A court in Latvia has actually sentenced a pro-Kremlin activist to three years in prison for openly displaying Russian and Soviet flags, media reported Wednesday.Jelena Kreile has actually formerly been seen wearing pro-war symbols and holding pro-Russian signs at anti-war rallies in the Latvian capital of Riga. The Latvian-born housewife, who just speaks

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A Moscow court on Thursday declined an appeal by imprisoned human rights defender Oleg Orlov versus his jail time for criticizing the Kremlin's war versus Ukraine.Orlov, 71, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison this year on charges of discrediting the Russian military with his anti-war pickets and the 2022 short article entitled: They Wanted Fascism. T

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Russia will not attend a second planned international summit on peace in Ukraine because it will ignore Moscow’s proposals, a senior diplomat said Thursday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told the state-run news agency RIA Novosti that the first summit attended by more than 90 countries in Switzerland last month had “failed.” Moscow and its

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban informed the European Union that Russian and Chinese leaders anticipate Ukrainian peace talks by the end of 2024, the Spanish day-to-day El Paisreported Wednesday, citing his confidential reports submitted after going to the countries.One of President Vladimir Putin's closest Western partners, Orban has stimulated the ire of the E

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Kyiv said Thursday that it had actually taken a foreign cargo ship and detained its captain, alleging that the vessel had unlawfully exported Ukrainian grain from the annexed Crimean peninsula.Since Russia's capture of swaths of agricultural land in Ukraine in early 2022, Kyiv has accused Moscow of unlawfully gathering and delivering grain produced on

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Editors' NoteThe Moscow Times was established in 1992 in Russia with the mission of providing independent, top quality news about the country, freshly emerged from the Soviet Union, to English speakers.For over 30 years, we have remained real to this mission, expanding with a Russian-language service in January 2022. Russia's full-blown invasion of U

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