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Russian Orthodox priests drove around the western Bryansk area with a religious icon in an attempt to secure it from a possible Ukrainian attack, the local diocese said. Today's prayer was for the redemption of our fatherland and our native Bryansk area from opponent intrusion, the diocese of Bryansk stated in a social networks post published late

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 04 September 2024

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The share of Russians who believe that authorities did everything they could to save the hostages in the Beslan school tragedy has reached its highest level in a decade, according to a new survey by the independent Levada Center pollster.

On Sept. 1, 2004, militants from Chechnya took over 1,100 civilians hostage at Beslan School No. 1 in Russia’s N

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 04 September 2024

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At least 51 people were killed and hundreds wounded Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, authorities said, in one of the single deadliest strikes of the two-and-a-half-year war.

Kyiv said the strike hit a military education facility and a nearby hospital, though authorities did not say how many of the victims were

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 04 September 2024

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A Moscow court sentenced leading Russian hypersonic flight researcher Alexander Shiplyuk to 15 years in a maximum-security prison on charges of treason, the independent news website Mediazona reported Tuesday.Shiplyuk, 57, headed Siberia's Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and was one of three institute members apprehended in between 2022

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A Moscow court on Tuesday extended the detention of a French researcher implicated of gathering info about the Russian military and breaching the nation's laws on foreign representatives. Laurent Vinatier, who worked for a Swiss dispute mediation NGO before he was apprehended in Moscow in June, faces up to five years in jail if founded guilty of the

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The pressure of Western sanctions saw Russia scramble to maintain its market power as a key energy exporter, as well as preserve the supply of technologies necessary for its military and civilian sectors.

Domestically, this has meant Russia's increasing state control over the economy, coupled with a tolerance of "grey" schemes to evade sanctions an