Georgian-Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, known for his towering and often controversial public monuments, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported Tuesday.

He passed away at his home in Peredelkino, a village southwest of Moscow, “surrounded by his works,” his assistant Sergei Shagulashvili told the RIA Novosti news agency.

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Russian hackers targeted a public facility in the Netherlands last year in the first known cyberattack on the country’s infrastructure, the Dutch military intelligence service said Monday.

The Netherlands remains an “attractive target” for Moscow due to its ongoing support for Ukraine, its Hague-based international institutions, its high-tech ind

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Russian movie critic Yekaterina Barabash fled home arrest and stopped working to appear at her trial on charges of spreading out deliberately incorrect details about the Russian army, state media reported Monday, mentioning anonymous sources knowledgeable about the case.Barabash, 64, was put under home arrest in February over social media posts in which she
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A court in Russia's Sverdlovsk region has sentenced a man to 12 years in a high-security penal colony for donating about $25 to the Ukrainian military, the independent Mediazona news website reported Monday.

Prosecutors alleged that Yevgeny Varaksin, 27, a resident of the closed city of Lesnoy, transferred 100 Polish zlotys “to finance the Armed F

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Central Russia saw dramatic temperature swings throughout April, fluctuating well above and below seasonal norms, the country’s chief meteorologist told state media Tuesday.

“It’s an extremely unique April because the weather fluctuated from one extreme to the other,” said Roman Vilfand, head of research at the Russian meteorological service Rosgi

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Russian left-wing activist Sergei Udaltsov went on trial Monday on charges of validating terrorism online, a charge that carries a sentence of up to 7 years in prison. The trial has actually begun. The indictment has actually been revealed. Sergei pleaded not guilty, state news company RIA Novosti priced estimate Udaltsov's lawyer, Dmitry Agranovsky, as saying.The
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