2 French researchers confessed to performing an attack on the Russian consulate in Marseille using improvised explosive devices, the local newspaper La Provence reported early Wednesday, mentioning unnamed sources.French cops arrested the guys just hours after 3 plastic soda bottles-- 2 of which took off-- were tossed into the consulate's gard
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French automaker Renault would need to reinvest 112.5 billion rubles ($1.29 billion) to regain its former Russian possessions, the head of Russia's top manufacturer, Avtovaz, stated Monday.Renault, which had the biggest direct exposure to the Russian market amongst Western carmakers, suspended operations at its Moscow plant in March 2022 following Russia's i
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New oil slicks have appeared along the coastlines of southern Russia, regional authorities said Tuesday, two months after a major spill in the Black Sea.

Emergency crews discovered fuel oil fragments at 11 of 41 clean-up sites along the southern Krasnodar region’s coast, according to the regional crisis center. Officials in annexed Crimea also repor

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was going to Tehran on Tuesday for talks with senior officials, Iranian state media reported.Lavrov was scheduled to fulfill his Iranian equivalent Abbas Araghchi, state television said.Russia's Foreign Ministry stated their talks would cover Russian-Iranian relations, as well as a number of present
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday dismissed reports of a follow-up meeting between U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia this week, saying no such talks were scheduled.

“There are no meetings in Riyadh with the participation of the Foreign Ministry today,” the ministry was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Russian Foreign Mini

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A Siberian court on Tuesday handed thermophysicist Oleg Kabov a five-year suspended sentence for presumably falsifying research lead to a case extensively slammed by the scientific community.Kabov, 69, was jailed in October 2022 and implicated of defrauding the state of 7 million rubles ($81,000) during a 2014-2016 research study job on an
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