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Russian university shooter published sick post detailing his planned crime before murdering six people in brutal Perm gun attack

On Monday morning, Bekmansurov entered Perm State University, the leading educational institution in the city just over 1,000km east of Moscow. Accordi...

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Russia’s Communists declare they won’t recognize result of online election in Moscow amid widespread claims of vote falsification

From September 17-19, Russian citizens went to the polls to choose from 14 parties and other independent candidates vying for 450 seats in the country’...

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Speaker of Russian parliament hails elections as ‘transparent’ despite Communists’ complaints, says support for Putin behind win

As the final votes were counted on Monday, the speaker of the country's parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said that past weeks had seen “probably one of ...

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A new red wave? Russian elections show massive gains for country's Communists as party leader celebrates best result since 1990s

Over three days of voting, Russia went to the polls to choose from 14 groupings and other independent candidates vying for 450 seats in the country’s p...

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Comrades in arms? West is cheering on Russia's Communists, but heirs of Bolsheviks even more skeptical of US, EU & NATO than Putin

According to the exit polls and those votes counted so far, the Communist Party (KPRF) is set to be the biggest winner from the drop in support for Uni...

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More than 20 foreign NGOs tried to interfere in Russia's elections, should now be banned from country, top Moscow lawmakers allege

In a statement issued shortly after polls closed early on Monday morning, Vasily Piskarev, the head of a State Duma commission investigating foreign in...

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Putin's party declares victory in Russian elections, insists it will retain two-thirds majority after polls show opposition gains

With 80% of the vote having been counted on Monday morning, Andrey Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party, said that his ...

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Shooting reported at Russian university, harrowing footage shows students jumping out of windows to escape gunman (VIDEOS)

The incident was reported at Perm State University, one of the oldest universities in the Urals. At least four people have been injured, media reported...

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Russia's Communist Party predicted to slash government's majority in first exit poll after voting in parliamentary election ends

As the final ballots were recorded in Kaliningrad, the country's westernmost region, a federal exit poll conducted by  research agency INSOMAR found su...

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Polls close in Russia's parliamentary election after last ballots cast in westernmost Kaliningrad region

The last polling stations closed at 20:00 local time (6pm GMT) in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's westernmost enclave territory on the Baltic Sea.A to...

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Diving gear, medieval armor & a 'meddling' Donald Trump: Some Russians choose unusual dress for parliamentary election (VIDEOS)

According to the Central Election Commission, over 40% of the population had already cast their ballots, by Sunday afternoon, in the country's parliame...

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Russia claims hostile EU report listing ‘factually wrong’ grievances & demanding more sanctions is attempt at election meddling

On Thursday, the bloc's lawmakers approved a document outlining the EU’s relationship with Russia. It was prepared by former Lithuanian PM Andrius Kubi...

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Make elections attractive again: Popular Russian Instagram influencer launches VOTING PAGEANT as country heads to polls (PHOTOS)

Blogger Alina Morozova came up with the election beauty pageant on Friday. Suggesting that the women of her region were “the most beautiful,” as well a...

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Team Navalny says Google demanded it delete lists of Kremlin-challenging candidates after Russian media watchdog request

Navalny’s team posted on its Telegram account what it said was a notice from the US-based tech giant, informing them about a complaint from the Russian...

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Russian man suspected of murdering family of 3 and setting off explosion at police station is found in car with arsenal of weapons

According to REN TV, the car of 54-year-old Viktor Mirsky was stuffed with arms. Mirsky had been detained earlier that day after law enforcement office...

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De-dollarization: Global status of greenback shrinking as countries look to trade in alternative currencies, says Bank of Russia

Speaking to business daily RBK, Elvira Nabiullina noted that international business is gradually switching to other currencies, while Russia has change...

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RT lodges complaint with Russian media watchdog after Facebook takes down Instagram page of its Redfish digital content project

The decision made by the California-based company, which owns Instagram, to take down the account of Redfish violates Russian law, barring Russian citi...

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America’s evacuation of troops from Afghanistan looked more like a ‘downright escape’ than a ‘hasty withdrawal,’ Putin says

Putin was speaking at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a group of eight countries, including China and India.“The urgent task ...

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Dolphinarium in Russia's Far East celebrates as baby Beluga whale is born in domestic facility for first time in history (VIDEO)

Jessica, a beluga whale, became a mother for the first time in her life. Her strong and active baby was born on August 1, a press release revealed. "Wh...

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Russian elections: Communists set sights on major gains, but Western pundits are already dusting off their ‘rigged vote’ rhetoric

Russia's constitution is sometimes described as "super-presidential." It concentrates enormous powers in the hands of the head of state, including the ...

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Victoria Nuland, key American figure in Ukraine's bloody 2014 ‘Maidan,’ wants meeting with Moscow despite visa ban – Kommersant

Victoria Nuland, who serves as US President Joe Biden's Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, is said to have opened up bilateral channels wi...

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Apple & Google delete Navalny’s ‘Smart Voting’ app after top Russian officials accuse US tech giants of ‘election interference’

The opposition figure's team confirmed on Friday that the 'Smart Voting' platform had been taken down from both Apple's AppStore and Google Play servic...

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Russia to slow down payments to cryptocurrency exchanges as Moscow seeks to stop citizens from ‘impulse purchases’ of bitcoin

Speaking to an international banking forum, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia Sergey Shvetsov noted that countries around the world are discu...

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WHO says ‘no change’ in Sputnik V approval process after official claims it was ‘suspended’

“There is no new development of the situation. We are still awaiting additional data from the applicant and manufacturers,” a WHO spokesperson told the...

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WATCH: Hundreds of thousands of Russian & Belarusian troops perform huge war games at joint Zapad 2021 quadrennial exercises

Zapad – which means ‘West’ in Russian – is hosted as a joint exercise between the two nations every four years. This year, over 800 vehicles and about ...

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WHO pauses approval process for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine after factory found in breach of ‘good manufacturing practices’

Answering a journalist’s question during a press briefing, the assistant director of the Pan American Health Organization, Jarbas Barbosa, said the WHO...

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Head of Navalny-linked doctors’ ‘union’ denounces Russian opposition figure’s movement, his allies blame pressure from authorities

Writing on Facebook, Anastasia Vasilyeva accused the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of neglecting her so-called union in its hour of need. The FBK wa...

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With Minsk hoping to build ties with Harare, Belarus’ Lukashenko praises Zimbabwe as ‘example’ of political stability & progress

Lukashenko's statement comes less than a month after Belarus revealed it would open its embassy in Zimbabwe, its first for the year. In the last year, ...

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India may buy Russian S-500 anti-space-weapon defense system in world-first arms deal, despite risk of US sanctions, Moscow claims

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told journalists on Thursday that New Delhi could “potentially” become the first foreign capital to place an order f...

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Your guide to Russian political parties ahead of the 2021 Parliamentary Election: United Russia

United Russia was founded in 2001 following a merger of the two of the country's most-popular political parties as a way to create a strong faction to ...

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YES-men! Western politicians, journalists & thought leaders queue up to launder image of Ukrainian oligarch Pinchuk at Kiev forum

Witness, for example, this year’s meeting of the Yalta European Strategies group (or YES, get it?). The forum was established as an annual event by Vic...

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Ex-Soviet states set to beef up joint military missions on Afghan border to head off risk of instability after US Kabul withdrawal

In a meeting held in Dushanbe, the capital of neighboring Tajikistan, on Thursday, members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) backed...

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Back to the USSR? Team Navalny wants Russians to vote for the once-hated Communists instead of liberal pro-Western candidates

Historically, Russian liberals have come in two types. The first fears the consequences of system collapse and regards the government’s enemies as more...

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Kremlin Covid outbreak: Dozens of Russian government staff have tested positive for virus, Putin tells CSTO summit by video-link

Speaking via video-link on Thursday morning, Putin told fellow world leaders why he was unable to join a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Orga...

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Three brothers 2021: Special Forces of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Pakistan conduct joint military drills for first time ever (VIDEO)

The soldiers were filmed shooting small arms and grenade launchers in Azerbaijan. According to Baku’s Ministry of Defense, the drills will boost cooper...

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Russia's parliament threatens to increase fines for American tech giants after Google fails to comply with country's internet laws

According to Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the Duma Commission for Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs, the idea to stren...

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Western media claimed Sochi would be post-Olympic ghost town. Now, Russian city's mayor reveals population has doubled in a decade

Predictions of the city's decline after the investment attracted by the games so far appear to be inaccurate. On Wednesday, the mayor of the area, popu...

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WATCH: Russian Soyuz rocket launches 34 satellites into orbit as part of mission to expand internet coverage throughout globe

It is the tenth launch for the OneWeb program and the fourth from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The British company plans to send 648 satellites into space ...

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Ukraine must stop begging for money from West because countries with great history should have ‘dignity’, says Russia's Lavrov

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Lavrov used the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as an example of Kiev constantly asking foreign countries ...

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Your guide to Russian political parties ahead of the 2021 Parliamentary Election: Fair Russia — For Truth

Fair Russia — For Truth is a party initially created in 2006, although it has undergone many changes since. It was initially formed as a merger of thre...

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Russian envoys veto extension of UN's 'peacebuilding' mission in Libya at crunch Security Council vote, diplomatic sources say

French news agency AFP reported on Wednesday that Moscow's envoys had laid down Russia's veto as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, potenti...

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Russia’s elections are an all-important test for Putin’s party. But can opposition activists in the sunny south beat voter apathy?

However, not everyone in the fast-growing southern city seems to have gotten the message. “When does the election actually start?” Bogdan, a 21-year-ol...

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‘Every day SpaceX people walk past photo of my grandad’: Descendant of Sergey Korolev talks to RT about meeting Elon Musk (VIDEO)

Andrey Korolev, a prominent Moscow surgeon, told RT he came up with the idea to talk to Musk after watching the first manned test flight of the Crew Dr...

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Putin's unveiling of monument to Alexander Nevsky on NATO frontier shows how Russia believes real threat comes from West, not East

For most of us, most of the time, statues are part of the background, something we walk past without paying much attention. Of late, however, they've b...

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Russia running out of oil? Profitable reserves may last only another 20 years, Moscow says, citing improved tech as only solution

Speaking to journalists at an oil and gas conference in the Siberian city of Tyumen on Wednesday, the acting head of the Federal Agency for Mineral Res...

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Russia demands answers from US ambassador over ‘election interference,’ as Moscow says it has proof of ‘serious’ sabotage efforts

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the top diplomat claimed that the evidence was compelling, and had been presented to Ambassador John Sullivan, who ...

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Google’s Moscow office raided by bailiffs looking to collect $400k in fines... but lawyers say they must go to US to get the money

According to Telegram channel Mash, which obtained a video of the interaction, the bailiffs arrived at the office and were met by the receptionist, who...

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Is it OK to buy a fake Covid-19 vaccination certificate? Almost a third of Russians think it's perfectly fine, new survey reveals

In Russia, some employers are now demanding that their workers be vaccinated, leading to some of those opposed to inoculation looking for other methods...

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Let's see how Sputnik V works 'in real life': Putin reveals he had close contact with Covid-19 infected person 'for a whole day'

Speaking during a meeting with government members and the ruling United Russia party leadership ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, Putin ex...

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Russia unveils combat robots that can take down tanks without putting soldiers in harm's way, as part of massive Zapad war games

In footage released by the country's Ministry of Defense, two models of unmanned fighting vehicles showed off their capabilities and armaments, practic...

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