The United States has handed a three-year prison sentence to a Russian businessman who admitted to smuggling military-grade electronics to Russia, the U.S. Justice Departmentannounced Wednesday.

Maxim Marchenko, who lived and operated several companies in Hong Kong, was arrested in September andpleaded guilty to smuggling and money laundering in a

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Russia’s Constitutional Court has banned the euthanasia of stray animals unless they pose a direct threat to humans, state mediareported Thursday.

“Killing animals without owners is an extraordinary measure, which is justified only when others cannot ensure an adequate level of protection of a person, their rights and freedoms and public safety,” Ru

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Timur Kamaev, a prominent Imam from Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, found himself at the center of a nationwide scandal this week after releasing a video in which he appears to instruct believers on the proper ways to beat one’s wife. 

Released on Monday as a part of the Tea With Hazrat podcast series, the original video has since been removed by

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Russia's Defense Ministry stated on Thursday morning that it had downed lots of Ukrainian aerial and waterborne drones targeting the annexed Crimean peninsula in an overnight attack. Air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 33 aerial drones over ... Crimea, the ministry said in a declaration, adding that forces in the Black Sea
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Updated with AFP report.

The espionage trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich resumed on Thursday morning behind closed doors in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, local media reported.

The hearing was originally set to resume on Aug. 13, but Gershkovich’s defense lawyers had requested the date be moved up.

Thursday’s hearing is c

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President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that unregulated cryptocurrency mining risks overloading Russia’s electrical grid and causing widespread power outages.

“An uncontrolled increase in electricity consumption for mining cryptocurrencies can lead to power shortages in certain regions,” Putin told senior government officials at a meeting foc

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