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Russia fired dozens of drones and missiles at Ukraine on Monday, ripping open a housing bloc in Kyiv, killing 10 civilians and burying others beneath the rubble.

A flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the three-year-long war have stalled, with the last direct meeting between Kyiv and Moscow coming almost three weeks ago and no follow-up talks

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Russia blamed a venue dispute for the cancellation of a planned third round of talks with the United States last week, which officials in Moscow previously said would be focused on restoring the operations of each side’s diplomatic missions.

“There was an agreement to meet at a specific location. For certain reasons, that location didn’t suit [U.S.

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The world around you collapsed in a second and all of a sudden everything became risky-- like you get up one early morning and they inform you that you're now a second-class resident, one queer woman from St. Petersburg told The Moscow Times.Since Russia's Supreme Court stated the so-called worldwide LGBT motion extremist one-and-a-half years ago des

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Police in St. Petersburg arrested at least 219 cyclists over the weekend after a mass late-night ride on the city’s Vasilievsky Island, local media reported Sunday.

Around 400 riders had gathered near Alexander Volodin Square on Saturday night when residents complained of “brawling, shouting, walking on lawns and outrageous behavior,” according to t

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Russia prepares to increase the number of university areas reserved for trainees from North Korea, the head of state-funded cultural diplomacy agency Rossotrudnichestvo said.Moscow and Pyongyang have deepened political, military and cultural ties considering that Russia's full-scale intrusion of Ukraine, with a mutual defense pact signed last December. There is

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The Kremlin on Monday said it “deeply regrets” U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend, adding that it had not been informed in advance and expressing support for Tehran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the strikes an “unprovoked aggression that has no justification” in his first public remarks on the incident, del