Russian banished media and activists held a telethon on Wednesday in support of the growing number of political detainees inside Russia, raising tens of thousands of euros for those currently held behind bars.Moscow has actually waged a sweeping crackdown versus domestic dissent since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Leading rights group

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Russian peacekeepers on Wednesday finished their withdrawal from the Nagorno-Karabakh area, which Baku regained in 2015 from Armenian separatists, authorities in Baku said.Azerbaijan and Armenia had battled two wars -- first from 1988 to 1994 and after that again in 2020 -- for control of the then-breakaway enclave. The process of the complete withdrawal

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Russia’s Supreme Court last week ruled to ban the so-called “Anti-Russian Separatist Movement” and “its structural divisions” as an extremist organization. 

Though no organization with this name formally exists in Russia or elsewhere, the country’s Justice Ministry defined the group as an “international public movement to destroy the multinational u

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German energy giant Uniper stated Wednesday a tribunal had actually granted it over 13 billion euros ($14 billion) in damages from Russian state energy business Gazprom for its failure to deliver gas.The ruling offered Uniper the right to end the agreements and awarded it an amount of more than 13 billion euros in damages for the gas volumes not supplied,

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Moscow has called for the immediate release of a Russian woman apprehended in Denmark on suspicion of espionage, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Wednesday, implicating Copenhagen of persecution. Danish authorities revealed Tuesday that a Russian citizen had been detained on suspicion of enabling a foreign intelligence

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday hailed his country's ties with Russia, stating the two countries were invincible comrades-in-arms in the middle of reports President Vladimir Putin will check out Pyongyang this summer.Kim made an unusual abroad trip to meet the Kremlin leader in Russia's far east in 2015, with Seoul and Washington subsequently implicating

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