Russian law enforcment authorities detained the editor-in-chief of the Yekaterinburg news outlet Vecherniye Vedomosti on accusations of showing nazi symbols in public, the publication stated Friday.Vecherniye Vedomosti said its chief editor Vladislav Postnikov was being held at a police station and facing administrative charges.He could be
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A woman was killed when a city bus crashed into a bus stop in St. Petersburg, Russian media reported Friday afternoon.

The bus driver apparently lost control while making a turn, ramming into passenger vehicles, another bus and a bus stop, transportation authorities told the state-run news agency TASS. Local news outlet Fontanka identified the

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A Far East court has actually reversed a choice to transfer anti-Putin shaman Alexander Gabyshev from a high-security psychiatric facility to a general hospital, his lawyer stated Friday.Prosecutors had actually appealed a lower court's December judgment to move Gabyshev, 56, to a less limiting medical facility, attorney Alexei Pryanishnikov stated. The Primorsky Regional
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State-run clinics in northwestern Russia’s Vologda region are illegally denying women abortions, a local lawmaker said Thursday.

Alexander Morozov, a member of the regional legislative assembly from the Communist Party, urged the prosecutor’s office to investigate the refusals, sharing a copy of his request on the social media site VKontakte.

“When t

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Russian forces have actually retaken four towns over the past week in the southwestern Kursk area, where Ukrainian soldiers caught big swaths of territory last summer, Russia's Defense Ministry stated Friday.The army said its forces liberated the town of Novaya Sorochina and pushed back 4 Ukrainian counterattacks in the process. The advances, which
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Two Russian divers were found dead, one in the jaws of a shark, after a strong current separated them from their group at a popular Philippine scuba diving site, a coast guard official said Friday.

Four Russians — 57-year-old Eduart Perigudin, his sons Timofy, 18, and Ilya, 29, and another man — were diving near the Batangas resort area on the main

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