Azerbaijan said on Monday that Moscow had actually assured to penalize those responsible for the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft that Baku says was contended by Russian air defenses.The AZAL Embraer 190 jet crash-landed in Kazakhstan on Dec. 25, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.The occurrence triggered a number of airline companies to cancel flights to Russia,
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Police authorities in Ukraine stated Monday that a former law enforcement officer was condemned of treason and sentenced to 15 years in jail for sharing the place of air defense units with Russia.Kyiv has introduced thousands of investigations into Ukrainians suspected of teaming up with Russian forces since Moscow launched its full-scale
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Russian rap artist Ligalize reacted to being designated a foreign agent by Russia's Justice Ministry with the release of a brand-new song on Monday.The track, entitled Vsemirnye -- a play on the Russian words for around the world and everybody is serene -- is the first release from an upcoming album by the Dutch-Lithuanian label TMT Music.The tune includes
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A Russian man arrested earlier this year for organizing LGBTQ+ travel tours has died in pre-trial detention, rights groups and Russian state media reported Sunday.

Andrei Kotov, the director of the travel agency Men Travel, was charged last month with taking part and organizing "extremist" activities.

The OVD-Info rights group cited Kotov's lawyer

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Moscow would oppose the implementation of Western peacekeeping forces to Ukraine as part of any settlement to end the almost three-year conflict.French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk earlier this month floated the concept of stationing foreign soldiers to enforce a possible peace
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Authorities in Moscow promised Sunday to retaliate after the channels of several state media outlets were obstructed for EU-based users of the messaging app Telegram.The Telegram channels of RIA Novosti, Rossiya 1, Channel One, NTV, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta stopped being available within the EU previously on Sunday, according to media reports.Neithe
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