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The head of the Russian armed force's clothing and food provider Voentorg was jailed on fraud charges, law enforcement authorities stated Thursday.Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said the CEO had participated in a criminal conspiracy with a number of other people to sell toiletry packages to the military at inflated prices. She did not discuss the

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 August 2024

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A house block in the Ural Mountains area of Sverdlovsk collapsed on Thursday morning after an obvious gas explosion, state media reported, citing emergency situation service officials.A big part of the five-story panel structure in the commercial city of Nizhny Taigil was totally torn to pieces, videos on social networks showed. Officials told

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 02 August 2024

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This short article was first released by Politika.Kozlov.Russia may be preparing to free in between 20 and 30 political detainees and journalists in an impending exchange with the United States and Germany, a source acquainted with the preparation said, in what, if validated, would be the largest swap given that completion of the Cold War.Previous reporting by

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 01 August 2024

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A member of Ukraine's Azov battalion has died in Russian custody, independent Russian media reported and Ukraine's human rights commissioner verified Wednesday.Oleksandr Ishchenko was amongst 24 former and current Azov members, consisting of 9 women, who were apprehended in southern Russia on terrorism charges in March-May 2022. Russia's Memorial human

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 01 August 2024

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Moscow’s forces consolidated their territorial gains in eastern Ukraine in July, taking control of almost 200 square kilometers (77 square miles) of land, or roughly the size of Washington D.C., according to an AFP analysis published on Wednesday.

The analysis, based on data from the Institute for the Study of War, shows an increase over the

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 01 August 2024

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A Slovenia court on Wednesday sentenced two Russian nationals suspected of spying for Moscow to more than a year and a half in prison but then ordered their expulsion from the country.

The couple, who went by the names of Ludwig Gisch and Maria Rosa Mayer Munos, pleaded guilty at Wednesday's hearing on charges of "spying and falsifying documents,"