A Russian lawmaker has called for legal action against President Vladimir Putin for calling the conflict in Ukraine a "war" instead of using an official term coined by Moscow. 

During a press conference on Thursday, Putin said Russia wants to "end this war" as soon as possible, referring to the fighting in Ukraine.

Officials in Moscow typically

The head of Russia’s republic of Tatarstan will lose the title of “president,” the last remaining symbol of Russian federalism following the Kremlin’s decades-long centralization of power.

Tatarstan’s president will instead hold the title “Rais,” an Arabic term meaning “leader,” according to the publication.

Lawmakers in the majority Muslim region

Belarus' opposition criticized Friday a lengthy prison sentence handed to a man accused of sabotaging railway equipment in the ex-Soviet country that Russia used as a launchpad for its Ukraine offensive.

"The resistance against the war continues in Belarus despite the risk of severe punishments. The criminal case against 'railway partisan' Vital

A senior Russian official warned Friday that Moscow would ban oil sales to countries that join a Western price cap on the country’s crude.

President Vladimir Putin said he plans to lay out next week the Kremlin’s response to the $60 per barrel price cap imposed this month by the European Union, G7 countries and Australia as part of the Western r