Austria's Raiffeisen Bank is hoping the war in Ukraine will end soon to prevent a costly exit from Russia, Reuters reported Thursday, mentioning numerous sources familiar with the matter.The news outlet said Austrian officials are withstanding pressure from the European Central Bank (ECB) for Raiffeisen to spin off its Russian subsidiary by September.Vien
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Ukraine stated Thursday that stress around the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was decreasing, after Kyiv and Moscow implicated each other today of plotting justifications at the atomic facility. Tension is slowly reducing, Nataliya Gumenyuk, an army spokeswoman, said, including that this was thanks to the powerful work of
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Russia announced Thursday that it was shuttering Finland's consulate in St. Petersburg and expelling nine of its diplomats, calling the move a response to a "confrontational anti-Russian policy" being pursued by Helsinki.

NATO's newest member Finland, which shares a long border with Russia, earlier this month expelled nine diplomats working at the

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Russian authorities are still investigating Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin over his failed mutiny last month despite the Kremlin’s promise to drop the criminal charges against him, state television reported late Wednesday.

“Nobody planned to close this case,” journalist Eduard Petrov said on a state-run political talk show, referring to Pri

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A Russian court has sentenced two Ukrainian citizens to more than 20 years in prison over an attempted assassination of a Russian-installed official in occupied Ukraine, state media reported Thursday.

Yury Domanchuk and Vitaly Skakun were arrested in December 2022 shortly after an explosion injured Vitaly Bulyuk — the Kremlin-backed deputy governor

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has shot and killed a male it implicated of attempting to blow up a gas circulation network in the western Siberian region of Tyumen, state media reported Thursday. The FSB said it had foiled a terrorist attack carried out by Russian fans of nationalist concepts, who acted under the command of Ukrainian m
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