Moscow is unaware of the missing Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov’s Russian citizenship and has not been approached by her relatives, the country’s ambassador in Iraqsaid Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s officesaid Wednesday that Tsurkov — an Israeli-Russian dual citizen — was being held by a pro-Iranian Shiite militia i

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Upgraded with Lobanov's comments toThe Moscow Times.Prominent Kremlin critic and trade union activist Mikhail Lobanov said Monday he had actually gotten away Russia, just hours after exposing that he was fired from a leading Moscow university. Our group decided: I am going on a long-term trip abroad, the activist wrote on the Telegram messaging app,

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President Vladimir Putin met with Russia's Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his fighters after their failed mutiny, the Kremlin verified Monday.Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov informed press reporters that Putin had actually welcomed Prigozhin and 34 Wagner leaders at the Kremlin on June 29. The leaders themselves outlined their variation of e

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Russia’s top military commander in Ukraine Valery Gerasimov on Monday made his first publicappearance following Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny last month.

Gerasimov was shown in a Defense Ministry video listening to reports and instructing subordinates on Russia’s response to increased Ukrainian missile attacks on Russian territory and annexed C

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov stated Sunday that his Akhmat military unit has actually been deployed to the site of tough battling in the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.Fighting has picked up near Bakhmut, the site of the longest battle of Russia's intrusion of Ukraine, in recent days regardless of the Wagner mercenary group declaring to have

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Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has actually won a 3rd term that will keep him in charge of the tightly managed, gas-rich Central Asian state until 2030, the electoral commission said on Monday.The 65-year-old has actually assured to open Uzbekistan to foreign investment and tourism and carry out major reforms in Central Asia's most populated country.Mirz

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