Artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine on Friday despite Russian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to pause attacks for 36 hours for the Orthodox Christmas.

The brief ceasefire declared by Putin earlier this week was supposed to begin at 09:00 GMT Friday and would have been the first full pause since

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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin, is embracing the rhetoric of the medieval crusades in urging support for Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine.

When Pope Urban ordered the first crusade to the Middle East in 1095, he told Christians to rise up and defend fellow believers, promising that their sins

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has bought his soldiers to observe a short-term ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 6-7, the Kremlin revealed on Thursday. The choice follows calls by Russia's spiritual leader, Patriarch Kirill, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier on Thursday for a ceasefire in the 10-month
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President Vladimir Putin told Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan he was open to dialog with Ukraine if Kyiv accepts the territories occupied by Moscow as Russian, the Kremlin said Thursday. 

"Putin again confirmed Russia's openness to serious dialogue on the condition of Kyiv authorities fulfilling the well-known and repeatedly voiced requirements

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Boris Bondarev, a previous member of Russia's delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, now lives decently in Switzerland with his better half and their kittycat-- and spends a great deal of time on Twitter.The ex-diplomat is not able to return to Russia after openly quitting his job in May when he stated the invasion of Ukraine was a bloody, witless and a
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Imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski went on trial in Minsk on Thursday in what advocates see as a bid to clamp down on Belarus's highest-profile human rights company, Vesna, which he founded.Bialiatski, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with two other human rights organizations from Russia and Ukraine for his
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