A court in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka Peninsula on Monday sentenced Vladimir Yefimov, the head of the local branch of the liberal opposition party Yabloko, to an additional two years in prison for displaying extremist symbols and “discrediting” the Russian military.

The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city court also barred Yefimov, 70, from managing

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The mayor of the southwestern Kursk region’s capital city announced Monday that he was stepping down from office due to family reasons.

“I made a difficult decision to resign as head of the city at my own request due to family circumstances,” Kursk Mayor Igor Kutsaksaid at a regional government meeting, according to the local broadcaster 46tv.ru.

The

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Russian authorities on Monday designated Japan’s Northern Territories Issue Association as an “undesirable organization,” accusing it of promoting revanchist ideas and undermining Russian sovereignty.

The Tokyo-based group advocates for Japan’s claim over Russia’s Kuril Islands — known in Japan as the Northern Territories — whose disputed status has

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Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th NHL career goal on Sunday, etching his name into ice hockey history by finally passing the previous all-time record he shared with Wayne Gretzky.

Washington Capitals ace Ovechkin — who had tied Gretzky's 26-year-old mark with two goals on Friday — scored on a power play early in the second period of Sunday's clash at t

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A Russian court has reduced the prison sentence of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, who was convicted of threatening to kill his girlfriend and stealing from her, state media reported Monday.

Black was sentenced in June 2024 to three years and nine months by a court in Vladivostok, but an appeals court cut the sentence to three years and two

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The British armed force has discovered Russian sensing units in seas around the country that it thinks were trying to spy on its nuclear submarines, the Sunday Times reported.The Royal Navy found some devices planted on the sea bed while several washed ashore, the paper reported.Military and intelligence chiefs think they were planted to gather
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