Russia’s top search engine Yandex displayed more than 1 billion military recruitment ads in 2024, the investigative news outlet Vyorstka reported Thursday.

The record 1.1 billion display ads for Russian army contracts far exceeded the 208.4 million seen in 2023, the outlet said, citing Yandex’s latest social ads transparency report.

Yandex serves

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that it was "not very pleasant" that U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Russia's Vladimir Putin before calling him.

Zelensky said Trump had told him he had wanted to speak with both leaders simultaneously, though he did not elaborate on why that did not happen. He said he believed that

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Russian state district attorneys are seeking a six-year jail sentence for Instagram blog writer Yelena Blinovskaya on tax scams charges, the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported Thursday.Blinovskaya was arrested at the Russian-Belarusian border in April 2023 on suspicion of underreporting 918 million rubles ($10.1 million) in incomes from online services
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced that they had agreed to hold peace talks on the war in Ukraine following a surprise phone call on Wednesday, stunning both Kyiv and Europe and prompting jubilation in Moscow.

Yet experts and political figures largely appeared skeptical about the chances that talks between the two

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Russian state media, officials and prominent bloggers are celebrating the news that U.S. President Donald Trump would negotiate with President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine without pushing for Kyiv’s key peace demands to be met. 

In a discussion on state broadcaster Rossia 1, Russian political scientist Sergei Luzyanin praised what he

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BRUSSELS-- The European Union's top diplomat knocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for sidelining Ukraine and engaging with Russia's Vladimir Putin without consulting Kyiv or Europe.U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth informed allies in Brussels on Wednesday that Ukraine's goals to sign up with NATO and recover its 1991 borders as part
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