Russian payments for Chinese items faced increasing delays and rising costs this past month due to stricter banking compliance in action to U.S. hazards of secondary sanctions, Reuters reported Friday, pointing out Russian sources acquainted with the matter.Chinese state banks have reportedly stopped transactions with Russian companies en masse, lea

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday that it apprehended two Colombian citizens on suspicion of fighting as mercenaries on the side of Ukraine.The detentions followed a Moscow court ruled Wednesday to position Jose Aron Medina and Alexander Ante in pre-trial detention till at least Oct. 22. Both males confront 15 years in jail if

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A court in Siberia's republic of Altai sentenced a paper publisher to 8 years in prison for spreading out incorrect info about the Russian armed force, the internet rights group Setevye Svobody (Net Freedoms Project) stated Friday.Sergei Mikhailov, who ran the Listok weekly newspaper in the regional capital of Gorno-Altaisk, was jailed in A

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Mongolia next week, the Kremlin announced Thursday, marking his first trip to a country that is legally obligated to arrest and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Last March, the ICC issued a warrant for Putin's arrest over accusations that Moscow unlawfully deported Ukrainian

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Lawmakers from the liberal opposition party Yabloko havecalled on Russia's Defense Ministry to stop releasing conscripts in the southwestern Kursk area as the Russian military struggles to stop Ukraine's attack near the border. A variety of media reports stated it was conscripts who took up the fight when the Ukrainian armed forces attacked the K

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Pro-war singers Shaman and Grigory Leps visited southwestern Russia's Kursk area on Thursday to captivate injured soldiers and send children who were being evacuated from their homes as Ukraine's incursion in the location continued into its 4th week.Between air raid alerts, acting Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnov shared videos on Telegram

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