Georgia’s ruling and opposition parties have ruled out restoring diplomatic relations with Russia unless Moscow returns the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the business newspaper Kommersant reported Monday, citing senior officials in the South Caucasus country.

Russia is one of the few countries to recognize the two regions as

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A court in the city of Yekaterinburg ordered the closure of a charity foundation created by prominent Kremlin critic and former mayor Yevgeny Roizman over alleged misuse of funds, the exiled news outlet Mediazonareported Monday.

The Oktyabrsky District Courtsided with the Justice Ministry’s Sverdlovsk region branch in ruling the Roizman Foundation g

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Russia could face a significant housing shortage by 2027, as a sharp slowdown in new residential construction threatens to leave the country with a shortfall of up to 30 million square meters of housing, according to a report by DOM.RF, the government’s housing and development financing agency.

New housing projects in the first quarter of 2025

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Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it had summoned Russia’s ambassador to demand answers over reports that Moscow police used violence against Kyrgyz nationals during a raid on a bathhouse last week.

Videos posted Saturday by a Kyrgyz lawmaker showed masked men wearing red armbands forcing dozens of half-naked men to crawl and lie face down

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Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that its missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy killed “more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen” during a meeting of military commanders, breaking a 24-hour silence as it denied targeting civilians.

Ukrainian officials said the Sunday morning strike killed 34 people, including two children, and wounded 117

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Russia’s attempts to boost its flagging birth rate — through policies promoting “traditional values,” tighter abortion restrictions and officials’ encouragement of larger families — appear to be falling short, as the number of births has fallen to its lowest level in centuries.

According to data released by the state statistics agency Rosstat,

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