Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company.

According to RBC’s sources, Google began a

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Russia's Defense Ministry stated Tuesday that its forces recorded the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove as part of a wider push to take the neighboring logistics hub of Pokrovsk.The capture of the frontline town of Selydove, located around 18 kilometers (10 miles) southeast of Pokrovsk, is the most recent battlefield gain for Russia, which has slowly
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A Moscow court sentenced an IT expert to more than 13 years in jail for attempting to pass state tricks to the CIA, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday.Firuz Dadoboyev was found guilty of treason for the benefit of the United States. He was likewise fined 300,000 rubles ($3,000). Russia's FSB declared Dadoboyev illegally
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The republic of Chechnya's supreme mufti on Tuesday decried bans on hijabs and other religious clothes in schools as unconstitutional, arguing that the limitations break a person's right to freedom of conscience and religion.Supreme Mufti Salah Mezhiev provided his criticism a week after education authorities in central Russia's Vladimir area o
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Estonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires amid an ongoing border dispute over a shared river, media in the Baltic country reported Tuesday.

In May, Estonian border guards accused their Russian counterparts of removing two dozen navigation buoys from the Narva River, which flows north into the Baltic Sea from Lake Peipsi, or

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North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui arrived in Russia Tuesday for a main check out after South Korea and the United States declared Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to train in Russia.Choe flew to the city of Vladivostok in Russia's Far East, the state-run TASS news firm reported, mentioning a diplomatic source. According to the source,
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