Russian ally Kyrgyzstan on Saturday quietly took apart Central Asia's highest monolith to Vladimir Lenin, the advanced creator of the Soviet Union.Ex-Soviet states throughout the area are looking for to reinforce their nationwide identities, relabeling cities that have Russian-sounding names and replacing statues of Soviet figures with local and

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Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber airplanes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation professionals, straining a modernization program that is already delayed.Satellite images of airfields in Siberia and Russia's far north program comprehensive damage from the attacks, with a number of

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Russia's National Guard said Friday it had killed a man it caught trying to launch an attack on a military site using drones packed with grenades.

The incident came after Ukraine carried out an audacious coordinated drone attack on Russian airbases this week that damaged billions of dollars' worth of nuclear-capable military planes.

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The Russian private military company Wagner revealed Friday that it has actually completed its mission supporting Mali's military junta in its fight versus Islamist insurgents. PMC Wagner completed its primary mission in Mali, the group said in a declaration on its official Telegram channel. PMC Wagner is returning home. Mali, a landlocked nation in the

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Most Russians no longer consider the United States their country’s main enemy, according to a Levada Center survey released Thursday, as Donald Trump’s return to the White House fuels hopes of a diplomatic thaw between Moscow and Washington.

The share of respondents who named the U.S. as the most hostile country toward Russia has nearly halved to

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U.S. citizen Joseph Tater, who was arrested in Moscow last August and later on sent for obligatory psychiatric treatment, has left Russia, the state news agency TASS stated on Friday.Tater, who, according to a Kremlin source last month, was one of 9 Americans being kept in Russia that Washington desired returned in a prisoner exchange, was sentenced

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