Residents of Yakutsk, the capital of Russia’s Far East republic of Sakha (Yakutia), staged a rare protest on Sunday against the local government’s plans to scrap mayoral elections. 

Yakutsk, the coldest major city on earth, is one of only four regional capitals of Russia where the local head is still elected by popular vote.    

“If they scrap d

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Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) announced Monday the termination of the CEOs of its subsidiaries Yakovlev and Tupolev, amid obstacles in increase domestic airplane production under Western sanctions. Andrei Boginsky, CEO of Yakovlev, and Konstantin Timofeev, Managing Director of Tupolev, are leaving their posts, UAC stated in a sta
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Ukrainian drone strikes in main Russia's Kaluga area stimulated a fire at a commercial website, regional authorities stated early Monday, with Ukrainian sources declaring the targets consisted of a defense plant and an oil depot.Kaluga Governor Vladislav Shapsha verified a fire broke out at an industrial enterprise following the strike however did not ide
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's leading security consultant contacted Sunday for an end to the escalation of the war in between Ukraine and Russia, and for both parties to come to the negotiating table. We need to bring this to an accountable end. We require to bring back deterrence, bring back peace, and get ahead of this escalation ladder, rather than
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More than 90 passengers and crew were left from a Russian aircraft Sunday after one of its engines ignited while landing at an airport in southern Turkey, the Anadolou state news agency reported.The Azimuth Airlines traveler aircraft was landing at Antalya airport on Turkey's Mediterranean coast when a fire broke out in its left engine, an
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said throughout a phone conversation with his Russian equivalent Vladimir Putin that he wants to broaden trade in between Ankara and Moscow. President Erdogan declared that he intended to increase the cooperation between Turkey and Russia in a number of areas, especially expanding the volume of trade, the Turkish
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