A Moscow court fined Russia's biggest tech company Yandex 2 million rubles ($24,000) for stopping working to turn over user information to domestic intelligence services, state mediareported Monday.Yandex was condemned of repeatedly declining to offer the Federal Security Service (FSB) data on its users, which law enforcement authorities stated they needed in
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Russia attempted to assassinate a previous intelligence officer in the United States in a brazen stopped working quote that led in part to tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions, The New York Times reported Monday, mentioning three anonymous former senior U.S. officials.Alexander Poteyev was a previous colonel in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) who shared s
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Russian regions bordering Ukraine came under fire early Monday early morning, resulting in injuries to 7 people, including a kid, local authorities said.Strikes in Russia's southwestern Belgorod region damaged multiple domestic buildings in the Valuisk district, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram. The Valuisk municipal
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The United Nations accused Russia on Sunday of continuing to block humanitarian aid deliveries to Moscow-controlled locations in eastern Ukraine that have been impacted by the recent Kakhovka dam rupture.The breach of the dam on June 6 flooded big swathes of the Kherson region under Russian and Ukrainian control, forcing thousands to run away and
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Some 32,000 former prisoners recruited by the Wagner mercenary group have returned to Russia after fighting in Ukraine, the private military company’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said Sunday.

“As of June 18, 2023, 32,000 persons previously convicted and who took part in the special military operation among the ranks of the Wagner PMC went home at the

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This year's St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), called the Russian Davos, culminated Friday in a plenary session with President Vladimir Putin and Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune.Moderating the conversation was Dmitri Simes, a conservative U.S. political researcher and historian of Soviet origin, in another reflection of
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