Russian legislators on Tuesdaypassed a bill raising the upper age limit for military conscription and prohibiting draftees from leaving the nation, as Moscow continues its efforts to expand the swimming pool of potential recruits for its war in Ukraine.Under current Russian law, all males aged 18-27 are required to complete a 1 year regard to required military

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Russia said Tuesday that one of its military patrol boats had fended off an attack overnight in the Black Sea, where tensions have been developing after Moscow revoked a deal securing Ukrainian grain shipments. Ukraine's armed forces performed an unsuccessful attack with two marine drones against the Sergei Kotov patrol ship overnight, the

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Russia will receive “super priority” rights in acquiring the assets of strategic foreign companies that leave the country, Interfaxreported Monday, citing an unpublished draft presidential decree.

“Russia’s preferential right to acquire shares is realized regardless of the preferential rights of other persons,” the text reportedly reads.

The list of

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President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a questionable law that bans legal and surgical sex modifications, a relocation that denies transgender Russians of the right to gain access to gender-affirming services. The law, that makes medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of an individual and the state registration of a change of gender without an

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Moscow residents were startled awake in the middle of the night as Ukrainian drones crashed close to the Russian Defense Ministry building in the city center on Monday and another hit an office building in a southern area of the capital.

“Around 3:30-3:40 a.m. I heard a very loud sound of an explosion and then the sound of car sirens,” said one Mus

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A record $253 billion has been pulled out of Russia considering that the start of its full-blown intrusion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian Central Bank has said.The net capital outflow from Russia starting February 2022 and ending June 2023 was calculated by the Bank's Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting. Net inflows on present transaction a

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