Russia's federal government is planning to resume major layoffs of public sector employees next year after they were postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant company newspaper reported Monday.Authorities started state service optimization reforms in 2019, which at the time saw around 10% of federal

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The Kremlin on Monday denied reports that President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke over the phone last week about the war in Ukraine.

The Washington Post reported earlier that Trump, in a call made on Thursday, warned Putin against escalating the conflict and reminded the Kremlin leader of “Washington’s sizeable military

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholzsaid Sunday that he wants to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon” about ending the war in Ukraine.

“Yes, I decided to talk to the president of Russia at the right time. But I'm a responsible politician, I don’t do it alone,” Scholztold the German broadcaster ARD on Sunday.

Scholz spoke with U.S.

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump advised Russian President Vladimir Putin against escalating the war in Ukraine on Thursday in their first phone conversation following Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election, The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing several people familiar with the matter.

During the call, which Trump made from his

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday that it foiled a Ukrainian attempt to divert a military helicopter by recruiting its pilot. Ukrainian military intelligence officers attempted to hire a Russian military pilot to divert this aircraft to an area managed by the Ukrainian armed forces, the FSB stated, adding that the helicopter

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Dozens of refugees who fled from Ukraine's cross-border incursion into Russia's Kursk border region staged a protest in the regional capital of Kursk on Sunday, the independent 7x7 news website reported.

Three months after Ukraine launched its surprise incursion into the Kursk region on Aug. 6, refugees from the region's Sudzhansky district say

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