A notorious Russian prison complex that once housed jailed revolutionaries, toppled ministers and Soviet dissidents will be turned into a hotel, restaurants, museum and art gallery after being sold at auction on Friday, the site's new owner said.

Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky and writer Joseph Brodsky are among the roll call of famous

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Swedish authorities said Friday that they were investigating suspected damage to an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea, following a series of incidents that some observers believe are acts of sabotage linked to Russia.

Finnish operator Cinia reported "some disturbance" on its C-Lion 1 communications cable, which connects Finland and Germany.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East confirmed in a video that he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during a recent trip to Moscow, where he secured the release of an American prisoner.

“I spent a lot of time with President Putin, talking, developing a friendship, a relationship with him,” Steve Witkoff said in a video from

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Members of a territorial defense unit in Russia’s southwestern Belgorod region accused law enforcement authorities of arbitrary arrests and searches, the regional news outlet 7x7 reported Friday.

In a video address to Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov published on Thursday, uniformed members of the Opolcheniye 31 unit voiced concerns

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Russia's military stated Friday that it captured two villages in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, pushing closer to the surrounding Dnipropetrovsk region.Moscow has actually made small however steady territorial gains in eastern Ukraine since last summer, with current advances coming as U.S. President Donald Trump opens direct talks with Moscow.Russia's Defense
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Friday marks the 25th annual International Mother Language Day, a holiday established by UNESCO to highlight the role of languages in promoting addition. Russia has 155 living and 15 extinct languages belonging to the nation as categorized by the Linguistics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. While Russian is called as the sole
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