A Moscow court sentenced Oscar-nominated film producer Alexander Rodnyansky to eight-and-a-half years jail in absentia on Monday for spreading "fake" information about the Russian army.

Rodnyansky, 63, was born in Kyiv but spent most of his career in Russia, producing dozens of TV series and movies there including Oscar-nominated crime drama

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A group of Ukraine war veterans signed up with protesters in Western Siberia's Tyumen area over the weekend, implicating regional officials of unlawfully taking their homes amid a roadway building and construction dispute.Around 50 protesters, including 5 males worn military uniforms, gathered in the city of Tyumen on Saturday to object what they declare to be a
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CHISINAU, Moldova-- Moldovans got up to the news that the nation's referendum on joining the European Union was likely to go by a razor-thin margin after a significant day of ballot in Sunday's presidential election that is set to determine whether the nation pursues Western integration or pivots back toward Russia's orbit.Pre-election surveys had
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The locked up mother of a prominent critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has actually been sent to the hospital to undergo medical treatment after her lawyer petitioned the authorities to enable her to get care due to her declining health.Zarema Musaeva, the mother of activist Abubakar Yangulbaev and the partner of a retired federal judge, is serving a
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A group of coal miners in Siberia's Kemerovo region stated Monday that they were releasing a cravings strike after their employer stopped working to pay them millions of rubles in wages.At least 12 workerssigned a petition announcing the cravings strike that is anticipated to last till they get 46 million rubles ($478,000) in unsettled salaries, according to a regional
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When the yearly BRICS financial bloc summit opens Tuesday in Kazan, the capital of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, Moscow will be taking out all the stops to project the alliance as a rapidly broadening geopolitical counterweight to the West. President Vladimir Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov has already hailed the top as the largest foreign policy e
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