A 70-year-old lady waskilled and two others were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in the main Lipetsk area early Thursday, with authorities in Kyiv stating they targeted a Russian military battery manufacturing plant.Lipetsk area Governor Igor Artamonovsaid the woman passed away and the others were wounded from falling debris, not far from the

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Emergency contraceptives and medical abortion drugs have all but disappeared from Russian pharmacy shelves after authorities imposed tighter controls on medications containing the drug mifepristone, the investigative outlet Vyorstka reported Wednesday.

The Health Ministry regulation, introduced amid a nationwide demographic crisis and record-low

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Tuesday providing withdrawal guarantees for foreign financiers in the Russian stock market, a relocation aimed at attracting brand-new foreign capital amidst continuous Western sanctions. The decree, which creates a brand-new kind of represent potential investors, comes as foreign financial investment in Russia has been up to

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From Plane Crash to Deadly Arrests: What&s Behind the Russia-Azerbaijan StandoffFrom Plane Crash to Deadly Arrests: What&s Behind the Russia-Azerbaijan Standoff
From Plane Crash to Deadly Arrests: What&s Behind the Russia-Azerbaijan Standoff

Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan hit an all-time low this week, as simmering tensions over the death of two Azerbaijani men amid mass arrests in Russia have rapidly escalated into a full-blown diplomatic crisis.

The Moscow Times traces how relations between Russia and Azerbaijan unraveled, and why they may get worse before they get better.

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The head of the southern Siberian republic of Khakassia on Wednesday vetoed a controversial bill that would do away with the region’s two-tier system of local governance and consolidate power under a centralized structure.

Regional head Valentin Konovalov, a member of the Communist Party, accused regional lawmakers from the ruling United Russia

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Kids of soldiers deployed to Ukraine are significantly being classified as at-risk and eliminated from their homes to state-run orphanages and boarding schools, according to reports from authorities in numerous Russian regions reviewed by the Sibirskiy Ekspress Telegram channel.Olga Kazantseva, the children's rights commissioner for the Altai r

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