Russia provided a decree Tuesday to prohibit oil sales to countries and business that abide by a cost cap agreed by Western countries in reaction to Moscow's offensive in Ukraine. The supply of Russian oil and oil items to foreign legal entities and people is restricted if the agreements for these supplies directly or indirectly are using a

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Prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin has actually been transferred to a detention center some 1,000 kilometers from Moscow even though his sentence need to still be authorized by an upper court, his attorney stated Tuesday. A Moscow court sentenced Yashin, 39, to eight-and-a-half years in jail previously in December after he was charged with spreading incorrect

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Indian police are investigating the sudden deaths of a wealthy Russian politician who reportedly criticized the war in Ukraine and his traveling companion at a luxury hotel, authorities said on Tuesday.

The body of Pavel Antov, 65, was found on Saturday in a pool of blood outside his lodgings in eastern Odisha state, where he was on holiday with

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Russian President Vladimir Putin provided symbolic rings to the leaders of the numerous former Soviet republics that now make up the Moscow-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at an informal summit in St. Petersburg on Monday evening.The summit was held versus the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has actually triggered a crisis

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States on Tuesday against ordering a “decapitation strike” on President Vladimir Putin.

Lavrov’s comments refer to an anonymous U.S. military official telling Newsweek back in September that a special operation “to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin” had been “front and center” among the o

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The prime minister of Armenia on Tuesday questioned the function of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh as he talked about a blockade of the breakaway area with President Vladimir Putin.Since mid-December Azerbaijani activists have actually been blocking the Lachin corridor, the only road in between Armenia and Karabakh, to protest what they declare is unlawful

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