Russia’s agricultural safety watchdogbanned the import of tomatoes, melons, wheat and other food products from neighboring Kazakhstan amid ongoing trade disputes between the two countries.

“The decision was made because Kazakhstan’s competent authorities failed to take measures to ensure the phytosanitary safety of [products sent to] Russian ter

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Authorities in southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region on Fridaydenied reports of Ukrainian troops launching an incursion into a village on the border with Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.

Open-source intelligence bloggersspeculated earlier this week that Ukraine may have opened a “new axis” in the Belgorod region village of Zhuravlevka to cut off one of the

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A freight ship capsized off the coast of Far East Russia's Sakhalin island, eliminating at least 2 crewmen, the state-run Interfax news agency reported Friday, mentioning emergency services.Earlier, Sakhalin region Governor Valery Limarenko stated the Grigory Lotsov, which was packed with crushed stone and sand, sank off the coast of Sakhalin's Korsakovsky D
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Russian law enforcement authorities placed the better half of opposition figure Leonid Gozman underhouse arrest on claims of trafficking cultural goods from Russia to Italy, media reported Thursday.The independent paper Novaya Gazeta, citing a court indictment, reported that the cultural items listed by authorities include cooking area and house
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Russia is preparing to deploy 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the fight against Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Thursday, mentioning intelligence information.Zelensky has actually formerly accused North Korea of sending out soldiers to Russia's army however this was the first time he gave an exact figure.An undefined variety of North Korean soldiers
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When Ukrainian soldier Ihor Shyshko described his two years of detention in Russia along with 72-year-old U.S. resident Stephen Hubbard, three words came to mind: torture, humiliation and hunger.After being held incommunicado for 2 and a half years, Hubbard unexpectedly appeared in a Moscow court last month where he was sentenced in a closed trial to
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