Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a controversial bill outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” as authorities ramp up efforts to both increase birth rates and promote “traditional values” among families.

Deputies in Russia’s lower-house State Duma voted unanimously in favor of the bill, which prohibits the public dissemination of materials,

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A local official in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region was sacked Tuesday after residents who were displaced by Ukraine’s cross-border incursion came out over the weekend to protest a lack of compensation for lost housing.

“The head of Sudzhansky district will be relieved of his post today,” Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnovtold residents who

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Russian Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that their two countries' most urgent task should be countering "containment" by the United States.

Speaking to Wang in Beijing, Shoigu stressed the need for China and Russia to "counter the 'dual containment' policy directed against Russia and China by

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Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday that the death toll from a Russian strike on the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky rose to four people, identifying the dead as a mother and her three children, including a newborn.

The Monday strike on Kryvyi Rih ripped into the upper stories of a Soviet-era residential building in the industrial town,

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Russia’s state-backed oil giant Rosneft dismissed reports Tuesday of a planned merger with two other major companies to create a single mega oil producer, calling the claims “detached from reality” and lacking in “sound business logic.”

The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources close to the discussions, reported over the weekend that

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)said Tuesday that it foiled a Ukrainian plot to commit an arson attack on a railway in annexed Crimea.

An unnamed 29-year-old man was detained near the Balaklava power station in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol before he was able to set fire to railway equipment, the FSB said in a statement.

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