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Russia calls U.S. military action in Venezuela ‘armed aggression,’ as Kyiv rejects Maduro’s legitimacy

Following overnight U.S. strikes on Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, President Donald Trump said on January 3 that American ...
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Ukraine’s spy chief Kyrylo Budanov accepts new position as Zelensky’s chief of staff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered the post of head of the President’s Office to military intelligence chief ...
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New investigation reveals Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s ‘secret common-law wife’ of 50 years

Under Orthodox Church canon law, a patriarch cannot be married and must be celibate. But according to a new Proekt ...
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Russia’s conscription system will become year-round starting January 1. Here’s what that means for Moscow’s call-up capacity.

Though Russia’s conscription system is separate from its wartime mobilization campaign, completing mandatory military service ...
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Russian foreign minister says without evidence that Ukrainian drones attacked Putin’s Valdai residence

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said without evidence on Monday that Ukrainian drones had carried out an attack ...
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Documentary exposé leads to 13-year sentence for Moscow teacher in child sexual abuse case

A Moscow court has sentenced Ekaterina Kirsanova, a 45-year-old former vocal instructor, to 13 years in prison for violent ...
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Moscow court sentences Meduza co-founder and publisher Galina Timchenko to five years in prison in absentia

A Moscow court has sentenced Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of Meduza, to five years in prison in absentia on charges ...
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Blind Russians lose access to accessibility app Be My Eyes as Internet restrictions tighten

December, the app Be My Eyes — designed to assist blind and visually-impaired people — has been barely functional in much ...
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Russian occupation forces reopened the Mariupol theater Moscow bombed in 2022. Here’s what it looks like today.

On 8, Russian occupation authorities held a reopening ceremony for the Mariupol Drama Theater, a landmark cultural institution in the occupied Ukrainian city that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike ...