The head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said on Thursday that the U.S. government had switched off a satellite that transmitted its Russian-language program into Russia.

The Prague-based station, founded by the United States during the Cold War to counter Soviet propaganda, has seen its funding frozen by U.S. President Donald Trump amid a drive

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A Russian court declared former presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin bankrupt over past campaign debt, the Kommersant business newspaper reported Thursday.

Nadezhdin, 61, sought to challenge President Vladimir Putin in the March 2024 presidential race on an anti-war platform but was barred from running. Though unsuccessful, his short-lived campaign

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Russia's budget revenues from oil and gas fell 17% year-over-year to 1.08 trillion rubles ($12.8 billion) in March, the Finance Ministry reported Thursday.

The government collected approximately 230 billion rubles ($2.7 billion) less in levies, which account for one-third of its total revenue, compared to March 2024.

Forced discounts on Russian oil,

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The Kremlin is capitalizing on Syria's energy crisis in an effort to keep its military bases in the nation, even as it refuses to turn over fugitive former totalitarian Bashar al-Assad to the new government.Syria has been in desperate requirement of oil, diesel and gas because December 2024, when Islamist rebel forces overthrew Assad-- whose regime Moscow had
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Russia's lower-house State Duma voted Thursday to strip legislator Yury Napso of his seat after he stopped working to participate in parliamentary sessions for two years while still gathering his main salary.Napso, a member of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and a State Duma deputy given that 2007, has been on authorized leave since April 2023,
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