‘The annexation is coming on the heels of referendums in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia’ The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is set to stage a ceremony in an ornate Kremlin hall to announce Russia’s takeover of around 15% of Ukraine, the biggest European annexation since World War II. Putin disclosed that the four Ukrainian regions
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Mum-of-one Anna Vinokurova, 39, has been arrested on suspicion of killing her boyfriend Evgeny, 27 after workers noticed blood coming out of the fridge (Image: Social media) Anna Vinokurova, a 39-year-old Russian woman has been arrested and detained. She is being detained on suspicion of killing and dismembering her toyboy lover after removal men discovered
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Seventeen fishermen were missing and feared dead on Monday after a Russian boat capsized during a storm and sank in the freezing waters of the Barents Sea.Officials said that two people had been rescued during a search-and-rescue operation, but that bad weather conditions had complicated efforts to find survivors. The privately-owned boat, called Onega, sank
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The Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia has disclosed that his government is not expecting anything good from the incoming administration of President-elect, Joe Biden of the United States. Moscow on Wednesday also accused the incoming U.S. administration of “Russophobia” after the president-elect promised to punish Russia for a major cyber attack. “We are definitely not
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Donald Trump received a written briefing about alleged Russian bounties offered to Afghan militants to kill American troops as early as February, The New York Times said Monday in a new report undercutting the US president’s assertion that he was not told of the threat. Trump has come under increasing pressure to explain mounting media
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Russia concludes plans to deport foreigners diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Monday, as the government postponed an investment forum over the deadly infection. “Now it’s been added to the list of, especially dangerous illnesses. That will allow us to deport foreign citizens if they are diagnosed with such an illness,”
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Iran, which admitted on Saturday that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing 176 people, must “learn lessons” from the disaster, the chairman of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee said. “If decryption of the black boxes and the work of the investigation do not prove that the Iranian army did this intentionally, and
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The Russian army announced Thursday that a ceasefire has begun in Syria’s Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in the country, in accordance with a Russ-a-Turkey agreement. From 1100 GMT “a ceasefire has been in place in the de-escalation zone of Idlib,” the Russian military’s Centre for Reconciliation in Syria said in a statement.
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