Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday demanded that Russia admit it fired at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet before it crashed last week, accusing Moscow of initially trying to cover up the cause of the deadly accident.

Aliyev made the accusation during an interview with state media four days after the AZAL Embraer 190 plane crashed in

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Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday that Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane attempted to land in Grozny before crashing, breaking the Kremlin's silence as speculation installed Russia may have accidentally shot down the plane.The Russian leader called his Azerbaijani equivalent Ilham Aliyev, excusing the occurrence
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Russia warned on Saturday of severe ecological damage from a substantial oil spill in the Black Sea caused when 2 tankers clashed in a storm near Crimea, which declared a state of emergency.One tanker sank and another ran aground on December 15 in the Kerch Strait between Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula.Thousands of volunteers have been
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Reflecting on 2024 in his annual end-of-year press conference, President Vladimir Putin described the year as a "landmark" in achieving the "goals" of Russia’s war against Ukraine. 

And at a Defense Ministry session this month, Putin said Russian forces had captured 189 settlements at the front and that the Armed Forces had grown to 1.5 million

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Germany said on Saturday the suspected sabotage of an undersea power cable television connecting Finland and Estonia this week was a wake-up call that required brand-new EU sanctions against Russia's shadow fleet. The Estlink 2 cable television that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was detached from the grid on Wednesday, simply over a month after two
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A court in central Russia's Samara region sentenced vocalist Eduard Sharlot to 5 and a half years in prison for restoring nazism and insulting religious sensations, state media reported Friday. The last sentence is 5 years and 6 months, to be served in a chastening colony, the judge presiding over the vocalist's case was priced quote as stating by T
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