Russia said Monday that 300 military personnel deployed in Syria were helping efforts to clear up debris following an earthquake that killed hundreds there and in neighboring Turkey.

The Defense Ministry said staff and 60 units of military hardware had begun "removing rubble, searching for victims and providing them with medical assistance in areas

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The head of Russia's notorious mercenary group Wagner posted a video to social media on Monday that he claimed showed him flying on a fighter jet that had just completed a bombing sortie over the city of Bakhmut, the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine. 

In the very dark video, Prigozhin appeared to be inside a plane flying in darkness,

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The West's latest wave of sanctions on Russian energy exports looks for to strike Moscow more difficult than its previous moves over the Ukraine war.An EU-wide ban on Russian oil products -- consisting of diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel-- came into result on Sunday along with a Group of Seven (G7) cost cap on the same items.That broadened on an EU embargo on seaborne

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A court in Moscow sentenced the first individual to have actually been charged under Russia's wartime law against spreading intentionally incorrect info to 9 years in prison in absentia on Monday, the independent broadcaster Sota reported.Veronika Belotserkovskaya, a Ukrainian-born Russian journalist and the owner of a culinary school in France where she

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News that Tbilisi is moving forward with the purchase of Russian-made subway cars has been met with outrage in Georgia, where dealings with the northern neighbor have become particularly controversial amid the Ukraine war.

Though the deal dates to 2021, Tbilisi City Hall confirmed this week for the first time that Russia’s war on Ukraine, and W

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Air-raid shelter across Russia are undergoing systematic maintenances following a Kremlin order to update the nation's crumbling Soviet-era facilities, according to present and previous authorities who spoke with The Moscow Times. Much of Russia's countless bunkers, strengthened cellars and other safe hideouts have actually been mothballed for d

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