Authorities in Moscow on Friday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build an "iron dome" missile defense system in the United States, saying it risked turning space into an arena of "confrontation."

In an executive order on Monday, Trump called for the creation of an "Iron Dome for America" to counter ballistic and hypersonic missile

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A St. Petersburg woman was sentenced to 20 hours of community service on Friday after staging a protest over alleged inaction by law enforcement to investigate her friend’s disappearance.

Police arrested Lena Patyayeva while protesting on the Akhmat Kadyrov Bridge in southwestern St. Petersburg on Wednesday, citing alleged violations of Covid-19

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The Russian Orthodox Church seeks to increase the number of military chaplains deployed with Russian forces in Ukraine fivefold, aiming to provide spiritual support and combat what it describes as the "brutalization" of soldiers.

The Church is calling for at least 1,500 clergy members to be embedded within military units, up from the

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BALTIC SEA — Through Captain Arunas’ binoculars, visibility is close to zero: "One kilometer, no more." 

The thick fog hanging over the Baltic Sea complicates the patrol for the 50 sailors aboard the Jotvingis. Their mission aboard the Lithuanian Navy command vessel: preventing hybrid threats as part of NATO's Baltic Sentry operation.

On the

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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday permitting the Armenian mutual fund Balchug Capital to acquire the Russian subsidiary of U.S. financial investment bank Goldman Sachs.Goldman Sachs, which had run in Russia since 2009, was the first Wall Street firm to exit the country following Moscow's major intrusion of Ukraine.In 2023, a Moscow
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A Russian man who survived 66 days adrift at sea on an inflatable boat has been charged with negligence over the deaths of his relatives on board, investigators said Friday.

Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was rescued by a fishing vessel in October off the coast of the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, more than two months after he set off on the dinghy with

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