MOSCOW-- Vladimir Shushvalov would stop at nothing to see Barbie. Since the Hollywood movie based on the iconic toy doll will not be shown in Russian movie theaters, Shushvalov invested almost 30,000 rubles ($335) to fly from Moscow to Astana, Kazakhstan for its best there last week. I definitely love films, the 21-year-old trainee informed The Moscow T
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursdaygranted U.S. hockey gamer Brennan Menell Russian citizenship, permitting him to play for the country's nationwide team.Menell, 26, is a defenseman from Minnesota whosigned an one-year contract with the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) team Dynamo Moscow in September 2022, ending up being the 3rd U.S.-born player to ever
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday said it arrested a Russian Navy sailor who it accused of plotting to blow up a warship.

The FSB said the sailor had been recruited by Ukrainian special services “to commit a terror attack aboard one of the Black Sea Fleet ships carrying high-precision missile weapons.”

It added that the sailor had

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Russian legislators will be prohibited from visiting the battle zone in Ukraine without direct approval from the nation's military leadership, the RBC organization outletreported Thursday, citing three confidential sources in Russia's parliament.Since Moscow released its full-blown invasion of Ukraine in 2015, politicians in Russia have frequently made trips
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Updated with modified death toll.Four individuals have been eliminated and 12 injured in a Russian helicopter crash in southern Siberia's republic of Altai, the area's emergencies ministry stated Thursday.The Mi-8 transportation helicopter was approaching landing near the village of Tyungur not far from the border with Kazakhstan when it struck electric wires,
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday used complimentary grain to six poor African nations as he introduced a top with leaders from the continent days after withdrawing from the Ukraine grain export deal.The two-day summit in Putin's native St. Petersburg is being inspected as a test of his support in Africa, where he keeps support despite
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