The image of a dedicated woman waiting for her husband at war is deeply embedded and glamorized in Russian culture, from Soviet-era songs like Katyusha to war movies that portray the suffering and perseverance of soldiers' wives.While in previous wars females anxiously waited for letters, today they await video calls and WhatsApp messages from spouses
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A Moscow court has sentenced exiled philanthropist Boris Zimin to nine years in prison in absentia on fraud charges linked to the sale of shares in the Russian car-sharing company BelkaCar, the court’s press service said Tuesday.

Zimin, 56, was accused of working with accomplices to sell a majority stake in BelkaCar without the approval of a key

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A Moscow court reduced the drug trafficking jail sentence for Russian-born U.S. person Robert Woodland by three years, Reutersreported Tuesday, citing his lawyer.Woodland, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen who worked as an English teacher in Moscow, was apprehended in January 2024 and accused of illegally obtaining, storing, transferring, producing
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Russian hackers targeted a public facility in the Netherlands last year in the first known cyberattack on the country’s infrastructure, the Dutch military intelligence service said Monday.

The Netherlands remains an “attractive target” for Moscow due to its ongoing support for Ukraine, its Hague-based international institutions, its high-tech ind

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Georgian-Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, known for his towering and often controversial public monuments, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported Tuesday.

He passed away at his home in Peredelkino, a village southwest of Moscow, “surrounded by his works,” his assistant Sergei Shagulashvili told the RIA Novosti news agency.

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Russian movie critic Yekaterina Barabash fled home arrest and stopped working to appear at her trial on charges of spreading out deliberately incorrect details about the Russian army, state media reported Monday, mentioning anonymous sources knowledgeable about the case.Barabash, 64, was put under home arrest in February over social media posts in which she
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