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A dual U.S.-Russian resident standing trial for having actually contributed money to a Ukrainian charity pleaded guilty to treason charges, her lawyer informed state media on Wednesday.Ksenia Karelina was apprehended in January while visiting her household in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. She faces up to 20 years in jail if condemned of treason. She a

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 08 August 2024

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President Vladimir Putinsaid Wednesday that Ukraine was carrying out “indiscriminate” attacks on civilians during cross-border incursions into southwestern Russia’s Kursk region that triggered a regionwide state of emergency.

“The Kyiv regime has launched another large-scale provocation, firing indiscriminately with various types of weapons, i

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 08 August 2024

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Residents of Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine are appealing to authorities for help with evacuating and accusing them of taking insufficient action as an apparent attack by Kyiv’s forces continued for a second day.

While armed militants from Ukraine have conducted multiple incursions into Russia’s border regions since last year in r

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 08 August 2024

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Russia’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday denied reports that Ukrainian forces made significant advances into the southwestern Kursk region amid ongoing clashes along the border.

“Air strikes, missile forces, artillery fire and a swift response by units defending the state border in the Kursk region prevented the enemy from advancing deep into the t

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The video streaming platform of the Russian social media business VK has actually seen a surge in downloads over the previous week as playback speeds on YouTube plunge in an evident effort by the authorities to throttle the website. VK Video app downloads rose 4.5 times in the very first week of August compared to July's month-to-month average, reaching more than 250

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A Russian military blogger who criticized Moscow's conduct in the Ukraine war was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for spreading "fakes" about the army, the Moscow court system's press service said Wednesday.

Andrei Kurshin, a former soldier, accused Russia of cutting off water access to civilians near the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih and