President Vladimir Putin has stopped visiting his house in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi due to worries of a fatal drone attack, the independent investigative outlet Proekt reported Monday. Putin has been spending at least 30 days per year at the Bocharov Ruchey residence given that it was refurbished for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and likely remained

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A Russian court sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. resident accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine to nearly seven years in prison on Monday.Stephen Hubbard was sentenced to six years and 10 months by the Moscow City Court. The bearded offender stood uncomfortably as the sentence was read out.He was founded guilty of working as a mercenary in the war in

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Southwestern Russia's Belgorod region is using an across the country record of 3 million rubles ($31,200) in one-time payments for signing military agreements to fight in Ukraine, authoritiessaid Monday. The payment will amount to 3 million rubles from all sources: the federal, local, municipal spending plans and extra-budgetary funds, Governor Vyacheslav Gl

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Hackers targeted Russian state media giant VGTRK on Monday, disrupting its online broadcasting, the state-run Gazeta.ru news outlet reported. 

VGTRK operates several national television channels, including Rossia 1 and Rossia 24, in addition to more than 80 regional television and radio stations. 

“Online broadcasting and internal services are down,

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Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed the “Merchant of Death,” has made a comeback to the arms trading business and is seeking to broker sales of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Bout, 57, was freed in a December 2022 prisoner swap with U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Throughout

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Ukraine insists the strikes are fair retaliation for Russian attacks on its own energy infrastructure that have plunged millions into darkness.

Russia's Defense Ministry meanwhile claimed the capture of a village in eastern Ukraine close to the strategically important city of Pokrovsk.

The Defense Ministry in a briefing said it captured the village

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