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Russian law enforcement authorities pressed criminal charges against exiled singer Monetochka for breaking the country’s law on “foreign agents,” Moscow’s Prosectuor’s Office announced Friday.

Monetochka, whose real name is Elizaveta Gyrdymova, fled Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine due to her opposition to the war. She was designa

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 07 September 2024

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Russian rocket strikes on the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad eliminated a minimum of one person and injured more than 50 others, consisting of three kids, authorities stated Friday afternoon.The attacks resulted in a number of fires in the city, consisting of at a high-rise apartment or condo building, according to regional guv Sergiy Lysak. He stated a nine-year-old lady and

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Russia's Central Bank announced Friday that it will extend limitations on foreign cash withdrawals, topping the quantity at $10,000 till next spring.The Central Bank initially introduced the limitations in March 2022 after the U.S. and EU halted cash transfers of dollars and euros to Russia. At the exact same time, personal consumers withdrew some $9 billion from

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Moscow will impose restrictions on American media outlets in response to new U.S. sanctions on the state-funded RT news network, the Kremlin said Friday.

The United States indicted two RT employees and sanctioned its top editors on Wednesday, accusing them of trying to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

"A like response is not

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Residents of 81 federal subjects of Russia will vote in regional and municipal elections starting Friday.

The elections mark the second time this year that Russians are heading to the polls following the March presidential election. That vote, which saw Vladimir Putin win a fifth term virtually unchallenged, was marred by widespread reports of

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A Russian court froze the shares of Raiffeisenbank’s Russian subsidiary, further stalling the sale of the largest Western bank still operating in the country, the lender’s Austrian parent company said Thursday.

“A Russian court has today issued a preliminary injunction, by which shares of AO Raiffeisenbank are subject to a transfer ban with