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Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that two prisoner exchanges have taken place since its military action in Ukraine began last month.

"Russia's Defense Ministry organizes daily humanitarian corridors and the evacuation of civilians from residential areas," the Foreign Ministry said on its website.

"In addition, two prisoner exchanges between

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The Kremlin’s climate envoy and veteran reformer Anatoly Chubais has quit his position and left Russia over his opposition to the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

The bombshell departure, according to two unnamed insiders cited by Bloomberg, makes Chubais the highest-profile figure to break with President Vladimir Putin over his

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Russia’s main stock market will resume trading Thursday for the first time in four weeks, the Central Bank announced Wednesday.

The Moscow Exchange has been closed since Feb. 25 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of tough financial sanctions on Moscow. It is the longest suspension of trading since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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VORONEZH — On a cold March morning in a southern Russian suburb, several dozen people gathered at a church to say goodbye to one of their own.

Inside a coffin wrapped in the Russian flag and the paratroopers’ standard lay 21-year-old Kirill Ulyashev — one of the many Russian servicemen believed to have died in Moscow’s nearly month-long “special mil

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Poland on Wednesday said it had expelled 45 Russian diplomats for espionage, an allegation immediately dismissed as baseless by Russia's ambassador to Poland.

Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski made the announcement on Twitter.

"Poland has expelled 45 Russian spies pretending to be diplomats," he wrote. "We are dismantling the Russian special

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Some of Russia’s leading opposition figures have launched an anti-war committee to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from exile.

In videos shared on social media Wednesday, eight of the country’s leading opposition voices — including former oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Navalny ally Lyubov Sobol and former chess grandmaster Garry Kas