The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a strong advocate of President Vladimir Putin, worked for Soviet intelligence while living in Switzerland in the 1970s, Swiss newspapers reported, pointing out declassified archives.According to the Sonntagszeitung and Le Matin Dimanche weeklies, the Swiss cops file on the man who today works as the spiritual

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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed the most sincere acknowledgements to his Turkish and Syrian counterparts after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake eliminated over 1,400 individuals early Monday. We share the grief and discomfort of those who lost their loved ones and loved ones, Putin informed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a message published on the Kremlin's w

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Russian lawmakers will consider confiscating the property of citizens abroad who speak out against Russia’s war in Ukraine and donate to the Ukrainian army, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia daily reported Monday.

Calls to punish the tens of thousands of Russians who fled in opposition to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine intensified last month, when an

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As Russian officials play down the economic impact of President Vladimir Putin’s order to invade Ukraine, the emergence of end-of-year data from 2022 in recent weeks has painted a mixed picture of the economy’s performance.

There were some positive signs: inflation receded after hitting a peak in April, while oil and gas revenues reached record

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Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov will be replaced by the chief of the military intelligence ahead of an expected Russian offensive and following corruption scandals, a senior lawmaker said Sunday. 

"We are preparing decisions and negotiations that should strengthen our soldiers, give Ukraine more international support and more weapons,"

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Ukraine battled a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, its leaders stated Saturday, as it withstood a wave of shelling in the disputed Donetsk region.Officials meanwhile recovered the bodies of two British volunteers, killed trying to help leave individuals from the eastern warzone.And the southern city of Odesa suffered a

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