Protesters broke onto the facilities of Abkhazia's parliament building on Friday, opposing an investment agreement with Russia they declare threatens the breakaway region's financial and security interests.Scores of demonstrators collected in Sukhumi as lawmakers gathered to think about ratifying the questionable Russian-Abkhazian financial investment agreement,
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Russia's Foreign Minister on Fridaycalled on Palestinian militants to release two Russian-Israeli captives after one of them appeared in a video earlier this week.Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group allied with Hamas, launched a video on Wednesday of Alexander Trufanov, who was by force taken to Gaza in the middle of the Hamas-led attack on Israel
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High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, Moscow officials close to the matter have said.

Moscow authorities announced Wednesday that the museum, which chronicles one of the darkest chapters of the Soviet Union’s repressions, would temporarily close

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Russia's political and organization elites, in addition to their loved ones, have for years had the ability to take a trip abroad utilizing diplomatic passports, the investigative news outlet The Insiderreported Thursday, citing files it obtained.Russian law does not clearly permit non-diplomats to acquire diplomatic passports, but they may still beissued to
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A Russian military court sentenced on Thursday a male to 24 years in prison for the tried arson of a military recruitment workplace, state media reported.Russia has actually seen a spate of arson attacks on draft offices since it sent out troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Authorities have prosecuted those captured attempting to toss Molotov mixed drinks at
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A Russian military court has sentenced a theater director to eight years in prison for anti-war comments that include calls to kill President Vladimir Putin, the independent news website Mediazonareported Thursday.

Anastasia Berezhinskaya, 43, was accused of “discrediting” and spreading “false information” about the Russian military, as well as “jus

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