Russian forces have downed 9 drones over the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, its Moscow-installed Governor Sergei Aksyonov stated Thursday. Last night and this morning, nine drones were identified above republic of Crimea area, Aksyonov said on Telegram. Six gadgets were shot down by air-defense forces while three

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President Vladimir Putin has signed a personal decree giving the Russian government powers to buy Western companies at a significant discount, the Financial Times reported Thursday, a move likely to make it harder for them to leave the country.The Russian government would be provided concern rights to purchase any Western asset for sale at knockdown

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday the government would obstruct the building of a brand-new Russian embassy near the nation's parliament, mentioning risks to national security.Russia currently holds the lease for a tract near Parliament House in Australia's capital Canberra, where it had actually prepared to find a new embassy

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A fire broke out Wednesday at a power plant in Russia's southern Rostov area, with authorities denying local media reports recommending a surge may have been the cause.Video shared online revealed big flames and plumes of black smoke increasing from the Novocherkasskaya power station, found some 50 kilometers southeast of Ukraine's partially R

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Russian legislators voted on Wednesday to prohibit legal or surgical sex modifications, the most recent in a series of conservative proposals advanced because Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine in 2015. Russia's lower home of parliament, the State Duma, authorized in its very first reading the costs that bans medical interventions targeted at changing the sex of a

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Mali's junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, discussed security and financial relations in between their two nations, both sides reported on Wednesday.During the phone talks, at the initiative of the Malian side, the two leaders paid specific attention to trade and economic relations, including the

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