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President Vladimir Putin has actually selected the long-serving Russian Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev as a governmental aide, the Kremlinannounced Tuesday.Patrushev, 73, was dismissed on Sunday after serving 16 years as head of Russia's Security Council, an executive branch body that encourages the president on tactical and security issues.Long

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Rescue employees on Tuesday recovered a female's body from underneath the rubble of an apartment building in the western Russian city of Belgorod that collapsed after being struck by a Ukrainian rocket over the weekend, raising the death toll in the attack to 16. Another victim was discovered dead at the site of the collapse of a domestic structure e

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Russia's state-owned rail company said Tuesday that a freight train derailed overnight near the southern city of Volgograd due to suspected sabotage.

"Due to the intervention of unauthorized persons, wagons from a freight train derailed [in the town of]... Kotluban," the local branch of Russian Railways said.

Kotluban is around 300 kilometers from

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Updated to add the Investigative Committee's confirmation.Russian police authorities have jailed another senior Defense Ministry authorities on criminal bribery accusations, the country's Investigative Committee validated Tuesday.Lieutenant-General Yury Kuznetsov, who heads the Defense Ministry's workers directorate, has been placed in p

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President Vladimir Putin will visit China today at the invite of his Chinese equivalent Xi Jinping, the Kremlin revealed Tuesday, in the Russian leader's first journey abroad because being sworn into his fifth term. The 2 leaders will go over a wide range of issues concerning their extensive collaboration and tactical cooperation, i

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An economic expert and technocrat without any military background, Russia's new Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has actually been tasked with deploying his number-crunching abilities and bureaucratic oversight to secure Russian success versus Ukraine.Belousov has been one of President Vladimir Putin's most trusted and prominent consultants and is commonly seen as his