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Russian pop superstar Alla Pugacheva on Sunday denounced the Ukraine conflict and the “death of our boys for illusory goals” amid severe repression of any anti-Kremlin criticism. This is the first tim
Sep. 19, 2022
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Russia has secretly spent at least £260 million ($US 300 million) since 2014 to try and influence politicians and other executives in more than two dozen countries, according to a diplomatic cable mad
Sep. 16, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian servicemen, who were conscripted in the spring to the 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Taman Division, are being transferred from the Moscow Region to the Belgorod region “to protect
Sep. 16, 2022
War in Ukraine
The UN Secretary-General’s press conference on Sep. 14 left a strong impression that António Guterres’s priorities do not coincide with major public concerns of these days. The Secretary-General spoke
Sep. 15, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian propaganda spent the last few years building up an image of the Russian army as the “second in the world” that “will take Ukraine in three days.” There was a new deluge of propaganda in just a
Sep. 14, 2022
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Russia has covertly sent at least $300 million to foreign political parties and candidates in more than two dozen countries since 2014 in bids to gain influence, a declassified US intelligence assessm
Sep. 14, 2022
War in Ukraine
“Troubling”, “a betrayal”, “depressing” — Moscow’s humiliating setbacks in eastern Ukraine over the weekend sent Russian hawks into a frenzy. To put an end to the avalanche of scathing critiques, the
Sep. 14, 2022
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In the picture, Anastasaia and Elizaveta Grigoryeva’s father is faintly smiling, smartly dressed from head to toe in military uniform and holding a puppy to the camera. It’s an image of their father n
Sep. 12, 2022
War in Ukraine
Anton Drobovych, the head of Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory and now a soldier of the 112th Brigade of Territorial Defense of Kyiv, has given an interview to Ukrainska Pravda in which he shares
Sep. 11, 2022
War in Ukraine
The finance ministers of the G7 countries agreed to move forward on the issue of introducing a limit on the price of Russian oil. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also supports raisi
Sep. 9, 2022
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The Council of the Smolninskoye municipal formation in St. Petersburg has adopted a desicion to call on deputies of the State Duma, Russia’s highest legislative body, to bring treason charges against
Sep. 8, 2022
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In the first 6 months of 2022, 419,000 people emigrated from Russia, RBC news agency reports, citing data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). This is twice as much as in the same peri
Sep. 8, 2022
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Vladimir Putin says that by starting a full-scale war in Ukraine, Russia has lost nothing. On the contrary, Moscow has only strengthened its own sovereignty. At the plenary session of the Eastern Econ
Sep. 8, 2022
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it was “impossible” to isolate Moscow and vowed to cut gas and oil deliveries to countries imposing a price cap on supplies. Speaking Wednesday at an ec
Sep. 7, 2022
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Imposing an EU-wide travel ban on Russia would turn the tables by stimulating an unprecedented exodus of Russian migrants with bruised egos to Central Asia. A twist of fortune Ever since the Soviet U
Sep. 7, 2022
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As warfare has progressively become ever-more technologically complex, a sanctioned Russia cannot get its hands on the lifeblood of modernity: microchips. The West’s crushing sanctions on Russia are m
Sep. 7, 2022
Russian state-controlled media has been saying very little about the massive attack, but satellite images of the aftermath tell a story of sheer devastation.
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