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Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that he and other prisoners in his jail colony are forced to listen to pro-war and anti-Semitic songs several times a day as part of the jail's re-education efforts.Navalny is serving his prison term in the IK-6 jail in the Vladimir area east of Moscow, a center understood for its severe

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A Moscow court on Tuesday declined to launch a theatre director and a playwright detained over their award-winning play about Russian women recruited online to marry radical Islamists in Syria.Director Yevgeniya Berkovich and author Svetlana Petriychuk are accused of validating terrorism and confront seven years in prison over their play

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Russia on Tuesday told the West to stop its "deceitful propaganda" after more than 30 peacekeepers deployed in a NATO-led mission in Kosovo were injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs.

Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, but Belgrade and Moscow have refused to recognize it.

Russia, Serbia's traditional ally, also effectively barred

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Authorities in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar on Monday banned the use of foreign languages on public signage, local media reported.

Krasnodar's legislative assembly voted in the new rules, which will come into effect on Sept. 1.

Mayor Yevgeny Naumov said that the changes would help unite “the architectural appearance of the regional ca

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Updated to add more details on the attacks, eyewitness accounts and context.

Moscow was targeted by a swarm of drones early Tuesday morning, marking the first time that unmanned aerial vehicles have struck residential areas of the Russian capital since the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.

The attack on Moscow, located more than

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The leader of Moldova's breakaway area said on Thursday that his government would interest the UN Security Council to penetrate a horror attack and ensure the security of Transnistria.Pro-Russian authorities in the region earlier on Thursday implicated Kyiv of preparing such an attack, fueling worries of a spillover of the Ukraine conflict. I have