Kazakh police briefly detained a 24-year-old woman reportedly fleeing domestic violence in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, human rights activists said Wednesday.

Elza Soltayeva was taken to a police station in western Kazakhstan after officers demanded she speak with her relatives, according to Marem, an organization that helps women in the North

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A strong natural gas odor spread across the southern Russian city of Astrakhan following a drone strike on a gas processing facility earlier in the week, local authorities and media reported Wednesday.

Debris from a falling drone struck the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant early Monday, sparking a fire and halting operations. By Wednesday morning,

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Russian civil aviation authorities said Wednesday that they have actually not been given access to the foreign objects that harmed an Azerbaijani jet before it crashed in Kazakhstan last month.Kazakhstan's Transportation Ministry on Tuesday published preliminary findings of its investigation into the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243.
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“I am confident that the Special Operation Museum opened today at the school will provide our younger generation with a true example of courage, patriotism and love for their Motherland,” a Belgorod city deputy said as he inaugurated the museum at School No. 34.

Among the museum’s first exhibits include a military banner and the personal belongings

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Russia's Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its forces captured 2 towns in eastern and northeastern Ukraine as the war nears its third anniversary, with both sides seeking to make headway ahead of possible peace talks.Moscow stated its soldiers took the village of Novomlynsk in the northeastern Kharkiv area, where Russian forces have crossed
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The number of brick-and-mortar sex shops in major Russian cities has declined as business shifts online and sanctions drive up supply costs, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday, citing an analysis by Yandex Maps.

Russia had 1,990 adult stores in January, a 7.8% decrease from the same month last year.

At least 12 of the country’s 16 c

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