Russia published a 500 billion ruble ($5.4 billion) federal budget plan surplus in March 2025 amidst falling oil incomes, according to preliminary data from the Finance Ministry.The deficit was comparable to 1% of GDP, well ahead of the 0.5% deficit target for this year in the budget plan. However, the Finance Ministry said this week that average oil prices are

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Russian police authorities on Thursdayaccused Ukrainian troops of eliminating nine civilians in a Kursk region town that was under Ukrainian profession up until last month. It was established that Ukrainian servicemen actively shelled residential structures in the village of Makhnovka in the Sudzhansky district no behind March 2025, Ru

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Russian district attorneys are seeking to sentence four journalists to 5 years and 11 months in prison each on charges of extremism over supposed ties to the late opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the independent news site Mediazonareported Thursday.Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergei Karelin and Artyom Kriger, who have all reported on

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President Vladimir Putin's billionaire youth buddies Boris and Arkady Rotenberg are among the main architects and recipients of Russia's wartime possession seizures, the Financial Timesreported Wednesday, pointing out a confidential source near the Russian government.At least 3 Russian business have actually recently been gotten by the chemical

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Police authorities in St. Petersburg raided a 100-year-old independent bookstore, buying the removal of dozens of books they declare break Russia's anti-LGBTQ+ laws, media reported Thursday.Podpisniye Izdaniya got a list of 48 books, consisting of by American author Susan Sontag and banished feminist poetDaria Serenko, that were subject

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Authorities in Russia’s southern republic of Chechnya publicly displayed the body of a teenager accused of stabbing two traffic police officers earlier this week, local media and Chechen opposition groups said Thursday.

The alleged assailant was fatally shot after attacking officers in the town of Achkhoy-Martan on Monday evening. Investigators

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