Russia’s Orthodox Church plans to give pregnant women in the northwestern Tver region letters urging them to give birth instead of having an abortion.

The Tver diocese announced earlier this week that a letter penned by Metropolitan Ambrose of Tver and Kashinsk will be sent out to regional prenatal centers at a time when women “face the most d

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3 workers were eliminated after part of a cash cow collapsed in Far East Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, the head of the regional Emergency Situations Ministry stated Thursday. The men were operating at the Kumroch mine, located in Kamchatka's Ust-Kamchatsky District, when among the shafts collapsed. The site is run by the Bystrinskaya Mining
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Britain on Thursday announced its largest sanctions to date against Russia's "shadow fleet" of tankers used to sidestep a Western embargo on oil exports after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The government's latest crackdown bars 18 ships from U.K. ports and British maritime services, bringing the total number of sanctioned vessels to 43.

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Foreign companies looking for to leave Russia will be forced to pay a heftier exit tax and voluntary contribution to the state treasury, Finance Minister Anton Siluanovsaid Thursday, verifying earlier reporting of the scheduled boost. The discount rate for foreigners will increase from 50% to 60%, Siluanov, who heads a federal government financial investment com
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Serbian authorities bought a Russian expat involved in anti-Kremlin activist work to leave the country by the end of this week over threats he presumably positions to nationwide security, local media reported Wednesday. According to Serbian broadcaster N1, a CNN affiliate, Russian person Anton Bobryshev has actually lived in the Balkans nation for 8 years
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Russia will deport more than 2,000 undocumented migrants following a recent series of police raids, the Moscow branch of Russia’s Interior Ministryannounced Thursday.

The weeklong raids in the Russian capital, dubbed “Operation Nelegal 2024,” uncovered more than 13,000 violations of immigration law, according to the ministry’s statement.

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