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Russia urges Azerbaijan to repair ties with Moscow amid diplomatic crisis
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday urged Azerbaijan to restore its ties with Moscow to a level befitting "strategic ...
North Korea to send as many as 30,000 troops to bolster Russia’s forces, Ukrainian officials say
North Korea is set to treble the number of its troops fighting for Russia along the front lines with Ukraine, sending an ...
Russia says Moscow now occupies all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, illegally annexed in 2022
A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region says that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it.
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and ...
Russia claims gains in Ukraine as US attention focuses on Iran war
Russian official claims full control of Ukraine's Luhansk region as Putin intensifies war efforts despite Trump's ceasefire ...
Azerbaijan detains 7 linked to a Russian media outlet as a rift between Baku and Moscow deepens
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry told local media that seven people linked to a Kremlin-funded media outlet in Baku have been ...
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Zelenskyy strips pro-Russian church leader of citizenship over Moscow ties
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has terminated the Ukrainian citizenship of Orest Berezovsky, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox ...
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Russia’s military presence in post-Assad Syria: A growing security liability undermining stability
Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...
Russia's ex-deputy defense minister handed 13-year sentence on corruption charges
A Russian court has convicted a former deputy defense minister on corruption charges and sentenced him to 13 years in prison ...
Russia's Officials Keep Contradicting Putin on War Economy
Russia has faced economic turbulence caused by sanctions imposed after Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine that are aimed ...