Bashar al-Assad personally opted to step down as president of Syria, the Kremlinsaid Tuesday, days after he fled an Islamist-led offensive and was said to arrive in Russia.

“The process of ceasing to serve as head of state was Assad’s personal decision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“We’ll leave the rest without comment,” Peskov ad

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At least 543 Russian soldiers and mercenaries werekilled during Russia’s almost decade-long military intervention in Syria’s civil war, according to a tally by BBC Russia.

The now-restructured Wagner mercenary group reportedly accounted for 346 of the verified Russian military deaths in Syria. Their names appeared in various publicly available

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An energy crisis has gripped the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian area of Abkhazia following opposition protests that helped bury a questionable Russian investment deal.Local authorities have started imposing rolling blackouts, suspended schools and cut off web access to save power.Abkhazia's authorities announced last week that Russia h
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Russian police have arrested a German-Russian citizen for allegedly preparing to sabotage a rail line on orders from Kyiv, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday, according to Russian media.

Authorities accused the man, born in 2003, of having “prepared to sabotage a section of railway line in the city of Nizhny Novgorod with an e

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A 39-year-old man in Siberia has been jailed for three years for defacing posters that called on people to enlist in the Russian army, regional authorities said Tuesday.

The man, from Zheleznogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk region, was accused of having “deliberately and intentionally” defaced 13 recruitment posters last June.

A court found him guilty of

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Seven years ago, President Vladimir Putin traveled to Syria to meet with his ally, then-Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, at Russia's Khmeimim air base in Latakia.

In a triumphant speech, Putin declared victory over Assad's enemies once and for all.

“If the terrorists raise their heads again,” he said of the Syrian opposition and the Islamic State ter

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