Lawmakers in Russia’s lower-house State Duma on Tuesday ratified a 20-year strategic partnership treaty with Iran, deepening military and political ties between the two countries as they remain under heavy Western sanctions.

The pact, signed by President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in January,aims to strengthen

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Russia's armed force stated Tuesday that its forces regained control over among the last towns in the Kursk area still held by Ukrainian troops.Ukraine released a surprise attack into the Kursk region in August, making it the largest ground offensive versus Russia given that WWII. However, in recent months, a Russian counteroffensive has gradually
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Russia's Central Bank has not received any requests from Western organizations to return to the Russian market, in spite of media speculation of restored interest in the country, Governor Elvira Nabiullina said Tuesday. As for business that wish to return, we have not received any demands in the monetary sector yet, Nabiullina informed Russian lawmakers, air conditioning
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Late Sunday evening, Moscow residents may have been surprised to see NHL star Alexander Ovechkin’s image and the number “895” projected onto the Ostankino TV tower on the north side of the Russian capital.

The 540-meter Soviet-era monolith, completed in 1963 just months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, lit up to mark a historic sporting moment:

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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and 2 Russian cosmonauts lifted off Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan en route to the International Space Station.The MS-27 craft, decorated to mark the 80th anniversary of completion of World War II, went for 10:47 a.m. local time, according to video broadcast by Russia's R
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Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa has family ties to Russia through his brother and top cabinet appointee, who is married to a Russian businesswoman, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.

Over the weekend, Syrian media reported that al-Sharaa appointed his brother, Maher al-Sharaa, as secretary-general to the presidency — a senior

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