Russian athletes will be able to qualify for the ice skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics as neutrals, the sport's governing body said Friday.

The International Skating Union (ISU) announced "a pathway to allow a limited number of individual neutral athletes (AIN) to participate under strict conditions in designated Olympic qualifying

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Lithuania's authorities stated Friday that cops private investigators had actually found no evidence of unlawful interference in the deadly crash of a DHL freight airplane last month, which had set off suspicions of foul play.The crash near Vilnius Airport, which eliminated one team member of the airplane coming from the German city of Leipzig, instantly raised
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Russian state prosecutors requested a nearly eight-year prison sentence for singer Eduard Sharlot on charges of justifying Nazism and insulting religious feelings, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.

Sharlot was arrested last year after returning to Russia from Armenia, where he had posted videos of himself burning his passport and nailing

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A male in southern Russia's Rostov area was found dead in a pre-trial detention center, the independent news outlet Mediazona reported Friday, mentioning jail authorities.Roman Shvedov, 39, a self-described anarchist, was sentenced to 16 years in prison earlier today for setting fire to a district administration structure in the Rostov region.A man in southern Russias Rostov region was discovered deadin a pre-trial detention center, the independent news outlet Mediazona reported Friday, mentioning prison authorities.Roman Shvedov, 39, a self-described anarchist, was sentenced to 16 years in jail previously this week for setting fire to a district administration structure in the Rostov area. His body was discovered on Wednesday.According to the Telegram news channel Shot, Shvedov committedsuicide. The Moscow Times could not individually confirm that report.After his arrest in 2022, Russias Federal Security Service(FSB )accused Shvedov of trying to destabilize the activities of the authorities, to affect their decisionmaking, as well as to oppose the war in Ukraine and partial mobilization.Investigators stated he broke a window on the very first floor of an administrative building and tossed a container of fuel inside before setting it on fire. As an outcome, the workplace of the deputy head of the Zimovnikovsky district and the head of among the departments captured fire.Authorities estimated the fire damage at 941,000 rubles($8,700). In his correspondence with the human rights organization Zona Solidarnosti, Shvedov refused legal help. He said that he would rot in prison which it was difficult to help him, asking rather to assist other political prisoners.
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Five people were killed in a Ukrainian rocket attack on a town in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region on Friday afternoon, Russian regional authorities said.

“Ukrainian nationalists deliberately chose peaceful sites and public facilities as their targets,” acting Kursk region Governor Alexander Khinshtein, who was meeting with federal lawmakers in Mo

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Ukraine said Friday it had gotten the bodies of 503 killed Ukrainian servicemembers from Russia, marking the most recent return of remains in between the two warring countries.The exchange of prisoners and bodies of eliminated military workers stays one of the few locations of cooperation in between Moscow and Kyiv given that Russia attacked in 2022. The bodies of
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