Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Russia was "playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners" after Moscow accused Kyiv of downing a military plane carrying dozens of its own captured soldiers.

Moscow said 74 people died — 65 of them Ukrainian prisoners of war being flown to a scheduled exchange — when a military transport pl

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Russian forces entered the war-battered town of Avdiivka for the first time but were pushed back, its mayor told AFP Wednesday, following months of fierce fighting for the industrial hub in east Ukraine.

Moscow in October launched a costly bid to wrest control of the town which has been on the front line of fighting between Ukraine and

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VILNIUS, Lithuania-- Not Only Coffee, a small coffee bar in the bohemian district of Užupis, has actually seen an extraordinary flow of visitors to its basement in the past two days. The basement, which is usually neglected by visitors, now serves as a collection point for signatures backing Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin, whose stance against
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The head of Far East Russia’s republic of Buryatia on Wednesday submitted a bill to the region's parliament that aims to scrap mayoral elections in the capital city of Ulan-Ude.

Instead of direct elections, Buryatia’s head Alexei Tsydenov proposed that the mayor of Ulan-Ude be elected by the city council, a local legislature. 

Regional deputies are e

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An Il-76 aircraft crashed Wednesday morning in western Russia's Belgorod region which borders Ukraine, killing everyone on board.

Footage posted on social media showed what appears to be a large plane falling from the sky and then crashing.

The plane was said to have crashed near the town of Yablonovo less than 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian

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Japan in December imported the highest monthly volume of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in seven years, the RBC news websitereported Wednesday, citing data from the Japanese Finance Ministry.

Japan is among the world’s largest LNG importers, with Australia, Malaysia and Qatar supplying two-thirds of the energy source, while Russia accounts

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  2. Russia's State Duma Moves to Seize Property of Army Critics
  3. Amid Sweeping Arrests, Russia’s Bashkortostan Braces for Further Protests
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