Russia will take measures to prevent border incursions from Ukraine following an alleged deadly attack by Ukrainian “saboteurs,” the Kremlin said Friday.

Russian officials claimed Thursday that two Ukrainian sabotage groups crossed into Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, killing two civilians, injuring a 10-year-old boy and wounding s

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Belarus on Friday handed a 10-year jail term to Nobel Prize-winning activist Ales Bialiatski, drawing immediate condemnation internationally.Bialiatski, who established the authoritarian country's most prominent best group, has repeatedly encountered trouble with security forces in Belarus, which is often referred to as Europe's last dictatorship. He was

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, said Friday that the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was "practically surrounded" by Russian forces.

In a video published by his press service, Prigozhin can be seen saying that Kyiv's forces had access to only one road leading out of the city, which has been the site of bloody

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Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has warned the country faces an impending financial crisis and used his appearance at an economic forum in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Thursday to urge the Kremlin to ease its rules on foreign investment in the country’s economy.

“There will already be no money next year. We will need foreign investors,” Int

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South Korea's Justice Ministry is to appeal a court judgment that granted 2 Russian men leaving military mobilization the right to look for refugee status, The Korea Times reported Wednesday. 3 males, whose identities haven't been revealed to safeguard their member of the family in Russia came to Incheon International Airport late on different dates l

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Like numerous other independent Russian journalists, the staff of the St. Petersburg-based news site Bumaga transferred to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last year to prevent censorship, fines or jail time in the middle of their nation's wartime crackdown on the free press.Once the dust settled from their relocation, they faced a brand-new challenge: Staying

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