The Swedish navy said Tuesday it had recuperated from the Baltic Sea the anchor of an oil tanker suspected of coming from Russia's shadow fleet and destructive 4 undersea telecoms cable televisions and one power cable television on Dec. 25. Sweden sent out a submarine rescue vessel to assist Finland in the examination recently. The HMS Belos has actually found and lifted the
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In 2024, Russia’s ethnic republics witnessed some of the country’s largest protests, suffered from the disproportionate mobilization of its Indigenous inhabitants for the front lines in Ukraine, and experienced the first ripple effects of Moscow’s war.   

In anticipation of a no less eventful 2025, The Moscow Times asked leading activists and

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday expressed his "sincerest condolences" to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a devastating earthquake in Tibet that killed at least 95 people.

"Russia shares the grief of those who have lost relatives and close ones as a result of this natural disaster, and hopes for a speedy recovery," Putin told Xi in a

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Kyiv's army stated on Tuesday it was clinging on to part of Kurakhove, a strategic town in Ukraine's east that Russia said it had actually seized the previous day.Moscow hailed the capture of the crucial logistics hub, stating it would enable Russian forces to take the rest of the eastern Donetsk area at a sped up pace. But the Ukrainian army
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Ukraine has made minor tactical advances since launching its renewed offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, reports said.

Moscow said Sunday that Ukraine had mounted a "counterattack" in the Russian border region that Kyiv has partially controlled since it launched a shock incursion there last August. 

The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said

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Nearly three years after the departure of major Western IT firms due to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia's tech market is on the rise, but the growth is unlikely to be sustainable.

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The Russian IT market saw a significant boost following the mass exodus of Western vendors after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Local

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