Belarusian authorities said Thursday that they freed an opposition figure and naturalized U.S. citizen jailed for allegedly attempting to seize power from President Alexander Lukashenko.Yuras Zyankovich, 47, was detained in April 2021 throughout a crackdown on opposition activists objecting against Lukashenko's rule.He was sentenced to 11 years in

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The head of Russia’s Communist Party on Thursday called on President Vladimir Putin to officially rename the southern city of Volgograd to Stalingrad in honor of its World War II legacy.

“We’ve been pushing for this for a long time,” party leader Gennady Zyuganov told the state-run TASS news agency. “In my opinion, it’s long overdue. If I were [the

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Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday it returned to profit in 2024 after posting a record net loss the previous year.

Gazprom reported a net profit of 1.22 trillion rubles ($14.9 billion), reversing a 629 billion ruble ($7 billion) loss in 2023 — its first net loss in a quarter-century and the largest in its history.

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‘We Need to Recognize Russia&s Colonial Violence&: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova‘We Need to Recognize Russia&s Colonial Violence&: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova
‘We Need to Recognize Russia&s Colonial Violence&: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova

Seseg Jigjitova, a Berlin-based illustrator from the Siberian republic of Buryatia, has emerged as a prominent critic of Russian colonialism and advocate for the rights of Buryats amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Buryatia, which shares a border of over 1,000 kilometers with Mongolia, has a population of just over 970,000, with 32% of

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Ukrainian drone strikes on a market in the occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine's Kherson area eliminated seven individuals on Thursday, a Moscow-installed authorities said. Ukrainian Armed Forces introduced a significant strike with FPV drones versus civilians, stated Vladimir Saldo, the Kremlin-appointed head of the partly inhabited Kherson region. At l

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Russia has more than tripled its 2025 budget deficit forecast to 1.7% of GDP, up from a previous estimate of 0.5%, citing falling oil prices triggered by the Trump administration’s escalating tariff war.

The Finance Ministry had initially projected a 2025 deficit of 1.17 trillion rubles ($14.3 billion), or 0.5% of GDP. Its latest revision,

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