Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery on Monday unveiled Ilya Repin’s 19th-century masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible after nearly seven years of painstaking and pioneering restoration work.

“Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” wasripped in three places when an intoxicated museum visitor attacked it with a metal pole in May 2018. The man, who said he was

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All crew members of a Russian-flagged oil tanker damaged during a heavy storm wererescued on Monday, completing rescue efforts that were delayed overnight due to bad weather.Volgoneft 239 was damaged alongside Volgoneft 212, which divided in half and sank, when the tankers were caught in a storm in the Kerch Strait on Sunday, triggering an oil spill
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Ukraine said early Monday that its troops killed or wounded at least 30 North Korean soldiers deployed in western Russia's Kursk region over the weekend.

Kyiv and Western officials claim that thousands of North Korean soldiers were sent to reinforce Russian forces, including in the Kursk border region where Moscow has tried to claw back territory

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Russia mounted a rescue effort Sunday after two oil tankers were wrecked in rough seas off Moscow-annexed Crimea and one broke apart, killing at least one sailor and causing an oil spill.

One of the tankers, Volgoneft-212, was transporting approximately 4,300 tons of fuel oil. According to Telegram channel Mash, which is believed to have links to

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Russia's Foreign Ministry stated it had evacuated a few of its diplomatic personnel from Syria on Sunday, a week after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. On December 15, the withdrawal of part of the workers of the Russian [diplomatic] representation in Damascus was carried out by an unique flight of the Russian Air Force from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria,
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Russia on Sunday stated its forces had caught towns in 2 crucial frontline locations of eastern Ukraine as they advance towards the supply hub of Pokrovsk and the commercial town of Kurakhove.The defense ministry stated in an everyday briefing that soldiers had actually freed the town of Vesely Gai south of Kurakhove and the town of Pushkine south of
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