Russia has been using Chinese-made engines to produce long-range attack drones for deployment in Ukraine since at least mid-2023, Reuters reported Friday, citing European intelligence sources.

The Russian company IEMZ Kupol was said to have manufactured over 2,500 Garpiya-A1 drones between July 2023 and July 2024. The Garpiya drone has a maximum

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A Russian senator this week called on fellow lawmakers to introduce a legal ban on quadrobics, a subculture revolving around the impersonation of animals that is rapidly gaining momentum among Russia's youth. 

“I am convinced that any subculture should remain within the bounds of reason and be safe for oneself and others,” Senator Natalia Kosikhina

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned from Russia, with AFP seeing the group being welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did not clarify whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is generally the case, however AFP reporters had actually previously seen Russian prisoners of war being
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Russia's Central Bank on Friday raised its essential interest rate from 18% to 19%, an extensively anticipated relocation as the country has a hard time to cool off inflation amidst skyrocketing military spending for the war in Ukraine. Current inflationary pressures remain high. By the end of 2024, yearly inflation is most likely to exceed the July forecast variety of 6.5-- 7.0%, the
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has awarded an honorary title to pro-Kremlin filmmaker and TV host Nikita Mikhalkov.

Kadyrov said he hosted Mikhalkov during his visit to the North Caucasus republic to attend a theater festival and premiere his play “12.” The play is a Chechnya-themed adaptation of his 2007 eponymous feature film, which was itself a r

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Leonid Nevzlin, a Russian-Israeli businessman and outspoken Kremlin critic, was accused Thursday by late opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s team of ordering a number of attacks against Navalny allies.

Nevzlin, a close associate of exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was accused of ordering assaults against Navalny ally Leonid Volkov in

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