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Russia's 2024 local and community elections ended in few surprises, with the judgment, pro-Kremlin United Russia celebration solidifying its control in over 4,000 races across the country, including in occupied Ukrainian territories.With the invasion of Ukraine in its 3rd year, the Kremlin efficiently banned any independent opposition candidates and thinned

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 10 September 2024

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Much of the left residents of southwestern Russia's Kursk area have actually not yet received payments promised by President Vladimir Putin over one month into Ukraine's surprise attack, the independent news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday, citing regional volunteers. On Aug. 8, two days after Ukrainian forces crossed into the area and

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 10 September 2024

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Latvia's armed forces on Monday said the Russian drone that crashed on the Baltic state's territory was an Iranian-designed Shahed equipped with explosives.

Riga had earlier announced that investigators were looking into a drone that had crashed in the eastern part of the country on Saturday.

Latvia, which was once ruled by the Soviet Union but is

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 10 September 2024

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The Kremlin stated Monday that it would not approve an interview with President Vladimir Putin to Wall Street Journal press reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was launched by Russia this summer season in a prisoner swap.Gershkovich made a handwritten demand to interview Putin while completing a form requesting a governmental pardon ahead of the prisoner exchange,

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A little propeller-powered aircraft crashed during a training flight at an airfield in the Moscow region, killing the two pilots on board, authoritiessaid Monday.The Aviatik Alliance Aleks-251 twin-engine airplane crashed near the Vatulino airfield in the town of Ruza, around 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Moscow.The transportation arm of Russia's I

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Alexander Maslyakov, one of the best-known and best-loved television personalities of the Soviet and modern-day Russian era, passed away at age 82 on Sunday. His death was reported by the video game show KVN, which Maslyakov hosted from 1964 to 2022. Maslyakov had been diagnosed with cancer previously this year. KVN, which stands for Club of the Fun-Loving and Q