At least two cities in Russia canceled pro-war singer Shaman’s concerts due to low ticket sales for his “Victory” tour, the independent news outlet Agentstvo reported Friday.

Shaman kicked off his 100-city tour on Red Square last month, with plans to perform in Ukrainian cities occupied since Russia’s invasion. The singer said he aims to program h

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A U.S. court ruled that a 27-year-old protester from Russia's republic of Bashkortostan can stay in the United States without the threat of deportation, media reported on Friday.Zahir Mukhamedyarov got away Russia in March, entering the U.S. unlawfully from Mexico to avoid arrest following large-scale protests in January over the imprisonment of promine

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Upgraded with arrest confirmation.A Russian man accused of helping arrange attacks on allies of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was jailed in Poland, the Polish Prosecutor's Office verified Friday.Last week, Navalny's team released an investigation claiming that Leonid Nevzlin, a banished billionaire and partner of Kremlin critic

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will not meet his U.S. equivalent Antony Blinken despite both attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York this weekend, Moscow said Friday.Tensions in between Russia and the United States have actually worsened in the two and a half years because Moscow released its full-blown invasion of Ukraine, and

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A court in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg sentenced a man to eight years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a Gabonese student last year, local media reported Monday.

Earlier this month, state prosecutors had requested an 11-year sentence for Daniil Fomin, who was charged with murdering François Ndjelassili in August 2023.

Ndjelassili had

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Four Russian soldiers have been arrested and charged with torturing and murdering Russell Bentley, a U.S. citizen who had fought alongside pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine, Russian investigators said Friday.

Bentley, a 64-year-old self-described communist from Dallas, Texas, joined pro-Russia separatists in 2014 to fight against Ukrainian

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