Russian energy giant Gazprom on Thursday announced a soaring net profit for 2021, boosted by high energy prices.

"The main factor that affected the financial result was an increase in gas and oil prices," the state-controlled group said in a statement.

"This resulted in an increase in sales and an increase in the cost of purchased gas and oil."

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Kazakhstan has admonished a pro-Kremlin television presenter after he unleashed a tirade against the ex-Soviet country over its perceived distancing from Moscow since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. 

Central Asia's richest country, Kazakhstan shares a land border with Russia, has a significant ethnic Russian minority and was forced to call in tro

Some 1,200 Syrian and Russian mercenaries have been pulled out of Libya as Moscow’s protracted invasion of Ukraine begins to place strain on the country’s military, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

Unnamed Libyan officials told FT that 1,000 Syrians and 200 Russians from the Wagner Group had been moved from the war-torn North African country