U.S. and other Western authorities approximate that close to 200,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded in Ukraine nearly one year into Moscow's intrusion of its western next-door neighbor, The New York Times reported Thursday. The figures for Ukraine and Russia are price quotes based on satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and o

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A minimum of 1,000 Russian reporters have actually left their country in the almost 12 months considering that Moscow got into Ukraine, according to a new report on the state of the web in Russia.A number of mostly European nations have actually accepted and helped keep and continue the reporters' work as Russia moved quickly to clamp down on independent wartime repor

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The former guv of Russia's Khabarovsk region, Sergei Furgal, was found guilty of murder by a Moscow region court on Thursday, according to state-run news firm RIA Novosti.The case against Furgal dates from 2020, when two years into his very first term as Khabarovsk guv he was jailed and charged with the double murder of entrepreneur

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Speaking during a ceremony in Volgograd on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it was "unbelievable, but true" that his country once again found itself being threatened by German tanks "with crosses on them." 

“Those who expect to win on the battlefield apparently do n

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Parliamentarians from 20 nations have urged Austria to disallow Russian delegates from attending an event of the world's biggest security body later on this month, in a letter seen by AFP on Thursday.The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s parliamentary assembly is to be held in Vienna on Feb. 23-24, the one-year anniversary

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A Russian trainee who stimulated debate for defending his thesis written by the fast-growing expert system tool ChatGPT will be allowed to keep his diploma, media reported Thursday.Alexander Zhadan stated Wednesday he had effectively used the U.S. business OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot to compose his work and receive a passing grade. In short,

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