Ukrainian reporter Viktoria Roshchyna is being held in custody in Russia nine months after her disappearance, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) said, pointing out a letter from the Russian Defense Ministry to her father.Roshchyna, an acclaimed freelance journalist, went missing in August while trying to go into the
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Western companies are reconsidering leaving Russia amid increasing Kremlin-imposed exit costs, difficulty finding suitable buyers and rebounding consumer activity, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.

As of last month, 2,175 foreign companies remain in Russia compared with 1,610 that left or scaled back operations, according to the Kyiv School of

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Moldova has actually approved citizenship to a number of members of the Russian-Belarusian rock band Bi-2, the government in Chisinau announced late Monday, months after the music group was apprehended in Thailand and faced possible deportation to Russia.President Maia Sandu signed a decree providing Moldovan passports to specific members of Bi-2, her office chief
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Poland announced Monday it will restrict Russian diplomats' movements on its soil, prompting Moscow to pledge retaliatory measures.

The announcement came after Poland detained several people suspected of planning sabotage attacks on behalf of Russian security services.

The new measures will restrict the movement of consular staff to the Warsaw

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GOMA, Congo — In a makeshift nightclub in the hull of the overnight ferry from Goma to Bukavu, a handful of teenage boys are trying out some new moves. Some land, some don’t. When they don’t, the elderly man on the bench next to us nudges us and rolls his eyes, amused. 

The DJ, who has so far been playing the usual Afrobeats hits and Congolese

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A Syrian national implicated of eliminating the Russian feminist and anti-war activist Anastasia Yemelyanova has actually been acquitted of a murder charge due to an absence of evidence against him, Turkish and Russian media reported Monday. Mohammad Nizar Arnabeh wasarrested in September after Yemelyanova, with whom he remained in a relationship at the time, was found
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