Like other infrastructure tasks in the U.S.S.R., the Krapivinskaya hydropower plant was born at a time when the Soviets imagined flexing the natural world to its will to fuel industrial development. Years later, this rusting hulk of concrete and iron still looms above the Tom River in Siberia's coal-rich Kemerovo region, half-finished and h

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At least six former and current law enforcement officials have been arrested on various charges in Russia’s third-largest city of Yekaterinburg over the past week, the independent news website Govorit NeMoskvareported Friday.

Andrei Dyakov, who heads the anti-corruption department at the Sverdlovsk region branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry, was c

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Romanian prosecutors announced Friday that they had ordered the arrest of a man suspected of spying for Moscow, while the government declared a Russian diplomat persona non grata.

The arrest of a person suspected of spying marks the first of its kind in Romania since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.

Prosecutors said

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Russian forces have ended up being slowed down attempting to catch the Ukrainian border town of Vovchansk, Ukraine's leading basic Oleksandr Syrsky said Friday, though combating on the eastern front stays intense.Kyiv has actually been trying to push back against a Russian ground attack in the northeastern Kharkiv area since May 10, when countless Russian

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President Vladimir Putin is looking for to work out a ceasefire handle Ukraine that recognizes the current battleground lines, Reutersreported Friday, pointing out numerous anonymous sources familiar with the matter.Reports about Putin's alleged interest in looking for some type of truce arrangement have circulated for months, however the latest comes as Moscow

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The current arrests of 5 leading Russian military officers are likely simply the first of lots of military figures who will be imprisoned in a sweeping purge by the security services, Russian government officials and sources close to the Kremlin and the Defense Ministry informed The Moscow Times.Ostensibly an effort to mark out military corruption, the

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