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Around 650,000 Russians have left the country and not returned since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a new report by the independent business news outlet The Bell, citing migration data from dozens of countries.

Russia saw two waves of outward migration in 2022 — one initially after the start of the invasion

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Last month’s deadly attacks on Orthodox churches and synagogues in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan have renewed the debate over introducing a nationwide legal ban on the niqab, a full-face veil worn by some Muslim women.

The debate was triggered by a report that one of the armed assailants had planned to escape from the manhunt by

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Authorities in Russia have issued an arrest warrant for exiled investigative journalist Andrei Zakharov, the independent news website Mediazonareported Wednesday, citing the Interior Ministry’s database of wanted persons.

The database does not specify what criminal charges Zakharov faces, but Mediazona noted that he was previously charged with

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Updated with restrictions in Krasnodar.

Power was restored across southern Russia early Wednesday after a malfunction at a major nuclear plant the day before led to sweeping outages and emergency restrictions across the region.

A power unit at the Rostov nuclear plant automatically shut down on Tuesday afternoon due to a “false alarm” in the turbine

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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Piet Ploeg lost his brother Alex, his brother’s wife Edith and their son Robert while they were traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in 2014.

They were among the passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when it was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people on board.

The remains of Ploeg’s sister-in-law and his

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 18 July 2024

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The governor of Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine said Tuesday that public access to 14 border towns will be restricted due to continuous bombardment.The statement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin released a May ground offensive on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region that he said was intended to produce a buffer zone to