Russia on Friday expelled three Moldovan diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after Chisinau tossed out Russian embassy authorities accused of helping a pro-Moscow lawmaker leave the country.Earlier this week, Moldovan authorities purchased the expulsion of three Russian diplomats after they accused the Russian embassy of helping legislator Alexandr
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Russia’s recent oil spill off the Black Sea coast has caused an estimated 84.9 billion rubles ($1 billion) in environmental damage, the government environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said Friday.

The spill occurred after two aging Russian tankers — Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 — released thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil during a storm on De

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)stated Friday that its representatives detained a soldier who was presumably working with the Ukrainian military to prepare a suicide bomb attack on a military academy.The 49-year-old soldier wasarrested in the Moscow area on Wednesday while supposedly going to pick up an explosive device, according to Russia's I
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White House officials have actually encouraged U.S. President Donald Trump not to talk to Russia's Vladimir Putin up until the Kremlin devotes to a broad ceasefire in Ukraine, NBC News reported Friday, pointing out 2 administration sources knowledgeable about the matter.Trump and Putin have actually held a minimum of 2 telephone call given that February. The U.S. president said Sunday
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Russian drone strikes killed a minimum of five individuals and injured more than 30 in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, authorities said Friday, the latest barrage in the middle of installing U.S. pressure for a ceasefire.Russia and Ukraine have stepped up aerial attacks even as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes them to come to the negotiating table and
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The head of Russia's Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), a major organization lobby, stated Friday that he does not anticipate quick sanctions relief despite optimism over a possible U.S.-Russian offer on ending the war in Ukraine. Despite our optimism about possible arrangements on Ukraine with the U.S., we understand there will be no rapid d
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