Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lashed out at criticism Friday over Moscow's intrusion of Ukraine at talks with dozens of foreign ministers in Jakarta, the European Union's top diplomat said.Moscow's invasion of Ukraine last year has actually cemented a deep Cold War-style rupture between Russia and the West, with the United States and major European

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Russia declined a request by South Africa not to send President Vladimir Putin to next month's BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa's deputy presidenttold regional media Friday.Earlier, Russian officialstold The Moscow Times that Putin's attendance remained uncertain in the face of an International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment over the u

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A senior lady was killed in the shelling of a Russian town near the border with Ukraine, regional authoritiessaid Friday.The Bryansk area Governor Alexander Bogomaz said that Ukrainian forces assaulted the village of Belaya Beryozka on the border with northeastern Ukraine's Sumy and Chernihiv regions.A female whose year of birth was offered as

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An accident at a uranium enrichment plant in main Russia's Ural mountains has actually left one employee dead and more than 100 were required to a healthcare facility for radiation inspections, regional media reported Friday.The plantsaid there was one victim in the depressurization of a cylinder containing diminished uranium hexafluoride, without showing whether the pe

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South Africa's graft-tainted ex-leader Jacob Zuma is getting medical treatment in Russia, his spokesman said Friday, a day after the country's highest court upheld a judgment that he must go back to prison. Zuma took a trip to Russia recently for health factors, the 81-year-old's spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi said in a statement. Manyi included that the

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Russian authorities have actually drafted a 10-point list of requirements that would make complex foreign businesses' exit from and potential go back to Russia, the Vedomosti company daily reported Friday.If a company is owned by a specific or parent from Russia's list of unfriendly nations, the profits from its sale to Russian owners may not be trans

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