For a place where leaders are usually dislodged of office, elections in Abkhazia should be fairly routine.But for lots of citizens in the self-proclaimed independent state on the Black Sea-- extensively acknowledged as a Georgian breakaway region-- something feels various about this weekend's presidential election.It could be due to the fact that this is
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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance vowed Friday that Washington looked for to secure a lasting peace as he held a first conference with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss Donald Trump's push for a deal with Moscow.The talks in Munich were seen as a key moment for Kyiv as it attempts to keep Washington on its side after Trump stunned allies by
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The widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny warned Friday that there was "no point trying to negotiate" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid talks on ending the Ukraine war.

"Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Yulia Navalnaya told the Munich Security Conference two days before the first anniversary of

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The international chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it had found the banned riot control agent CS in nine samples handed to it by Ukraine from the front line in its war against Russia.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it had identified the toxic agent in samples from four grenade shells, three soil samples

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Russian customs officers have arrested a U.S. citizen for "drug smuggling" after allegedly finding gummy candy laced with cannabis derivatives in his luggage, Russian news agencies reported Friday.

The 28-year-old man, whom the agencies did not identify, was detained at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport after arriving from Istanbul.

"While passing customs,

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Russian pro-war bloggers reacted to the news that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had agreed to start negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine — potentially without considering Kyiv’s key peace goals — with a mixture of praise and caution.

These bloggers, often referred to as Z-bloggers or Z-correspondents, are influential voices in

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