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The Russian-appointed head of Ukraine’s Kherson region said Thursday that the area will “soon become part” of the Russian Federation.

De-facto governor Volodymyr Saldo was installed by Russian forces after they took control of the southern Ukrainian region in early March.

“We are looking at the Russian Federation as our own country because it is u

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McDonald’s will sell its Russian restaurants to Siberian businessman Alexander Govor, the U.S. fast-food giant announced Thursday.

Govor, who co-owns oil firm NefteKhimServis, already operates 25 of the chain’s restaurants in Russia.

Once approved by regulators, the deal will see the 62-year-old take over all 850 McDonald’s locations within Russia u

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Ukrainian prosecutors on Thursday requested a life sentence for the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes since the start of Moscow's invasion, AFP journalists in the courtroom reported.

The prosecution asked the judge to sentence the 21-year-old Russian army sergeant to "life imprisonment" for killing 62-year-old civilian Oleksandr

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Russia had taken steps to prepare itself for a food crisis even before President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine, a Kremlin aide said on Thursday.

Russia and Ukraine alone produce 30 percent of the global wheat supply.

Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine and a barrage of unprecedented international sanctions on Russia have disrupted

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Russia is approaching Chinese companies to join in its bid to revive the Soviet-era Moskvitch car, the Vedomosti business dailyreported Thursday, citing two unnamed sources.

The report comes days after Moscow’s mayor announced plans to bring back the Moskvitch (Muscovite) by nationalizing a Renault majority-owned factory that the French automaker h

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Timofei Voronov, 21, a cultural studies student at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE), was summoned to see the prestigious university’s deputy head in March after being detained at an anti-war rally.

Along with several other students, Voronov was shown a list of new laws at the March meeting, including those that mandate long jail sentences