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As the US refuses to halt the march of its NATO military bloc, in Eastern Europe, Moscow could leverage its ties with friendly Latin American states to ruffle Washington’s feathers. But would such a course of action be worth it? Cuba and Venezuela suddenly made the headlines alongside Ukraine and the …

An American citizen has been detained in Moscow on suspicion of sexually assaulting his two sons after a complaint filed by the mother of the child, multiple Russian news outlets have reported. According to Moscow daily RBK, American David Thomas Barnes, aged 64, was arrested for allegedly raping his two underaged …

America’s CIA has been overseeing a covert training program for members of Ukraine’s special forces in preparation for a potential conflict, former US intelligence and national security officials have reportedly claimed. The mission has supposedly been underway since the 2014 re-absorption of Crimea and is based at an undisclosed facility …

Russians are fearful about the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements and new restrictions on those who haven’t had a jab – but they’re less concerned about the prospect of being infected themselves. That’s according to CROS, which published its National Anxiety Index on Wednesday, revealing the biggest …

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The eye-watering sum invested by Russians into assorted crypto tokens was revealed on Monday by Anatoliy Aksakov, the head of the State Duma’s committee on financial markets. “According to certain estimates, some 5 trillion rubles [$67.3 billion] have been invested by Russians,” the lawmaker said during parliamentary hearings. The cryptocurrency …

The survey, in which 1,600 people were questioned, was published on Tuesday by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, and uncovered people’s attitudes towards the nearby country and its citizens. More than half of respondents (52%) answered that they view the Ukrainian people as brothers, with this opinion being more …

The study, conducted by the state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Center (WCIOM), also discovered that cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, is the most beloved man of the Soviet era for modern Russian citizens. Of the 1,600 people surveyed, 20% named Gorbachev as the most hated person of …

However, rising prices and increasingly insecure supply chains are posing a risk to people in Russia and around the world. In a recent interview, Svein Tore Holsether, the chief executive of one of the largest global fertilizer producers, Yara International, warned that rising gas prices could create a worldwide food …

However, more than thirty years on and it is clear that Russians are in no hurry to emulate the liberal systems of countries like the US. One poll, released last month, revealed that nearly half of Russians say they don’t hold democratic values. Many Western pundits would quickly blame this …