A court in Moscow on Thursdaysentenced a 59-year-old nurse to 8 years in jail for social networks posts opposing Russia's intrusion of Ukraine.Olga Menshikh was accused of spreading fake details about the military with two VKontakte posts that condemned Russian strikes on Vinnytsia, Ukraine that killed 28 people in July 2022 and Russian tro

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A Moscow court ordered that the trial of a 72-year-old U.S. citizen, implicated of battling as a mercenary for Ukraine, proceed in secret on Thursday.The man, recognized as Stefan Hubbard of Michigan, appeared in court using a black hat and beige coat, moseying and dragging his feet, an AFP reporter reported from the court.He faces up to

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A rescue operation to launch a household of 4 killer whales from shallow waters off Far East Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is continuing for the second day, emergency situation authorities said Thursday.Russia's Emergency Situations Ministrysaid Wednesday the 2 orcas and 2 calves were caught in a low tide in the Sea of Okhotsk.Video published on the

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President Vladimir Putin hasappointed a military officer from occupied eastern Ukraine as his envoy to Russia’s Urals region, a key defense industry hub.

Lieutenant Colonel Artyom Zhoga, the chairman of the Russian-installed parliament of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, gained fame when he was filmed last December asking Putin to stand for re-election.

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A young Russian male imprisoned in Chechnya for allegedly burning a Quran faces new charges of high treason that might see him sentenced to life in jail, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office stated Thursday.Nikita Zhuravel, 20, is serving three-and-a-half years in Chechen prison for offending spiritual believers and hooliganism after he was

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A brand-new peace prize backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin bearing Leo Tolstoy's name has actually divided the writer's descendants, bringing to mind the dissatisfied families of his unique Anna Karenina. At the well known Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the very first Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize was granted on September 9 to the African Union, in the presence of

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