Muscovites were continuing to brave the threat of arrest to lay flowers at an improvised memorial to the victims of a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, AFP journalists witnessed on Monday.

The rare criticism of Russia's almost year-long military campaign in Ukraine comes on the back of sweeping legislation that all but outlaws

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Russian citizens transferring to Turkey in recent weeks are being refused house licenses, independent Russian-language media outlet Current Time reported Monday. Because Dec. 26, Russian citizens who left Russia following the invasion of Ukraine and the military mobilization have actually been denied short-term residence permits for tourist in several
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A former member of Russian mercenary group Wagner who fled to Norway about 10 days ago has been arrested for violating immigration law, Norwegian police said Monday.

Twenty-six-year-old Andrei Medvedev crossed the Russian-Norwegian border in the far north in the early hours of Jan. 13 and sought asylum in the Scandinavian country.

His lawyer told

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Russia has expelled Estonia’s ambassador from Moscow in a move against its “Russophobic” Baltic neighbor, Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday as Tallinn pledged additional military aid to Ukraine.

In a statement, the Russian ministry slammed Estonia’s announcement of the expulsion of 21 Russian diplomats and embassy staff to reach parity

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was welcomed by his South African counterpart for talks in Pretoria on Monday, in a visit that has actually stimulated criticism against the background of the war in Ukraine.A continental powerhouse, South Africa has actually declined to condemn Russia's intrusion of Ukraine and withstood taking sides over the war.The dispute has
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A Russian proxy authorities in east Ukraine has actually claimed to have visited Soledar, the flattened town in the Donetsk area of Ukraine that Moscow said it captured this month.Denis Pushilin, Moscow's leading official responsible for Donetsk, stated late Sunday he had checked out the ruined salt mining town with Zurab Makiev, a member of Russia's parliament.Pus
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