Russian officials have not received any applications from foreign businesses seeking to return to the country, a senior Russian Finance Ministry officialsaid Wednesday.

“We haven’t received any specific applications on this issue yet,” Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov told the business news outlet RBC, adding that many foreign companies remai

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The Kremlin said Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin has no plans to travel to Saudi Arabia, where U.S. President Donald Trump will be visiting in the coming weeks, and dismissed speculation the two leaders would meet there.

Trump and Putin have held at least two phone calls since February but have not met in person, while top officials from

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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesdayordered sweeping procedures versus phone and internet frauds, consisting of a restriction on federal government and teller from using foreign messaging apps.Employees of federal government companies, credit organizations and telecom operators will be disallowed from communicating through foreign messaging apps in a main capability, according

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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesdayintroduced a bill that would impose sanctions on Russian energy purchases if the Kremlin refuses to engage in good-faith negotiations for ending the war in Ukraine.

The 50 Republicans and Democrats, led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, said their bill would impose a 500% tariff on

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Russia has added 15 new billionaires to Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s richest people over the past year, placing it fifth globally in terms of newcomers.

Despite sanctions and the fallout of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin's redistribution of foreign assets and a wave of nationalizations have created a new Russian elite.  

The

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Argentine authorities have dismantled an infamous Russian cult, arresting 14 people in a joint operation across 2 airports that has exposed a sinister network of supposed human exploitation.Konstantin Rudnev, the 57-year-old founder of the Ashram Shambhala sect, was intercepted together with his followers at airports in Bariloche and Buenos

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