Belarus's top jailed opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky was freed alongside over a dozen other political prisoners on Saturday in a surprise release hailed as a "symbol of hope".

His wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who took the mantle of the opposition after his jailing, said the United States helped broker the deal and thanked U.S. President Donald

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Kyiv received the bodies of 20 Russian soldiers instead of Ukrainian ones during exchanges of war dead with Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks made public Saturday.

He accused Russia of "not checking" who they were sending, and suggested Moscow might be doing it on purpose to conflate the number of Ukrainian bodies they had.

The

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President Vladimir Putin said Friday he did not rule out his forces taking control of Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy as part of efforts to create a buffer zone along the border. We have no objective to take Sumy, however in principle I do not rule it out ... They posture a consistent threat to us, continuously shelling the border locations, Putin informed
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President Vladimir Putin on Friday touted the rising economic influence of the BRICS group of countries and Russia’s pivot toward non-Western markets, using the plenary session of the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) to promote what he described as a “restructuring” of Russia’s economy.

“BRICS makes up 40% of the global

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The Kremlin is struggling to respond to the Israel-Iran conflict after it failed to anticipate the outbreak of hostilities, leaving it powerless to support a key ally, four sources in Russia’s foreign policy establishment told The Moscow Times.

Though it maintains ties with both countries, the Kremlin, bogged down in its own war in Ukraine, had not

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Russia and Ukraine exchanged caught soldiers on Friday, authorities said, marking the current detainee swap following peace talks in Istanbul previously this month. A group of Russian servicemen was returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv program. In exchange, a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war was turned over, Russia's Defense M
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