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MOSCOW – Alexei, a transgender man, had always planned to someday change the gender marker on his Russian passport — but time is now running out.

“I’m in a panic. The process of my gender transition had been delayed because I have been living on my own since I was 18 and I didn’t have enough money. Now I have to start it urgently,” Alexei, 23, told

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Russia will shutter Poland’s consulate in the western Russian city of Smolensk to reach “parity” in diplomatic presence, Russia’s governmenttold Interfax on Friday.

The Polish consulate in Smolensk was opened in 2011 to expand contacts between Russian and Polish citizens and to develop bilateral relations.

A government decree published Fridayorders R

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Lawmakers from the Russian parliament's lower-house State Duma on Friday approved a ban on legal and surgical sex changes.

The bill was passed in its third and final reading, banning "medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person" and "the state registration of a change of gender without an operation."

According to the legislation,

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President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that absolutely nothing had actually been done to meet Russian demands around a deal that permitted Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea. I wish to emphasize that absolutely nothing was done, nothing at all. It's all one-sided, Putin said in a televised interview.In July 2022, the agreement permitting Ukrainian grain exports to r

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Russian President Vladimir Putin provided Wagner mercenaries a possibility to continue serving after their failed mutiny, hesaid in comments to the Kommersant company daily late Thursday. Nothing would have changed for them, Putin stated, recalling a June 29 Kremlin conference with 35 Wagner officers and creator Yevgeny Prigozhin just five days after the ab

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Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Thursday that if Ukraine were to be admitted to NATO, it would make the world more vulnerable, after the bloc pledged closer integration with Kyiv at its summit today. I am sure that this will not increase the security of Ukraine itself, and in general will make the world far more susceptible and lead to