Last month, Fortanga, an independent news outlet from the republic of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus, broke the news that the neighboring republic of North Ossetia-Alania was outlining to redraw the two regions' shared border.Documents gotten by Fortanga exposed that North Ossetian officials were hoping to include into their territory

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A beluga whale found dead in Norway in August, who some thought of being a Russian spy, probably died of an infection, not gunshot wounds, Norwegian police stated Friday.Nicknamed Hvaldimir, a pun on the Norwegian word for whale (hval) and the whale's purported ties to Moscow, the white beluga initially appeared off the coast in Norway's f

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Russian rescue teams prospered on Friday in saving a family of orcas who had actually ended up being beached in shallow water in the Far East of the country.The cetaceans-- two grownups and 2 young-- had actually been stranded given that Wednesday on the shore of the Kamchatka peninsula, around 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles) east of Moscow.Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry

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The head of security at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been killed in a car bombing, authorities in Kyiv and Moscow said Friday.

Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency said Andriy Korotkiy was inside his vehicle when it was hit by an explosion at around 7:00 a.m. local time in the R

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Authorities in Russia's Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia presented a state of high alert due to electricity lacks, according to a government decree published Friday. The decree signed by Governor Igor Kobzev instructs local emergency situation services to develop additional plans for mitigating the repercussions of widespread power cuts and

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the West to lift sanctions on Taliban-led Afghanistan and take duty for reconstruction efforts in the nation, on Friday.However, Lavrov did not state whether Moscow would lift its own designation of the group as a terrorist company. We advise Western nations to acknowledge their

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