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27 million Soviet citizens lost their lives fighting the Nazis, Westerners comparing USSR to Hitler's Germany insult their memory

It has apparently become a yearly tradition for some bad actors to try and force us to unnecessarily debate simple historical truths about World War II...

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Amnesty International changes rules to REDESIGNATE Russia’s Navalny as ‘prisoner of conscience’

Navalny was “imprisoned for demanding a government that is free from corruption” and “the right to equal participation in public life for himself & his...

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Body of Instagram lifestyle star found by police in rural Russian woodland, as authorities question husband over her disappearance

Officers investigating the 28-year-old social media star’s disappearance revealed on Thursday that her corpse had been discovered in the woods near the...

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Lithuanian president plans to warn EU leaders about Belarusian nuclear plant by handing out copies of HBO’s Chernobyl – reports

“The president’s gesture is a simple, non-traditional way to [draw] the EU leaders’ attention to the danger posed by the Astravyets [nuclear power plan...

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EU’s response to Moscow’s pushback on sanctions shows ‘mania for impunity’ that will ‘lead to nowhere’, says Russian FM Lavrov

Foreign restrictions placed on Russian citizens and entities are “groundless and illegitimate” and “will not be left unanswered,” Lavrov said during a ...

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‘Simple and reliable as Kalashnikov assault rifle’: Putin speaks about Russia’s Covid-19 vaccines

“I know that another one of our vaccines has been prepared for registration, Sputnik Light,” Putin said, shortly before the jab was registered by the H...

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Russia ready to back waiving intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines, as Putin says now ‘not the time to maximize profits’

The proposals to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines “don’t contradict” the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which all...

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Russia authorizes ‘Sputnik Light’: Single-dose version of pioneering Covid-19 jab aims to speed up mass vaccination program

Sputnik Light is the first component of the widely used Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, its researchers explained. However, the single dose has shown 79...

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Bali of the Urals: Russian influencers flood to toxic lake near site of nuclear disaster for pics as Covid-19 halts travel abroad

Nicknamed ‘Bali of the Urals’, the Kaolin Quarry is in Kyshtym near the city of Chelyabinsk, 1500km (932 miles) east of Moscow. However, while it looks...

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German lawyers sue Belarus’ President Lukashenko over alleged crimes against humanity

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 10 Belarusians, some of whom fled to Germany because of alleged persecution at home. “Our clients expect Germany to ...

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Making a splash! Raunchy yacht photoshoot lands Ukrainian models in Turkish police custody over erotic snaps scandal

Footage of a group of scantily clad women taking pictures of each other on a slick yacht went viral after being picked up by media in the majority-Musl...

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It doesn’t matter if it isn’t true: No matter how many times it’s debunked, Western anti-Russian propaganda is immune to facts

The concept of propaganda was seen by its pioneers, New York-born Walter Lippmann and Austro-Hungarian press agent Edward Bernays, as something of an e...

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Stalin monument taken down FOUR DAYS after being erected in southern Russia, following backlash on social media (VIDEO)

The golden-colored bust was erected on April 29 in Dagestanskiye Ogni, a city of 30,000 in the multiethnic Dagestan region in Russia’s northern Caucasu...

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'Vicious' sanctions are hurting Russia, but Moscow has plan to ditch US dollar & axe dependency on West, Foreign Ministry tells RT

In April, US President Joe Biden unveiled a new package of sanctions against Russian businesses and officials, while, at the same time, effectively ban...

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Ukraine nationalists march through Odessa on 7th anniversary of post-coup massacre in which dozens were burned alive

On May 2014, 48 people were killed and more than 250 injured during clashes between members of the notorious radical Right Sector group and the opponen...

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‘No food or toilet & forced to change tampons in public:’ Models rage at Georgian Fashion Week claiming horror working conditions

The event, sponsored by German automobile giant Mercedes Benz, is scheduled to take place between May 6 and May 9, but the models are already in the Ge...

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Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan agree complete cessation of hostilities after border flare-up

The former Soviet republics have conflicting territorial claims over a water distribution point on the Isfara River. On Wednesday, a quarrel between Ky...

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First batch of Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 jab delivered to India as country expands its vaccine drive to entire adult population

An aircraft carrying the vaccines touched down in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday.“First batch of Sputnik V vaccine arrives in Hydera...

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West turns a blind eye to march honoring WW2 Nazi ‘SS’ in Kiev: Ukraine may not be a fascist state, but it has a fascism problem

For their own ends, of course. Meanwhile, with the exception of German and Israeli officials, the West pretends not to notice. Particularly Anglophone ...

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By firing ‘bullets & shells’ at breakaway eastern regions, Ukraine is undermining own calls for unity, Russian UN envoy claims

Dmitry Polyankskiy, Moscow’s deputy permanent representative at the United Nations, told journalists on Thursday that Ukraine is taking an increasingly...

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Prominent Russian lawyer detained after raid by security forces, reportedly charged with leaking from confidential ‘spying’ trial

The lawyer told reporters on Friday that his documents had been seized by officers from the FSB, Russia’s top domestic security agency, as well as repr...

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Ukrainian authorities are indulging Neo-Nazis & far-right radicals who operate with total impunity, says Russian Foreign Ministry

Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova delivered her comments on Thursday after a march in Kiev to commemorate the anniversary of SS Galicia, a military division ...

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Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan sign ceasefire agreement after violent border clashes that injured scores and killed at least 30 people

Tempers began to flare between local residents on Wednesday, when Tajikistan installed surveillance cameras near the Golovnoi water intake facility, a ...

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Jailed Navalny’s political operations branded ‘extremist’ in new watchlist issued by Russian terrorist financing investigators

Local media reported on Friday that Rosfinmonitoring, Moscow’s state agency monitoring illicit transactions, had included “the social movement of Naval...

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Ally of Russian opposition figure Navalny given 2.5 years in prison for ‘distributing porn’ after sharing Rammstein music video

Arkhangelsk is located in the north of Russia, around 1,200km away from Moscow.Andrey Borovikov, who pleaded not guilty, was found to have distributed ...

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US Embassy in Moscow to dramatically reduce staff & stop issuing most visas to Russians as mission is banned from employing locals

In a Friday press release, the embassy announced that, effective May 12, it will only offer emergency US citizen services, and "a very limited number o...

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By expelling diplomats West wants to portray Russia as ‘enemy of humanity’ Moscow’s UN envoy says, warning ‘it takes two to tango’

Taking questions from reporters on Thursday, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, said that he was ...

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Pentagon probe into fears of Russian ‘energy weapon’ attacks on soldiers in Syria reportedly finds symptoms down to food poisoning

News site Politico revealed in a report last week that Washington’s Defense Department had been investigating a number of incidents across the world wh...

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Creators of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 jab slam ‘fake news’ from Brazil after country’s regulator Anvisa refuses to approve it

A statement released on Wednesday on the vaccine's official website accused Anvisa of making a political decision instead of fairly evaluating the jab ...

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‘Longstanding and time-tested partner’: India thanks Russia after Moscow sends 22 tons of supplies to country in Covid-19 crisis

The shipment, announced by Moscow on Wednesday, arrived in New Delhi on Thursday. The decision to send aid came after a phone call between Indian Prime...

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Chart topper to poll topper? Singer from Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. enters primary to represent ruling party in upcoming election

According to United Russia, the country's ruling party, singer Julia Volkova has formally applied to take part in the primaries for a parliamentary sea...

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Moscow court upholds jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s defamation conviction for branding WWII veteran a ‘traitor’

Natalya Kurysheva, the jurist presiding over the case at the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow, rejected the challenge and upheld the previous verd...

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Crisis in American expertise: Washington has a dangerous & destructive pattern of willful ignorance on Russia in post-Soviet era

It was reported last week that Joe Biden’s government would not be hiring Rojansky, of the Kennan Institute think tank, to help form policy towards Rus...

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Russian opposition figure Navalny’s political network dissolved by aides ahead of possible ‘extremist organization’ designation

Writing on Telegram, Navalny’s aide Leonid Volkov, who is based outside Russia but serves as the coordinator of the activist’s regional branches in the...

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A nation no longer divided? How Russians are increasingly remembering, rather than erasing, the country’s bloody Civil War history

It is said that modern Russia is a conservative country, but that begs the question – what are Russians trying to conserve? The basic principle of cons...

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Ukrainian far-right nationalists stage march in center of Kiev to mark 77th anniversary of WWII Nazi military division SS Galicia

According to the TASS news agency, about 100 people from various far-right nationalist groups participated in a celebration of the military division’s ...

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It's all propaganda! Ukrainian diplomats slam Reuters news agency for reporting on costumed ball held to mark spring in Crimea

On Tuesday, the London-based news agency Reuters published a clip showing dozens of couples frolicking to classical music in a blossom-filled garden. E...

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EU Parliament mulls block on Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline & banning Russia from SWIFT system, despite leaders’ calls for dialogue

The motion, put forward by representatives of some of the assembly’s largest political groupings, says that recent rows with Moscow over the buildup of...

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Mandatory microchip implants could be introduced in Russia under new proposals to keep electronic tabs on country’s cats & dogs

The proposals, introduced by local officials in the central Russian region of Bashkortostan, close to the Kazakh border, was sent to the State Duma’s e...

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Six Russian citizens attempted to assassinate weapons dealer Emilian Gebrev & exploded four of his Bulgarian depots, Sofia says

Speaking on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the country’s chief prosecutor, Siika Mileva, revealed that there have been a number of explosions in Bulgaria...

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Ukrainian president pitches summit with Putin at Vatican as Kremlin says it's ‘wonderful’ to hear Kiev talk about peace, not war

In an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica published on Tuesday, Zelensky said that there was a need to meet to discuss the crisis in the east of...

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Bolshoi Theater cancels international tours until March 2022, blames foreign states for not accepting Russia's Covid-19 vaccine

Speaking to the press on Tuesday, the Bolshoi's General Director Vladimir Urin revealed that the prestigious ballet troop would not be going abroad for...

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Washington rejected Moscow’s offer of complete reset in Russia-US relations shortly after inauguration of Biden, FM Lavrov reveals

Speaking to journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained that Russia wants to get back on a sound footing in its relationship w...

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Liberals demanding pro-Western policies from Moscow simply ‘don’t understand Russian genetic code,’ Foreign Minister Lavrov claims

Speaking to veteran journalist Dmitry Kiselyov in an interview aired on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that critics of the Kremlin’s po...

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Our two mortal enemies are Russia & ISIS, says explosive new report on ‘existential threats’ from Georgia’s top security agency

In its annual report, presented on Monday at a meeting of Tbilisi's Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security, the authors accuse Moscow of carr...

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Dutch citizen arrested in Belarus after illegally crossing border on bicycle to ‘start a new life,’ now faces 5yr entry ban

According to Belarus’ State Border Committee, the Dutchman rode across the frontier by bicycle on April 25 and was detained in the country’s north-west...

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Overwhelming majority of Russians believe Crimea is legally part of country, including those who don’t support Putin, poll reveals

That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, which has revealed that the events of seven years ago enjoy support even from those who disappro...

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Russian ex-police officers face up to 16 years in prison over claims they fabricated false drugs charges against Meduza journalist

Lawyers for one of the defendants confirmed that authorities have asked the judge to consider sentences of  between seven and 16 years behind bars for ...

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Russian anti-monopoly agency hits Apple with $12m fine for ‘anti-competitive’ policy as Silicon Valley firm insists it will appeal

Moscow’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service announced on Tuesday that it had found the firm – one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies – h...

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US backs Minsk agreements to end bloody conflict in Donbass, contradicting Ukrainian calls for changes to terms of 2014 peace deal

On Monday, in an interview with the Financial Times, Zelensky suggested that the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014, were effectively unworkable. “I’m no...

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