Russia's Foreign Ministrysaid Tuesday it had actually summoned a senior U.S. Embassy official in Moscow over what it called intriguing actions of American reporters reporting from Ukrainian-held parts of the Kursk region, as well as a supposed U.S. mercenary presence on Russian territory.The ministry said it expressed strong demonstration to U.S. Embassy C

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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday went to the North Caucasus city of Beslan ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Beslan school siege, the deadliest fear attack in contemporary Russian history.On Sept. 1, 2004, armed militants from Chechnya took more than 1,100 individuals hostage at Beslan School No. 1 in the republic of North Ossetia, holding them

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Russian forces said Tuesday they had captured the town of New York in eastern Ukraine, as Moscow — under pressure by a Kyiv counterattack on its territory — presses on with its full-scale invasion.

The Defense Ministry said its troops had captured "one of the largest settlements of the Toretsk agglomeration and the strategically important logistics

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Ukrainian legislators on Tuesday voted to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as Kyiv continues to sever spiritual, social and institutional ties with entities it believes are aligned with Moscow.Ukraine has actually for years sought to limit its spiritual connections with Russia-- a procedure greatly sped up by Moscow's 2022 invasion, which was endorsed by t

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Wages for Russian truck drivers are rising faster than those in any other profession this year, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday, citing the recruitment website Headhunter and the trucking association Avtogruzex.

Median truck driver wages reached 131,000 rubles ($1,450) per month in January-June 2024, a 74% increase compared to the

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Czech authorities announced Tuesday that they prepare to use a part of the interest earned on frozen Russian assets kept in the European Union to buy ammo for Ukraine's military.The EU froze around 200 billion euros ($221.5 billion) in Russian Central Bank assets as part of sanctions imposed on Moscow following its full-scale invasion

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