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UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday.

They include museums and monuments, churches and other religious buildings, and libraries and other exceptional buildings, UNESCO said in an update of its efforts to

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 23 June 2022

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Russia plans to replace the badly damaged Azovstal steel plant in the captured Ukrainian port city of Mariupol with either an industrial park or a leisure zone, a Russian minister said Wednesday.

Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said rebuilding was already underway the site, which became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance after its outnumbered

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 23 June 2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s global ratings have sunk to 20-year lows as thousands of Ukrainians are being killed and millions displaced in Russia’s invasion entering its fourth month, according to a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday.

A median of 90% of respondents in 18 countries said they have no confidence In Putin “to do the r

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Renowned Russian film director Alexander Sokurov was prevented from leaving Russia due to “an order of the prime minister,” the director told Russian independent news outlet The Insider.

Sokurov planned to cross the Russian-Finnish border by car and then fly to a conference on arts education in Milan. He was scheduled to appear on June 22. His trip

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EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region despite fierce resistance from Kyiv's military.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had been conducting a "telephone marathon" on his country's

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 23 June 2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a strengthening of ties with the influential club of BRICS emerging economies, amid unprecedented Western sanctions imposed over Ukraine.

"Businessmen of our countries are forced to develop their business under difficult conditions where Western partners neglect the basic principles of market