Authorities in Far East Russia's Sakhalin area are preparing to pump fuel from a Chinese freight ship that ran aground off its coast over night Sunday.Sakhalin area Governor Valery Limarenko declared a high alert in the Nevelsky district, where the bulk carrier An Yang 2 with 20 team members ended up being stranded 200 meters (650 feet) offshore.The ship
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Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria rejected 60 million euros ($61 million) in conditional aid from the European Union due to pressure from Russia, Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean said Monday.

Moldova began supplying EU-funded gas to Transnistria on Feb. 1 as part of an initial emergency aid package worth 30 million euros ($31

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Russian prison authorities approved the use of brutality and torture against Ukrainian prisoners of war weeks after the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Moscow planned and carried out “what United Nations investigators have described as widespread and systematic torture,” the WSJ reported, citing thr

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Chinese President Xi Jinping accepted an invite to attend Victory Day events in Moscow on May 9, marking the 80th anniversary of completion of World War II, the Kremlin stated Monday. Such contacts and visits are being prepared, and we connect excellent shared importance to the significance of these dates, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov told repo
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Russia's foreign direct investment (FDI) has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, with the total volume having decreased to $235 billion by October 2024, according to data from the Russian Central Bank, Ukrainska Pravda reported Saturday.

Pre-war Russia was attracting nearly $500 billion of FDI a year, which was still a low result compared to

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Authorities in Finland said they are preparing for a potential oil spill in the Gulf of Finland after Russian officials reported a surge aboard an oil tanker in the northwestern Leningrad area. We're closely following the news about the oil tanker damaged in the port of Laukaansuu, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo wrote on social media
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