Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it had summoned Russia’s ambassador to demand answers over reports that Moscow police used violence against Kyrgyz nationals during a raid on a bathhouse last week.

Videos posted Saturday by a Kyrgyz lawmaker showed masked men wearing red armbands forcing dozens of half-naked men to crawl and lie face down

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Russia’s attempts to boost its flagging birth rate — through policies promoting “traditional values,” tighter abortion restrictions and officials’ encouragement of larger families — appear to be falling short, as the number of births has fallen to its lowest level in centuries.

According to data released by the state statistics agency Rosstat,

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About one-third of U.S. companies that left Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have seen their buyback options expire, the head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham) said in an interview published Monday.

“Some of the [buyback] options are still valid, but 30% have already expired,” AmCham Russia President Robert Agee t

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A series of ice hockey games between Russian and U.S. players will likely take place in St. Petersburg and Washington D.C. sometime in the future, Russia’s Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarevsaid Monday.

Following a closely watched phone call last month, the Kremlinsaid U.S. President Donald Trump supported President Vladimir Putin’s idea to organize

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Russian state television portrayed Sunday’s deadly missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy as a “staged provocation” aimed at “undermining” the ongoing Ukraine ceasefire talks between Moscow and Washington.

Two ballistic missiles hit the center of Sumy, close to the Russian border, on Sunday morning, Ukrainian authorities said.

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Decorated veterans of Russia’s war against Ukraine will take part in the Victory Day parade in Moscow next month, the Kremlin told state media on Monday.

This year’s Victory Day celebrations, which mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in WWII, will take place across Russia on May 9.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry

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