A Russian ballistic missile strike eliminated a minimum of four individuals and injured 17 others in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's home town of Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday, authorities said.The strike followed an overnight Tuesday drone barrage on the areas of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, which together eliminated one and hurt at least 7 others,

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The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Karina Rotenberg, the wife of Russian billionaire and close Putin associate Boris Rotenberg.

Karina Yurievna Rotenberg was removed from the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Leaked documents indicate that Karina

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President Vladimir Putinsigned a decree Wednesday allowing the Armenian investment fund Balchug Capital to buy shares in nine publicly traded companies owned by Goldman Sachs’ Russian subsidiary.

In January, the Kremlin leaderauthorized Balchug Capital to acquire Goldman Sachs’ Russian unit, nearly three years after the Wall Street firm announced i

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Russian officials have not received any applications from foreign businesses seeking to return to the country, a senior Russian Finance Ministry officialsaid Wednesday.

“We haven’t received any specific applications on this issue yet,” Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov told the business news outlet RBC, adding that many foreign companies remai

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Russia has launched the spring conscription of 160,000 servicemen, marking an increase from previous drafts amid its war on Ukraine and ongoing peace talks with Washington.

The Kremlin and the Defense Ministry both insist that Russian conscripts will not be deployed to combat and that the call-up is unrelated to the conflict in Ukraine.

However, as

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The Kremlin said Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin has no plans to travel to Saudi Arabia, where U.S. President Donald Trump will be visiting in the coming weeks, and dismissed speculation the two leaders would meet there.

Trump and Putin have held at least two phone calls since February but have not met in person, while top officials from

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