The Kremlin has actually recommended Russian state-run media outlets to avoid extreme praise of U.S. President Donald Trump and instead highlight President Vladimir Putin's diplomatic skills, the independent Vyorstka news outlet reported.According to Vyorstka, state media heads have been advised to preserve a careful and well balanced tone amidst the unexpected thaw in
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Russian and U.S. diplomats held talks Thursday in Istanbul on restoring regular operations at their embassies, as well as the possible restoration of direct flights between the two countries, officials from both sides said.

The discussions, which lasted over six hours, were held at the U.S. Consul General’s residence and came days after U.S. S

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Russian Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu got here in Beijing on Friday for top-level conferences with Chinese leadership, Russian news companies reported. During the one-day visit, [Shoigu] is set up to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the state-run TASS news company said.Shoigu's see comes days after Xi
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Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, best known for his Cold War-era defeat to American Bobby Fischer, has died at 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced late Thursday.

"The tenth world champion Boris Spassky has died at 88," the federation said in a statement, calling his passing a "great loss for the country." It did not specify the date

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday it thwarted a Ukrainian-ordered plot to assassinate Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov, a senior Russian Orthodox Church bishop with close ties to President Vladimir Putin.

Shevkunov, often described in media reports as "Putin's confessor," has known the Russian leader personally since the 1990s and

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The Kremlin on Thursday ruled out relinquishing control of Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed, setting a major red line as Russian and U.S. officials met in Istanbul for talks aimed at normalizing relations.

"The territories that have become subjects of the Russian Federation, which are inscribed in our country's constitution, are an

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