A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Siberia’s Kemerovo region overnight Thursday, according to Russia’s seismic monitoring center.

The quake struck around midnight local time, with the intensity at the epicenter measured at 5.8. Videos shared on social media showed damage to apartments, with tiles falling from walls and sections of ceilings collapsing.

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Russia’s military had anticipated a possible Ukrainian incursion into the southwestern Kursk region for months, according to documents seen by The Guardian.

Ukrainian troops crossed into the Kursk region on Aug. 6, advancing several kilometers into Russian territory and capturing scores of towns and villages, including the border town of Sudzha.

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Russian home entertainment channel TNT will relay the final episode of its long-running show Comedy Club this Friday, ending an almost 20-year run amid rumors of a significant revamp. Comedy Club is closing, Gazprom Media Holding, TNT's parent company, revealed Thursday. With 20 seasons on air, more than 800 original episodes, two TEFI awards, 1,500
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President Vladimir Putin made an unannounced see Thursday to a drone manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg that produces reconnaissance airplane for the Russian military to use in Ukraine.The Kremlin launched a short video showing Putin reaching the Special Technological Center together with Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Kremlin aide
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A male implicated of assisting arrange attacks on allies of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was apprehended in Poland, the independent news outlet Sirena reported Thursday, pointing out a letter from the Polish Prosecutor's Office.Last week, Navalny's team released an examination claiming that Leonid Nevzlin, an exiled billionaire and associate of
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The ex-husband of Wildberries founder Tatiana Bakalchuk, Russia's most affluent female, was jailed Thursday following a fatal shootout at the online seller's headquarters in Moscow the day in the past, his lawyers said.The shooting event, which happened simply a couple of blocks from the Kremlin, left 2 security personnel dead and several others others
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