit stated it discovered similar flash mobs on social media posts in a minimum of 11 Russian areas. The independent news

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