Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late opposition activist Alexei Navalny,said Federal Security Service (FSB) agents searched the home of his elderly father in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg early Thursday.

The state-run news agency TASS, citing anonymous police sources, reported that 69-year-old Mikhail Volkov could face criminal charges of

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Real wages in Russia grew by a solid 6.5% year-on-year in January, according to preliminary Rosstat data, just as the economy begins to cool and inflation starts to decline.

Rosstat reported that the average monthly nominal wage was 88,981 rubles ($1,056), marking a 17.1% rise in nominal terms compared to the same period of the previous year.

The

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A Russian ballistic missile strike eliminated a minimum of four individuals and injured 17 others in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's home town of Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday, authorities said.The strike followed an overnight Tuesday drone barrage on the areas of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, which together eliminated one and hurt at least 7 others,
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President Vladimir Putinsigned a decree Wednesday allowing the Armenian investment fund Balchug Capital to buy shares in nine publicly traded companies owned by Goldman Sachs’ Russian subsidiary.

In January, the Kremlin leaderauthorized Balchug Capital to acquire Goldman Sachs’ Russian unit, nearly three years after the Wall Street firm announced i

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The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Karina Rotenberg, the wife of Russian billionaire and close Putin associate Boris Rotenberg.

Karina Yurievna Rotenberg was removed from the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Leaked documents indicate that Karina

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Russia has launched the spring conscription of 160,000 servicemen, marking an increase from previous drafts amid its war on Ukraine and ongoing peace talks with Washington.

The Kremlin and the Defense Ministry both insist that Russian conscripts will not be deployed to combat and that the call-up is unrelated to the conflict in Ukraine.

However, as

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