Russia advanced on 477 square kilometers (184 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in August, Moscow's biggest monthly increase since October 2022, according to data supplied by the Institute for the Study of War and analyzed by AFP.

The Ukrainian army, for its part, made rapid gains in early August in Russia after a surprise incursion into the

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Viktor Bout, the well-known Russian arms dealership released in a 2022 prisoner exchange for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, has used to hallmark his name for beverages.According to the news website RBC-Wine, Bout used to register his first and surname in Cyrillic, the Latin transcription Victor Bout and the expression Kroot Kak Boot ( Tou
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Mongolia late Monday, marking his first visit to a country that is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it issued an arrest warrant for him last year.

Russian state television broadcasted Putin's plane landing in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar.

Putin is wanted by the ICC for the

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The deputy commander of Russia's newly-formed Leningrad Military District, Major General Valery Mumindzhanov, has actually been detained on bribery charges, federal investigators said Monday.Mumindzhanov is accused of accepting more than 20 million rubles ($223,325) in allurements in exchange for assisting companies safe federal government agreements for supplying
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Russia imported more than $29 million in U.S. dollar and euro banknotes from Rwanda this year, despite Western sanctions on cash imports, the investigative outlet Vyorstka reported on Monday, citing confidential customs data.

The United States and the European Union banned the export of their banknotes to Russia in March 2022 following the

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's officesaid Monday that his senior military adviser went to Russia to talk about the return of Israeli hostages held by the Hamas militants. The Prime Minister's Military Secretary, Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman returned this morning from a check out to Moscow, the objective of which was to advance the hostages deal, the of
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