Finnish police authorities enforced a travel restriction on seven team members of the oil tanker Eagle S as part of an ongoing investigation into the severing of an undersea power cable television in the Gulf of Finland last month, the Nordic nation's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) stated late Tuesday.The tanker, flying the Cook Islands flag, is
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Citizens of the breakaway Moldovan area of Transnistria were left without centralized heating and warm water on Wednesday after Russian gas deliveries through Ukraine were stopped, the regional energy business Tirasteploenergo said.Heating and hot water services were suspended at 7:00 a.m. regional time due to the short-term cessation of gas products to the
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Russia's military introduced an air attack on the center of Kyiv in the very first hours of 2025, eliminating at least two individuals, Ukrainian authorities stated early Wednesday.A total of 111 Russian drones were fired at Ukraine overnight, with 109 either shot down or disabled by air defense systems, Ukraine's air force said.Ukraine's state emergency services
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The decades-long transit of Russian natural gas to Europe via Ukraine ended on Wednesday, officials in Moscow and Kyiv confirmed, as the key energy arrangement fell victim to the war between the two neighbors.

Russian gas had flowed through Ukrainian pipelines since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, generating revenue for Moscow and transit

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In spite of sweeping Western sanctions and the exodus of global brand names after Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow's affluent consumers continue to enjoy access to a wide variety of luxury Western goods.In the Russian capital's elite shopping districts, high-end outlet store and high end local outlets are dynamic with s
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President Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia has endured another turbulent year marked by humiliating Ukrainian incursion, the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, skyrocketing food prices, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s death in prison and a terrorist attack in Moscow that killed nearly 150 people.

Twenty-five years since assuming power after Boris

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