Russia’s State Duma passed a bill Wednesday overhauling the country’s constitutionally mandated two-tier system of local self-government, further consolidating the Kremlin’s control six years after President Vladimir Putin proposed the reforms.

The bill, which has been amended over 1,000 times since its introduction in 2021, allows regional

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The United States stopped intelligence sharing with Ukraine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday, a move that could weaken the Ukrainian military's ability to target Russian forces on the battlefield.Ratcliffe validated the time out following earlier media reports, stating that U.S. President Donald Trump had a real question about whether
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A Russian court sentenced a British man to 19 years in prison on charges of terrorism and acting as a mercenary while fighting for Ukraine, authorities in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region said Wednesday.

James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, was detained in November while fighting with Ukrainian forces in Kursk. British authorities at the time pledged

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A water pipe burst and freezing temperatures have developed a towering ice formation in southern Russia, drawing crowds of local tourists.Videos shared by Telegram channels in the Rostov area show jets of water and steam gushing from the enormous ice structure, with visitors posing for images in front of it.Authorities in the Rostov region's A
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Russian authorities have finished issuing passports to Ukrainian nationals living in territories seized by the Russian military, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, a process that Ukraine has condemned as an illegal attempt to erase the region's Ukrainian identity.

Since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russian authorities

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The Kremlin said Wednesday that it welcomes the prospect of U.S.-mediated peace talks with Ukraine but claimed that legal obstacles introduced by Kyiv still prevent negotiations from taking place.

U.S. President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday that he received a letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressing a willingness to

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