The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday rebuffed a Russian demand that its athletes be treated the same as those of other nations, in a growing row over Russian and Belarusian participation in the 2024 Paris Games. The sanctions versus the Russian and Belarusian state and governments are not flexible, an IOC representative said.The
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday advised Russian President Vladimir Putin to take the actions required to reopen a crucial transit corridor in between Armenia and the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh. Since mid-December, a group of Azerbaijanis has actually been obstructing the only road into Karabakh from Armenia to oppose what they claim is
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The head of Russia's Olympic Committee said Tuesday that athletes representing Russiamust not undergo different conditions from those of other nations, in the middle of a growing row over their participation in the 2024 Paris Games. Russians need to take part precisely on the very same conditions as all other professional athletes. Any additional conditions or requirements
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), which represents journalists from 146 countries, has initiated the expulsion of Russia's Union of Journalists from its ranks, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

The IFJ announced its decision to expel the Russian union after journalist unions from Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland threatened to

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An ex-commander with Russia's notorious mercenary group Wagner who is presently seeking asylum in Norway described witnessing summary executions of fellow soldiers during an interview with The Moscow Times on Tuesday. Andrei Medvedev, 26, said that he saw a double execution at a Wagner center where the group was training prisoners hired
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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday backed a plan to set up joint military training centers with Belarus, with fears mounting that Minsk could enter the Ukraine conflict to fight with Moscow.

In a decree published Tuesday, Putin tasked the defense and foreign ministers to conduct talks with Belarus and sign an agreement to establish the facilities. 

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