A Turkish court has sentenced a Russian teenager to 15 years in prison for abandoning her newborn child in an airport bathroom, Russian state media reported Monday.

Yekaterina Burnashkina, 18, and her 47-year-old mother, Yelena, were arrested at Antalya Airport on Oct. 13, 2024, after cleaning staff discovered the newborn girl in the toilet bowl of

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Russia has struck a handle Ukraine and the Red Cross to evacuate citizens from the embattled Kursk region, parts of which have been taken by Ukraine, Russia's rights commissioner said Monday.Kyiv launched a surprise cross-border assault on the Russian region more than six months back, recording dozens of villages and trapping lots of Russian
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Azerbaijan has shut down the representative office of Russia's state-run media group in the country, officials said Monday, the latest instance of a clampdown on foreign media.

Last week, the oil-rich Caspian nation's authorities ordered the BBC to close its office, in what the British broadcaster denounced as a "move against press freedom."

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The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons unit was hospitalized with a gunshot wound months before he was assassinated late last year, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Monday, citing a database of military medical records obtained from a Russian military defector.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was admitted to Moscow’s Main

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After collapsing to 100 to the dollar last summer, the Russian ruble has recovered a lot of ground and has now settled at a relatively strong level of 90 to the dollar.

Further appreciation or sustained stability will require a significant reduction in geopolitical tensions and the lifting of Western sanctions on Russian oil exports, Renaissance

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A Russian judge on Monday upheld a three-year prison sentence for French national Laurent Vinatier, one of several Westerners jailed by Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Vinatier, a 48-year-old researcher working for a Swiss conflict mediation NGO, was arrested in Moscow in June and charged with gathering information on Russia's

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