Opposition figures Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Andrei Pivovarov, who were released this week as part of the largest prisoner exchange in between Russia and the West because the Cold War, held a press conference in Bonn, Germany on Friday at the workplace of German news agency Deutsche Welle. We're feeling indescribable emotions, activist Andrei P
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Sasha Skochilenko did not know what was happening as she was taken from her St. Petersburg prison cell to Moscow, where men in balaclavas escorted her onto a plane with several other prisoners.

“We were accompanied by a dozen people in balaclavas,” said the 33-year-old St. Petersburg artist, who was freed Thursday from a seven-year prison sentence f

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Ukraine announced Friday that it got the bodies of 250 eliminated soldiers in one of the largest exchanges of servicemen stays since Russia invaded in February 2022. The two warring sides frequently exchange soldiers' bodies as well as detainees of war in unusual diplomatic dealmaking including Moscow and Kyiv. As an outcome of repatriation
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A man set himself on fire outside of a government service center in Moscow on Friday, Russian media reported, saying that he was hospitalized with severe burns.

Eyewitnesses said they saw the man set fire to himself on the second floor of the service center located on the southwestern side of the Russian capital, according to the tabloid newspaper

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Law enforcement authorities on Friday arrested a senior Russian lawmaker on accusations that he ordered the murder of his business partner.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said that Senator Dmitry Savelyev “instructed his friend to organize the murder of a businessman” in August 2023.

It said law enforcement agents

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The Kremlin on Friday stated possible talks over the conflict in Ukraine were based upon entirely different concepts from settlements over a detainee swap offer that saw 24 individuals released on Thursday. If we speak about Ukraine and more complex global problems, there are entirely various concepts, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov informed
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