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A court in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg sentenced a man to eight years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a Gabonese student last year, local media reported Monday.

Earlier this month, state prosecutors had requested an 11-year sentence for Daniil Fomin, who was charged with murdering François Ndjelassili in August 2023.

Ndjelassili had

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 19 September 2024

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Authorities in southwestern Russia's Kursk region on Monday bought the necessary evacuation of two more districts along the border with Ukraine, as Kyiv's forces stay in control of a big swath of Russian territory despite Moscow's counteroffensive efforts. The regional crisis center has actually chosen to mandate the evacuation of towns in the Rylsky

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As Russia lays the groundwork for deeper engagement with Central Asia, with a fresh presidential summit reportedly in the works, countries in the region are trying to maintain economic distance from their larger neighbor to the north.

In one of the latest examples, Kyrgyzstan’s central bank on Sept. 6 banned the settlement of trade contracts unless

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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday increasing the number of soldiers in the Russian armed force by 180,000, bringing the total variety of active servicemen to 1.5 million for this upcoming winter.The decree, which takes effect Dec. 1, sets the general variety of military workers within Russia's army at 2,389,139, including 1.5 million

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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Monday that his country will seriously consider claims that Russian-Israeli businessmanLeonid Nevzlin ordered an attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov.

“We will always support the opposition as they fight against the Putin regime, and we will carefully examine all claims about who organized what,” Nauseda tol

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Russian police authorities charged two more military officers with taking allurements, private investigators said Monday, the current in a string of arrests connected to declared corruption in Russia's Defense Ministry.Ivan Populovsky, the head of a military representative's workplace, and his subordinate, Grigory Zorin, apparently got over 11 million