A former Chechen official is now the sole owner of Danone’s Russian business after the French yogurt maker finalized its exit, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported Monday, citing corporate data.

Danone announced its intention to leave Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin placed its Russian unit under temporary state management

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Lithuanian prosecutors said Monday the Baltic state had arrested a member of the opposition Conservative party this year on charges of spying for Russia.

The EU and NATO member state of 2.8 million people is one of Ukraine's staunchest supporters, and fears it could be in Russia's crosshairs next if Moscow were to win its war against Kyiv.

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“People are afraid to go out to protest. They are afraid to show their faces, afraid to speak out publicly. Both the Russian and the Kadyrov regimes exploit this,” said Chechen-born activist Fatima Suleymanova.

“That’s why it was very important for me to come out to protest, speak out and show my face even though I also have family inside Che

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India's defense minister was present for the commissioning ceremony of his country's latest naval vessel at a Russian shipyard Monday, hailing it as a “significant milestone” in ties with a longstanding defense ally.

Indian defense minister Rajnath Singh was in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad for the commissioning ceremony of his country’s l

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Russia has returned the bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war who died in a plane crash en route to a prisoner swap, Russia’s presidential human rights commissionersaid Monday.

Russia’s defense ministry accused Ukraine of firing missiles at the Il-76 transport aircraft in January, killing 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, three personnel escorting them

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A car bomb has killed the former head of a Russian-controlled prison where dozens of Ukrainian soldiers were killed in an explosion that Moscow and Kyiv blame on each other, pro-Kremlin mediareported Monday, citing anonymous sources.

Sergei Yevsyukov waskilled and his wife was injured in the blast in central Donetsk, in Russian-occupied Ukraine,

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