An over night drone attack set numerous oil storage tanks ablaze near the town of Azov in southern Russia on Tuesday, stimulating a big fire, regional authorities stated. Oil product tanks caught fire in Azov as a result of a drone attack. According to preliminary findings, there were no casualties, the Rostov region governor Vasily Golubev said on

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Russian President Vladimir Putin designated a woman the West has called his close relative to a leading Defense Ministry post on Monday as part of a continuous shake-up of Russia's military leadership.The visit comes after Putin removed his longtime defense chief Sergei Shoigu last month, changing him with economist Andrey Belousov, and

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‘One Name, One Life, One Plaque&: Russian Project Installs Reminders of Soviet Repressions
‘One Name, One Life, One Plaque&: Russian Project Installs Reminders of Soviet Repressions

Sergei Tyutryumov was executed by shooting on March 7, 1938. He was 33 years old.

Soviet authorities accused him of “counter-revolutionary” activities and “anti-Soviet agitation aimed at undermining the authority of Soviet power.”

Two years prior, Tyutryumov, a descendant of a noble family, moved to the Siberian city of Tomsk to work as a history

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea this week, the Kremlin announced Monday, confirming previously reported travel plans that come amid suspicions in the West that Pyongyang is supplying Moscow with weapons for use in Ukraine.

Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday, his second trip to the isolated country since he first came to

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More than 120 people sought medical help and at least 30 are in intensive care following a suspected outbreak of a rare and extremely dangerous food poisoning in Moscow, health officials said Monday.

The patients were admitted to the hospital with suspected foodborne botulism, a life-threatening condition that attacks the nervous system and can

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday that it apprehended a previous Agriculture Ministry main accused of embezzling billions of rubles more than a years ago.Law enforcement agents apprehended Oleg Donskikh-- who headed one of the Agriculture Ministry's departments till 2012-- in the Moscow area after he had been on the run for 12 yea

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