Residents of the Kremlin-controlled areas of four Ukrainian regions will soon have to put their clocks forward by an hour as their time zone switches to Moscow time, Russia’s Trade and Industry Ministry announced on Friday.

The move, which affects the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine, is part of what the

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Russia's funeral industry is experiencing unprecedented development due to military deaths from the almost year-long intrusion of Ukraine as well as high Covid-19 fatalities, the investigative news website The Insider reported Thursday.The outlet said it spoke with funeral and crematorium employees who reported high need from both customers and those
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday repeated a claim that neo-Nazis were committing crimes in Ukraine — an allegation Moscow has used to justify its military intervention — as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies," Putin said. 

"This is evidenced by the

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Russia's defense market has stepped up production of ammunition for the military to use in Ukraine, Sergei Chemezov, who heads the state defense corporation Rostec, said Friday. Our enemies' chatter about Russia apparently running out of rockets, shells, etc is complete rubbish, Chemezov informed the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. We have i
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A disgraced Russian monk who had actually barricaded himself inside his monastery with dozens of followers wassentenced to an overall of seven years in jail on Friday.Father Sergiy-- whose nonreligious name is Nikolai Romanov-- was already serving a 3.5-year prison sentence for prompting suicide, offending faiths and vigilantism.Moscow's Babushkinsky D
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Russia on Thursday accused the EU of seeking to fuel "geopolitical confrontation" by sending a civilian mission to monitor Armenia's volatile border with Azerbaijan.

Moscow has sought to maintain its role as a powerbroker between the ex-Soviet republics despite being bogged down in its offensive in Ukraine.

On Monday, the EU launched a civilian

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