A politician in Far East Russia's Zabaikalsky region said he has actually been working from another location from Ukraine for the previous 4 years, raising eyebrows over an evident loophole that allowed him to keep his post during wartime.Mikhail Nosik, 65, who works as a local councilman in the Kalarsky district of the Zabaikalsky region, revealed in a current ethics
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A Moscow military court on Thursday sentenced previous deputy chief of Russia's General Staff Vadim Shamarin to 7 years in a maximum-security prison on corruption charges.Lieutenant-General Shamarin, who likewise headed the General Staff's communications directorate, was jailed in May 2024 on charges of accepting 36 million rubles ($437,600) in
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Jailed Russian journalist and activist Maria Ponomarenko has gone on a hunger strike to oppose her treatment in solitary confinement, her support group stated Thursday.Ponomarenko, who is serving concurrent prison sentences for spreading out fake news about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and presumably attacking prison guards, is not anticipated to be
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met with Russian-Israeli national Alexander Troufanov, who was freed earlier this year after being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, crediting Moscow’s longstanding ties with Palestinian groups for helping secure his release.

Troufanov, 29, was among the hostages freed in February after 498 days in captivity as

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Moscow's proposition to carry Russian gas via Kazakhstan as an option to the shelved Power of Siberia 2 pipeline has actually stopped working to get traction in Beijing.The strategy, announced by Moscow in the fall of 2024, visualized the shipment of approximately 45 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas each year to China through Kazakhstan. But Chinese
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Japan’s government sent Russia a formal letter of protest over the closure of sea navigation around the Kuril Islands, Russian state mediareported Thursday.

Tokyo accused Russia of introducing restrictions on the navigation of foreign military and civilian ships around the southern Kuril Islands from April 16 to May 1, according to the state-run

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