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Britons who volunteered with Ukraine’s foreign legion could have been responsible for a missile strike that killed at least 35 people.

The Republican Study Committee condemned the Biden administration’s efforts to reenter a nuclear deal with Iran mediated by Russia.

Anarchist squatters were arrested after occupying a Russian billionaire’s London flat to supposedly use it to shelter Ukrainian refugees.

The Australian and Dutch governments instigated a joint legal case Monday against Russia in an effort to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted Sunday that Russia will be moving towards a “deep recession” as a consequence of the sanctions imposed on Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a necessary response to Western intervention in the region.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – A flight from Belgrade to Moscow was reverted and evacuated following a bomb alert, Serbian police said Friday.

The United States announced Monday it is expelling 12 individuals from Russia’s U.N. delegation in New York, accusing them of being “intelligence operatives.”

French ballet master Laurent Hilaire has resigned from his position as director of the Stanislavski Theatre company in Moscow over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he told AFP on Sunday.

Multiple reports published Thursday documented anti-war protests in over 50 cities throughout Russia that night, following violent crackdowns in response to strongman Vladimir Putin’s military assault of neighboring Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov extended an invitation to the country to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, but on the condition that he not discuss the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine that Russia denies, despite widespread evidence, it has a hand in.

Russian state media reported on Tuesday that dozens of Russian schools have deployed advanced biometric security systems, including facial and silhouette recognition technology, to prevent people “wanted by the authorities or potentially dangerous” from entering school grounds.

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s pick as Comptroller of the Currency, previously authored a thesis on Marxism, the only copy of which has reportedly been destroyed by Moscow State University.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Wednesday to declare the week of October 30 as “non-working,” so workers can stay home and slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) revealed in its weekly Chinese coronavirus report on Tuesday that the world had experienced a four-percent drop in cases, a trend contradicted by case rises and new restrictions in China and Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded “effective financial humanitarian support” from the international community for the brutal Taliban regime in remarks on Wednesday.

A 37-year-old performer was killed on-stage by falling scenery during a Moscow opera this weekend, Russian media reports said.

Russia has invited the Taliban to attend an October 20 meeting in Moscow alongside representatives from China, India, Iran, and Pakistan to discuss the geopolitical situation in Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Thursday.

Poland´s prime minister on Friday expressed support for the army troops and the border guards protecting the frontier with Belarus.

U.S. intelligence reports that Russia is an ongoing threat to the U.S., but John Kerry will talk about climate change in Moscow nonetheless.

The Kremlin on Friday blamed Russians’ alleged nihilistic attitudes for Moscow’s surging Chinese coronavirus caseload, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

New Delhi agreed on Tuesday to produce “additional” Russian military equipment in India during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi.

Ukrainian media on Wednesday accused Russia of escalating violence in the Donbass region and continuing to move large amounts of military hardware to the Ukrainian border using highways and railroads.

A viral video shows a Golden Retriever grab a microphone out of a reporter’s hand recently while she was live on camera, the Khaleej Times reported Sunday.

Facial recognition technology in the Moscow Metro has aided in the arrest of more than 900 people over the past six months, the Metro press service told Russian state media outlet Tass on Tuesday.

India’s foreign secretary will visit Moscow for two days starting Wednesday as part of New Delhi’s efforts to re-establish close relations with Russia, its traditional ally.

Russian police detained over 1,000 people Tuesday after thousands of protesters took to the streets across Russia to denounce the prison sentence of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced that day.

The promotion of unauthorized rallies in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in recent days has been “unacceptable” and the work of “certain provocateurs,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that, following successful cooperation with U.S. authorities, they had recently seized large quantities of cocaine and broken up an international drug-smuggling ring.

Russian authorities admitted on Monday that the number of fatalities from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is three times higher than previously reported, according to the government-run statistics agency Rosstat. 

The Kremlin is planning a mass rollout of Russia’s domestically produced Chinese coronavirus vaccine with incoculations of teachers and medics likely to start next week, President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Wednesday. 

Russia laments the rise of so-called “Russiaphobia” in the current U.S. presidential election, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced Friday, in response to questions about Moscow in Thursday’s presidential debate.

Authorities in Russia are recruiting rare dogs they claim can smell individuals infected with the Chinese coronavirus, The Moscow Times revealed in a report Monday.

Authorities in Russia seized the apartment and froze the bank accounts of dissident Alexei Navalny’s apartment days after his release from a German hospital after doctors believe he was poisoned with a Russian chemical agent, his spokeswoman revealed on Thursday.

The defense ministers of India and China met for diplomatic talks on Friday in Moscow amid a recently escalated border dispute between the two countries in the Western Himalayas.

Security forces in Belarus said they arrested 32 Russian “mercenaries” near the capital city of Minsk on Wednesday for allegedly trying to disrupt the nation’s August 9 presidential elections, Voice of America (VOA) reported Thursday.