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Fact Check: Crimea fire and blast videos from 2023-24 falsely described as Moscow in June 2025
A video compilation of an explosion in 2023 and a fire in 2024, both in the Crimean peninsula, has been falsely described ...
Why is Stalin back in the Moscow metro?
A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago. It is the first such statue to be erected ...
What happened to Moscow? A dispatch from behind the sanctions.
Three years after the West wielded historic punitive measures, the Russian capital moves to a different rhythm — altered, ...
From a Russian prison, US schoolteacher tells lawyers he was grabbed by Moscow's soldiers
A 73-year-old American jailed by Russia as a mercenary for Ukraine protested his innocence when his U.S.-based legal team and ...
Europe heaps harsh sanctions on Russia, saying ‘strength is the only language’ Moscow understands
The European Union announced a new package of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, saying that Moscow’s daily deadly attacks ...
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Some Russians push back against a church building spree in Moscow
The increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has built hundreds of new churches over the past decade. But some people in ...
A funeral for a tattoo artist-turned-soldier shows why Ukraine won’t capitulate to Moscow
Roma “skated, dyed his hair, made tattoos, played loud music and, if necessary, he would fight for the freedom to do so,” ...
Four killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Moscow continues to retaliate for Kyiv's drone strike
Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv, killing four and injuring dozens. President Zelenskyy condemned the ...
West Ham $10M transfer payment to CSKA Moscow held up by UK sanctions
Millions of dollars due to soccer club CSKA Moscow from West Ham will stay unpaid while British financial sanctions are ...
Russia Accuses UK of Sabotage Plans With US In 'NATO Lake'
The Baltic Sea has been dubbed the "NATO Lake" following the accession to the alliance of Sweden and Finland. Countries ...