Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday it returned to profit in 2024 after posting a record net loss the previous year.

Gazprom reported a net profit of 1.22 trillion rubles ($14.9 billion), reversing a 629 billion ruble ($7 billion) loss in 2023 — its first net loss in a quarter-century and the largest in its history.

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Ukrainian drone strikes on a market in the occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine's Kherson area eliminated seven individuals on Thursday, a Moscow-installed authorities said. Ukrainian Armed Forces introduced a significant strike with FPV drones versus civilians, stated Vladimir Saldo, the Kremlin-appointed head of the partly inhabited Kherson region. At l

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‘We Need to Recognize Russia&s Colonial Violence&: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova‘We Need to Recognize Russia&s Colonial Violence&: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova
‘We Need to Recognize Russia&s Colonial Violence&: Buryat Illustrator Seseg Jigjitova

Seseg Jigjitova, a Berlin-based illustrator from the Siberian republic of Buryatia, has emerged as a prominent critic of Russian colonialism and advocate for the rights of Buryats amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Buryatia, which shares a border of over 1,000 kilometers with Mongolia, has a population of just over 970,000, with 32% of

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Work on North Korea's newly unveiled warship may have involved assistance from Russia, South Korea's military said on Thursday.

On Saturday, Pyongyang unveiled a 5,000-ton destroyer-class vessel named Choe Hyon that some analysts said could be equipped with short-range tactical nuclear missiles.

Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Lee Sung-jun told

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Russia has more than tripled its 2025 budget deficit forecast to 1.7% of GDP, up from a previous estimate of 0.5%, citing falling oil prices triggered by the Trump administration’s escalating tariff war.

The Finance Ministry had initially projected a 2025 deficit of 1.17 trillion rubles ($14.3 billion), or 0.5% of GDP. Its latest revision,

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A Russian overnight drone attack killed at least two people and wounded 15 others in a residential neighborhood of Odesa, Ukrainian emergency officials said early Thursday.

"Unfortunately, two people died, according to preliminary information, and another 15 people were injured," Ukraine's State Emergency Service said in a statement.

It said

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