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Only 15 Russian athletes will take part in the Paris Olympics after the International Olympic Committee banned athletes from Russia and Belarus from competing under their own flag. These athletes will be allowed to compete as “individual neutral athletes.”

The IOC says there are strict conditions for Russian or Belarusian athletes to be eligible to

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 27 July 2024

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A recent volcanic eruption in Far East Russia has blanketed the remote landscape of a major nature preserve with ash, the Kamchatka peninsula’s park servicesaid Friday.

Bezymyanny volcano, one of Kamchatka’s most active,erupted on Wednesday, with ash spewing up to 12 kilometers into the Earth’s atmosphere and plumes extending around 2,500 k

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 27 July 2024

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A store owner in St. Petersburg who was jailed last year for publicly opposing the war in Ukraine was released from prison on Friday, local media reported.

In August 2023, Dmitry Skurikhin was ordered to spend one year and six months in prison for “discrediting” the Russian military after he painted his store in pacifist slogans.

He was arrested

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 27 July 2024

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The Kremlin's spokesman on Friday said Moscow had not been informed of the arrest in France of a Russian man over a suspected "destabilization" plot targeting the Paris Olympics.

The man was detained Tuesday in Paris but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that France had not informed Russian officials.

"We have no information. We saw

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 27 July 2024

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The EU on Friday said 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) had been provided to support Ukraine, the first piece of money made from earnings on frozen Russian assets.EU member states had actually concurred in May to utilize billions of euros in benefit from frozen Russian Central Bank assets to help arm Ukraine and money its post-war reconstruction.The EU froze

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Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov has been arrested on corruption charges, Russian law enforcement authorities announced on Friday, adding that the army general was moved to a detention center in Moscow.

Bulgakov, 69, is the seventh high-ranking Defense Ministry official to have been arrested since April in an apparent purge of the