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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday vowed to press onward with Russia's war in Ukraine and railed against the West for a litany of wrongdoings in his first state-of-the-nation address since invading Ukraine one year ago.

Addressing lawmakers from both houses of parliament alongside other

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While the majority of members of Russia's political and business elite have actually come to terms with the invasion of Ukraine one year in, some are disappointed by the Kremlin's apparent inability to act more forcefully against Kyiv-- and others said the mood is downbeat. The Moscow Times talked to more than a lots top Russian authorities ahead of President Vladimir

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A Russian missile smashed a Ukrainian apartment complex, killing dozens. Pro-Russian propagandists offered a slick counter-narrative that shifted the blame away from Moscow-- using pseudo-fact-checking as a tool of disinformation.Since the start of its invasion one year back, Russia and its advocates have looked for to strongly misshape Moscow's

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China's foreign minister said Tuesday that Beijing is deeply worried about the dispute in Ukraine, which is intensifying and even leaving control. China has actually sought to place itself as a neutral celebration on the war in Ukraine, while preserving close ties with its tactical ally Russia. Beijing has actually pledged to release a proposition focused on

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Person Rights Watch on Tuesday implicated Russia of committing a war criminal activity with a rocket attack that killed some 60 getting away civilians at a railway station in eastern Ukraine.The attack on the Kramatorsk train station in April is among the deadliest targeting civilians since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year.Russia has actually denied

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A dissident blogger who is a singing critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov showed up alive Tuesday after going missing out on for more than 2 months.Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a YouTuber based in Sweden, disappeared in late November as the Chechen opposition declared he had been shot dead in the middle of a string of politically motivated murders of ethnic Chechens

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