Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a two-day check out targeted at enhancing ties with Central Asian countries in the middle of tensions over the war in Ukraine.While Kazakhstan belongs to the Moscow-led CSTO security alliance, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has revealed unease about the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of

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Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico announced Wednesday that he will take a trip to Moscow on May 9 to go to the 80th anniversary commemorations of the Soviet victory in World War II.Fico, one of the couple of European leaders who has actually preserved close contact with the Kremlin given that the major invasion of Ukraine, revealed on Facebook that he had

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Polish police authorities jailed a German male on claims of exporting dual-use innovation to Russia that was used for arms production, Poland's security service stated Wednesday.The man was apprehended in the Lubusz province, which borders Germany in western Poland, and charged with brokering and exporting dual-use items to Russian t

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Russian military detectives said Wednesday that they opened a terrorism probe following a Ukrainian missile strike that was stated to have actually eliminated two civilians in the Kursk region over the weekend.The Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of targeting military websites in the southwestern Kursk area with U.S.-supplied ATACMS rockets on

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The capital city of Far East Russia's Amur area was blanketed under heavy snow on Wednesday, in what authorities are calling the blizzard of the century. Authorities in Blagoveshchensk declared a state of emergency after an overall of 36 millimeters of precipitation -- or approximately 36cm (14 inches) of snow on the ground-- had fallen in the city given that

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Authorities in Moscow on Wednesday accused Germany of shutting down the Berlin bureau of Russia’s state broadcaster Channel One over national security concerns, though German officials later denied the allegations.

Channel One correspondent Ivan Blagoi said he and cameraman Dmitry Volkov were ordered to leave Germany by mid-December.

“The decision w

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