The Russian Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates to their highest level in two decades has so far failed to slow rising inflation, the regulator acknowledged in a bulletin published Wednesday.

The Central Bank raised its key rate to a record-high 21% in October 2024 as inflation, sanctions pressure and record defense spending for the war

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A Russian jazz musician suffering from a serious autoimmune disease and spinal condition was sentenced to six years in prison for anti-war and anti-Putin Facebook posts, a group of his supporters said Wednesday.

Saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, who is legally disabled, was arrested in March on accusations of calling for financial support for the

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Norwegian intelligence services declared Wednesday that Russia would most likely launch sabotage attacks versus the country at some point this year, potentially targeting energy infrastructure or help sent out to Ukraine.The head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), Beate Gangas, said that while the EU had seen lots of such attacks because the end
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A brand-new set of migration laws entered effect in Russia on Wednesday that will make it much easier for authorities to expel migrants with impunity.The most current legal modifications are focused on further streamlining the treatment of deporting illegal migrants, according to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. Activists caution that they might be utilized to
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Five Russian conscripts were killed in Ukrainian shelling in the southwestern Belgorod region last month, regional media reported Wednesday, citing the father of one of the soldiers.

“They built their own trench and moved in there on Dec. 30,” Sergei Zherebtsov, father of 20-year-old Artyom Zherebtsov, told the Chelyabinsk-based news outlet 74.ru.

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Russia and Ukraine each said Wednesday that 150 of their captured soldiers had been released in the latest prisoner-of-war exchange, one of the few ongoing areas of cooperation between the two countries amid nearly three years of war.

"Some of the guys had been in captivity for more than two years," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a

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