Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Thursday that France tried to engage with Moscow in talks about the Ukraine war without the participation of Kyiv.

"On several occasions, our French colleagues have appealed through confidential channels: 'Let us help, let's have a dialogue on the Ukrainian question... Without Ukraine," Lavrov said at

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Finnish law enforcement authorities stated Thursday that they are examining an oil tanker that apparently sailed from a Russian port to sabotage a power cable television connecting the Nordic country with neighboring Estonia.The Estlink 2 submarine cable television, which carries electricity from Finland to Estonia, was detached from the grid on Wednesday, just over a
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In early 2024, the republic of Bashkortostan ended up being the center of a few of the largest protests seen in Russia since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Several thousand people gathered outside a court house in the small town of Baymak to protest the jail time of Fayil Alsynov, a popular Indigenous Bashkir rights activist.In early 2024
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Authorities in Russia declared a federal-level emergency on Thursday in response to the oil spill along the Black Sea coast, which local and regional emergency services, aided by thousands of volunteers, have struggled to clean up over the past week.

“Yesterday, together with all my colleagues, we discussed the situation, and by the decision of the

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A Russian surface-to-air missile was responsible for the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432, which killed 38 travelers, Azerbaijani media reported Thursday.Unnamed Azerbaijani officials pointed out by the Baku-based news agency AnewZ stated preliminary findings recommend the rocket was fired from a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system as the plane
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