A Russian volunteer soldier who threatened to detonate a grenade in public unless charges of desertion versus him were dropped has actually turned himself in to the authorities after speaking to the governor of Bashkortostan, local mediareported Wednesday.Security forces cordoned off a section of a highway in the southern Urals city of Ufa in action
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prompted his Russian equivalent Vladimir Putin in a call on Wednesday not to further intensify stress, after Moscow struck centers crucial for grain deliveries from Ukraine. Erdogan was an essential player in the now-collapsed offer that allowed for safe passage of Ukraine grain deliveries on the Black Sea, and has
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Russia announced Wednesday that it had begun naval workouts in the Baltic Sea, in the middle of increasing stress with its European next-door neighbors over the dispute in Ukraine.Russia routinely holds naval drills in the Baltic Sea, typically in response to NATO workouts in the area.The Russian Navy has played a key role in Moscow's assault on Ukraine by pummelling the
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President Vladimir Putin is working to silence his most vocal pro-war nationalist critics on the eve of this fall’s regional elections and the 2024 presidential election in which he is expected to seek six more years in power. 

Following the Wagner mutiny, which posed the biggest threat yet to Putin’s 23-year rule, the Kremlin now seeks to deploy t

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Russia's Supreme Court has actually maintained reporter Ivan Safronov's 22-year prison sentence for treason, a group of his advocates stated Wednesday.Safronov, 33, was found guilty in September 2022 of collecting secret details about the Russian military and handing it to Czech spies as a defense press reporter for the Russian papers Kommersant and
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Russia's far northwestern regions experienced a surge in warm weather in July, with air temperatures skyrocketing 3-4 degrees Celsius above typical, according to Tatyana Pozdnyakova, the chief meteorologist at the Meteonovosti news firm. Naryan-Mar, the administrative center of the Nenets autonomous district in the Arctic, saw temperature levels increase to 31.6
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