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Russian tennis star called ‘traitor’ after joining Team Australia
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Daria Kasatkina, who spent years as Russia’s top-ranked women’s tennis player, has announced that she’s changing her sporting nationality. The 27-year-old will now represent Australia — a country she began calling home after publicly opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine and coming out as gay. She...
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How NATO ships monitor Putin’s ‘shadow fleet’ in the Baltic Sea
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The Baltic Sea handles around 15 percent of global shipping traffic — approximately 2,500 vessels daily, according to researcher Julian Pawlak. A rising number of these ships belong to Russia’s “shadow fleet,” a group of hundreds of aging, poorly regulated oil tankers that Moscow uses to bypass...
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The artist behind Zelensky’s burning Kremlin painting
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A painting by Georgian artist Sandro Antadze depicting the Moscow Kremlin in flames drew global attention after Time Magazine published a photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posing in front of it in his bedroom. After tracking down the man behind the painting, Novaya Gazeta Europe...
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Karabakh refugees protest in Yerevan as Armenia cuts back aid
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Story by Rima Grigoryan for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart
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Two women killed in Russian missile strike remembered for their devotion to community
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On April 2, Russia launched a missile at Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown, killing four people. “Only sufficient pressure on Moscow can stop this,” Zelensky said, calling the strike a deliberate act of terror. “That pressure depends on our partners — on America, on...
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Eight injured as 15 Russian drones hit Ukraine’s Kharkiv — Meduza
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Fifteen Russian drones struck the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, injuring at least eight people, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported on Wednesday. He said the wounded included children.
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Russian authorities raid home of exiled Navalny ally Leonid Volkov’s father — Meduza
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Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers raided the home of Mikhail Volkov, the father of exiled opposition figure and top Navalny associate Leonid Volkov, on Thursday morning.
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Top Kremlin negotiator in Washington for talks with Trump envoy — The Washington Post — Meduza
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Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund who has played a key role in Moscow’s talks with the Trump administration, has traveled to Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, The Washington Post reported.
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Lead Russian negotiator to visit Washington this week for talks with Trump envoy — CNN — Meduza
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Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund who has played a key role in Moscow’s talks with the Trump administration is expected to visit Washington “this week” for a meeting with President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, CNN reported, citing...
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White House: Russia spared from tariffs due to lack of trade
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U.S. President Donald Trump has opted not to impose new tariffs on Russian goods, citing the fact that existing American sanctions have already eliminated any “meaningful trade” with Russia, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios.
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Without explanation, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg has canceled a performance of I Killed the Tsar scheduled for June 5. The play is a post-documentary drama about the execution of Russia’s last emperor, Nicholas II, and his family in 1918. The performance was part of a tour by the...
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Trump reportedly believes Putin is stalling on Ukraine ceasefire
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U.S. President Donald Trump believes that the Russian authorities are deliberately “slow-rolling comprehensive ceasefire talks,” according to Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who cited a source familiar with the talks.
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After months of resisting calls to step down, Marina Degtyareva resigned on Wednesday from her post as the head of the Kursk region’s Korenevsky district. She faced intense criticism for her district’s failure to organize timely evacuations ahead of Ukraine’s surprise incursion in August 2024....
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Russian President Vladimir Putin views U.S. President Donald Trump’s current efforts to reach a ceasefire as the best chance to end the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources in Moscow familiar with the situation.
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Moscow vows to seek extradition of exiled Navalny associates charged in absentia
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The Russian Interior Ministry issued a press release on Tuesday stating that it continues to provide “operational support in criminal cases against individuals accused of terrorism- and extremism-related offenses.”
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A Russian military court has sentenced Colonel Yevgeny Malyshko and Senior Sergeant Roman Timonin to 20 and 18 years in prison, respectively, on charges of murder, torture, and desecration of the bodies of seven fellow servicemen. Journalists at Mediazona reported the verdicts on April 2, though...
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