A Russian missile strike killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens more, including four children, in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Monday afternoon, local authorities said.

The dead include seven police officers, two local residents, and one medic, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration. Children

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At 38, blogger and activist Zalina Marshenkulova has secured her spot among the most significant figures of Russia’s women’s rights movement — an “icon of Russian liberal feminism,” as Russian media have called her, a term that she now uses ironically.

Since 2017, Marshenkulova has run the popular Telegram blog Female Power — which now has over 1

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A Russian court ordered Till Lindemann, the frontman of German metal band Rammstein, to pay 638,800 euros ($670,000) over a canceled show in northwestern Russia's Tver area, the state-run TASS news agency reported Monday.Tver-based company Prime Marketing, which had actually contracted Rammstein to carry out in the local capital, submitted a claim

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Retail alcohol sales in Russia hit a record 184.2 million decaliters between January and October 2024, the RBC organization news outlet reported Monday, citing data from market regulators.This marks the highest volume tape-recorded given that 2017, when regulators started tracking the information. Sales during this duration were 21% higher than in between January and October

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The United States has licensed Kyiv to use U.S.-donated long-range rockets to strike targets inside Russia nearly 1,000 days into the Kremlin's full-blown intrusion of Ukraine.Washington's change of tone is most likely to prompt Kyiv's other allies to ease restrictions on making use of their weapons. American Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) are pa

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Monday that Paris remains open to allowing Ukraine to use French long-range missiles to target military sites inside Russia, following reports that the United States has permitted Kyiv to use American-supplied missiles for the same purpose.

Washington's policy shift — long requested by Ukraine — was rep

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