The Russian team – playing under the banner of the Russian Football Union (RFU) due to ongoing WADA sanctions – delighted the home crowd at a specially-constructed venue at Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday by clinching the title by beating Japan. Goals from Artur Paporotnyi, Fedor Zemskov, Andrei Novikov, and a …
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The United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin and holds 334 of the State Duma’s 450 seats, is likely to come out on top. That said, there is still a lot to play for at the margins and the possibility of some major upsets remains. In the last parliamentary …
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Police late Friday raided the hotel where Rammstein lead vocalist and lyricist Till Lindemann has been staying. Images shared on social media show uniformed and plainclothes officers inside the hotel lobby, while others are seen speaking with Lindemann in what is thought to be his hotel room. The musician arrived …
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“It’s not a big problem. It’s just two men, who would like to continue the war, Amrullah Saleh and Ahmad Massoud,” Zabihullah Mujahid told the Russian media on Thursday. Mujahid, who has been appointed information minister in the Taliban-installed government, was referring to the so-called Panjshir resistance in the north …
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The difference is that when America or its allies do it, it’s called “promoting democracy.” Now, a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of Russia’s parliamentary elections, due to be held next month, is explicitly linked to power politics. Any criticism of that approach, however, is denounced as an attack on …
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The Russian Defense Ministry’s military transport Il-76 planes arrived at the Kabul airport on Wednesday to take citizens of Russia and other former Soviet republics home. Videos obtained by RT show people, many of them families with children, getting on board the giant Russian transport aircraft that were turned into …
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On Wednesday morning, the ministry announced that the process will be carried out by four military transport planes flying from the Ulyanovsk airfield, about 500km south of Moscow. The aircraft will be equipped with drinking water, food and blankets, and will have medical teams on board. “On August 25, on …
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“Work in this direction is underway,” Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov told news agency Interfax on Sunday, noting that the Russian aviation industry now has the capability to produce aircraft of all classes, including planes for this purpose. A ‘doomsday plane’ is designed to house the country’s top …
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“Practically, with the exception of some things that specialists should pay attention to, [Russia’s economy] has generally been restored to the pre-crisis level,” Putin stated. The head of state noted, however, that inflation in the country currently amounts to 6.5%, which exceeds the target goal for the indicator of 4%. …
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The veteran outgoing leader, who was visiting Ukraine, on Sunday, two days after talks with her Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev. Zelensky praised, what he called, Merkel’s longstanding support of his country and awarded her the Order of Liberty, the country’s highest …
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