Russia released U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina in a prisoner exchange with the United States early Thursday in Abu Dhabi, U.S. officials confirmed.

“American Ksenia Karelina is on a plane back home to the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubiowrote on X. “She was wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year and President Trump s

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U.S. and Russian delegations met Thursday in Istanbul for a second round of talks aimed at normalizing the operations of their diplomatic missions, following years of tit-for-tat expulsions amid strained bilateral ties.

Reuters reported that several vehicles were seen entering the Russian consulate in the Turkish city ahead of the closed-door

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Russia of dragging China into the war and declared that Beijing understood dozens of its people had actually been hired to fight for Moscow.According to Zelensky, Ukrainian intelligence services have identified more than 150 Chinese nationals combating on the cutting edge, a day after Kyiv declared
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Russia's sole domestic tv maker Kvant has actually stopped production due to low need and high costs, the Kommersant organization newspaperreported Wednesday, mentioning the CEO's letter to shareholders.Kvant CEO Mikhail Etonov apparently composed in the March 17 letter that the business stopped manufacturing Irbis tv at its
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Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it was expelling Romania's military attache and his deputy in a vindictive move versus the country.In March, Bucharest said it would expel two Russian diplomats over allegations of disturbance in the nation's politics in the middle of tensions over an annulled presidential election.Romanian authorities tossed
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Russia’s Justice Ministry is considering adding former late-night talk show host and actor Ivan Urgant to its list of “foreign agents” over allegations of “foreign influence,” the state-run news agency TASSreported Wednesday, citing the ministry’s letter to a lawmaker.

Lower-house State Duma member Nikolai Novichkov asked the ministry to designate

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