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Kamila Valieva's doping restriction has actually resulted in the Russia Olympic Committee group being demoted from the gold to bronze medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics team skating event, the International Skating Union (ISU) stated Tuesday.The then 15-year-old's positive test in December 2021, for which she got a 4 year restriction on Monday, has actually led the ISU to

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 February 2024

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The EU has agreed on a first step toward tapping profits from frozen Russian assets to help pay for the reconstruction of wartorn Ukraine, officials said.

The agreement moves forward a long and legally fraught debate about how to use Russian state assets that were blocked by Western institutions in the wake of Moscow's full-scale invasion of

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The Kremlin on Tuesday called for a de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East after Washington vowed to react to an attack in Jordan that left 3 U.S. military servicemen dead. In our view, the overall level of stress is extremely alarming and, on the contrary, now is the time for steps to de-escalate stress, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov

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Jailed Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason and “fake news” about the war in Ukraine, has been transferred to a new penal colony and placed in a solitary confinement cell, the independent news outlet Novaya Gazeta reported Tuesday, citing his lawyer.

The news comes just a day after

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Information recovered from the “black boxes” of the Russian Il-76 military transport plane that crashed near the border with Ukraine last week indicates the aircraft was shot down, the state-run news agency TASSreported Tuesday, citing an anonymous security agency source.

“The data from the black boxes exclude all [other] possible versions of the I

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The anti-war Russian-Belarusian rock band Bi-2said Tuesday that its members face deportation from Thailand after they performed a concert on the resort island of Phuket last week.

Seven members of Bi-2, some of whom are dual citizens of Israel and Australia, were detained by Thai immigration authorities on Wednesday following the Phuket concert.

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