Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing visited Moscow Tuesday, Russian media reported, as the U.S. vowed to put pressure on his military regime over a 2021 coup. 

Russia's Embassy in Myanmar told the Interfax news agency that Hlaing was in Moscow on a "private" visit. 

"He plans to take part in the opening of a Myanmar cultural center," it said. 

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Russia has registered its first case of monkeypox, federal health authorities confirmed Tuesday.

“The infection was found in a young man who came back from a trip through European countries and went to a medical facility with a characteristic rash,” state consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said in a statement. 

Rospotrebnadzor said the

Around 150 soldiers from a Siberian region with one of the highest military death tolls in the Ukraine war have refused deployment, a prominent activist has said.

The men returned home to the republic of Buryatia over the weekend after their wives pleaded for their return in a rare video appeal last month, according to Alexandra Garmazhapova, who