Turkmenistan’s flagship carrier Turkmenistan Airlinesannounced it was suspending direct flights to Moscow starting Tuesday, just days after consecutive drone attacks on the Russian capital.

Turkmenistan Airlines will instead perform flights to and from the city of Kazan, located some 800 kilometers east of Moscow, the company said in a statement.

The

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Demand for abortion drugs in Russia reached an all-time high in 2022, the Kommersant company daily reported Wednesday, citing data by the RNC Pharma consultancy. A total of 1.4 million drugs that induce abortions and 2.2 million emergency contraception drugs were offered in Russia in 2015, marking a 60% and 53% increase from 2021 respectively. The
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Workers reduced a hammer and sickle from an imposing sculpture neglecting Kyiv on Tuesday in a project to get rid of Soviet icons that increase after Russia invaded last year.The 62-meter-high steel figure of a woman holding a sword and shield bearing the U.S.S.R.-linked symbols was revealed in 1981 as a memorial to Soviet success in World War II.But
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Russia’s plans to launch a crypto-based “Digital Ruble” are not going to help it avoid Western sanctions in the foreseeable future, experts say, despite Russian officials’ claims that the new currency could deal a fatal blow to the U.S.-led global financial system.

A new law paving the way for the roll-out of the Digital Ruble comes into force on

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After 1.5 Years of War, Ukrainian Refugees in Russia Grapple With Assimilation QuestionAfter 1.5 Years of War, Ukrainian Refugees in Russia Grapple With Assimilation QuestionAfter 1.5 Years of War, Ukrainian Refugees in Russia Grapple With Assimilation Question
After 1.5 Years of War, Ukrainian Refugees in Russia Grapple With Assimilation Question

MOSCOW — Tatiana moved to Russia from Sloviansk, a town located in a Kyiv-held part of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, in March 2022 as shelling attacks intensified near her home.

After arriving, she was able to receive Russian citizenship fairly quickly, she told The Moscow Times, under a simplified process for Ukrainians.

Although Tatiana, who

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A court in southern Russia has sentenced a previous regional administration official to 12 years in jail on charges of providing Ukraine with state secrets, regional mediareported Tuesday.The Krasnodar Region Court discovered the unidentified previous main guilty of treason and handed him a 12-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.He was accused of
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