Moscow prosecutors announced Monday that they are seeking criminal charges against prominent YouTuber and journalist Yury Dud for repeatedly violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.

Dud, 38, was designated a “foreign agent” in April 2022, weeks after condemning Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as an “imperial frenzy.” He left the country short

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Russia's biggest lender Sberbanksaid Monday that it will pay record dividends for the 3rd successive year on its 2024 results.The payout lines up with the Finance Ministry's push for state-owned business to disperse at least half of their revenues as dividends. The ministry holds a majority stake in Sberbank through the National Welfare F

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Russia's most popular bread, the sliced up white loaf, might disappear from store shelves if authorities continue with strict rate caps on commonly consumed items, the owner of the country's biggest bakeshop and confectionery holding cautioned on Monday.The comments followed Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in March stated the government was prepared to adopt

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Russian intelligence agencies are recruiting Ukrainian teenagers to carry out espionage and sabotage operations inside the country, the Financial Times reported Monday, citing senior officials in Kyiv. 

Russia is systematically targeting teenagers and young adults, including orphans, individuals displaced by conflict and those facing financial

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A court in Novosibirsk on Monday sentenced a Siberian cult leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ to 12 years in prison for harming the mental and physical health of his followers.

Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who calls himself “Vissarion,” founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after what he described as a di

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Law enforcement authorities in the Samara region on Monday released a criminal examination into declared Nazi rehabilitation after a group of current high school graduates filmed themselves singing a patriotic Ukrainian song.The local branch of Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major criminal offenses, stated it discovered the illegal actions

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