The Council of Europe and Ukraine on Wednesday signed a contract to develop an unique tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for the criminal offense of hostility against Ukraine. The United Nations Charter specifies a crime of hostility as using military by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political self-reliance of another
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North Korea has actually opened a new beach resort targeted at attracting Russian tourists, South Korea's Unification Ministry stated Thursday. The Wonsan Kalma resort, located on the country's eastern coast near a former rocket testing website, is set to open for domestic travelers in July. The new beach resort was initially scheduled to be finished in April
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A U.S. grand jury indicted Russian scientist and Harvard Medical School researcher Ksenia Petrova on three charges of smuggling frog embryos, false statements and concealment of a material fact, the U.S. Justice Departmentsaid Wednesday.

The indictment stems from a Feb. 16 incident when customs officials stopped Petrova at Boston Logan

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Can an ordinary person in Russia be imprisoned for sharing a book sold in bookstores?

Grigory Skvortsov, a photographer from Perm known for his striking images of industrial landscapes and rooftop views, was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday for doing just that.

Skvortsov, 35, was arrested in St. Petersburg in November 2023. For months, his

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Australia’s government on Thursday sanctioned pro-war Russian pop singer Shaman, along with 36 other individuals and seven companies considered strategically important for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.

Shaman, whose real name is Yaroslav Dronov, is now subject to travel bans and asset freezes, according to the Australian Department of Foreign

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State district attorneys submitted a civil lawsuit versus senior Dagestani authorities Magomed-Sultan Magomedov earlier today as part of an ongoing investigation into supposed illegal privatization.Magomedov, who has acted as Dagestan's state secretary because 2021, was supposedly apprehended on Wednesday in Makhachkala following searches at dozens of
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