Wage arrears among Russian companies surged in early 2025, reflecting growing financial pressures on businesses across several key industries, according to a report from the General Confederation of Trade Unions obtained by the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia.

While official government statistics indicate that wage arrears increased from 500 million

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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised Kyrgyzstan for preserving the “special status” of the Russian language, even as the Central Asian country moves to strengthen the use of Kyrgyz in public life.

“I’d like to note and thank you for the fact that the Russian language has been given a special status in Kyrgyzstan,” Putin told Kyrgyz Presi

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The Kremlin said Wednesday that Russia’s top investigative official is in regular contact with Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general as tensions rise over the arrests of each country's citizens in recent weeks.

“Chairman of the Investigative Committee [Alexander] Bastrykin is in constant contact with the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan,” Kremlin spo

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Russian security services raided the offices and facilities of Yuzhnouralzoloto (South Ural Gold), the country’s third-largest gold producer, as part of an ongoing investigation into environmental violations and workplace safety breaches, the state-run TASS news agency reported Wednesday.

According to TASS, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers

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Russian natural gas exports to Europe have fallen to their lowest level in half a century, leaving state energy giant Gazprom with billions of cubic meters of unsold gas and deepening the financial strain on one of the Kremlin’s most important economic engines.

Between January and June, Gazprom shipped just 8.33 billion cubic meters of gas to

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The Kremlin on Wednesday welcomed Washington's choice to stop briefly some weapons deliveries to Ukraine, stating minimized military assistance for Kyiv would bring Russia closer to its objectives in the war. The fewer the variety of weapons that are provided to Ukraine, the closer the end of the unique military operation, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov informed associate
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