Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry on Friday initiated a federal-level emergency response in the southwestern Kursk region as clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces continued for a fourth day following Kyiv’s surprise incursion earlier this week.

The Russian government classifies a federal emergency as a man-made or natural disaster

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One person was killed and two others were injured in a Ukrainian attack on southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region, local authoritiessaid Friday.

The man died in the border town of Shebekino, which authorities said has repeatedly come under shelling and drone attacks over the past 24 hours.

“A man died in an ambulance while on the way to the h

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Ukraine's armed force stated early Friday that it hit a Russian airfield in the Lipetsk area in an over night strike that damaged ammo storage facilities. Last night, the Ukrainian Defence Forces attacked the Lipetsk airfield, Ukraine's General Staff said, adding that they struck warehouses with directed aerial bombs and a number of other facilities. T

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Users across Russia reported extensive outages of YouTube on Thursday, simply weeks after Russian authorities slammed the video streaming platform for what they described as anti-Kremlin actions.The online tracking service Sboi.rf reported getting around 12,000 complaints about YouTube within a 10-minute duration. Downdetector, another blackout

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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law expanding legislation on “undesirable” organizations to include state-sponsored entities in addition to non-governmental organizations.

Since introducing their “undesirable” list in 2015 to crack down on foreign-funded NGOs, Russian authorities have expanded the law to target independent news out

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Poland jailed a previous ally of the late Russian dissenter Alexei Navalny and banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of threatening public security, Polish media reported Wednesday, mentioning local authorities.Igor Rogov was apprehended on July 29 in the southern Polish city of Katowice where he was studying on a scholarship, reported Vot

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