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War in Ukraine
5/21/2023 9:51:16 AM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Sunday that Russia has taken control of the city of Bakhmut after a bloody eight-month battle by Moscow's Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, that has left it in ruins.
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Region
5/19/2023 5:19:43 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a letter to the 32nd Arab League Summit in Jeddah that Moscow "intends to continue actively supporting efforts to resolve all the problems the Arab world faces through peaceful means, including the crises in Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Syria."
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International
5/18/2023 3:25:41 PM
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday said he had agreed to a Russian proposal to hold talks in Moscow next week with the president of its historic rival Azerbaijan.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/18/2023 10:42:24 AM
China's special envoy Li Hui told Ukraine 'there is no panacea to resolve the crisis' as he repeated calls for Kyiv and Moscow to engage in talks to end the war, Beijing said on Thursday.
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International
5/17/2023 10:51:55 PM
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are set to meet in Moscow on Friday for talks on resolving a decades-long territorial dispute, Russia said.
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International
5/17/2023 1:51:23 PM
Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Wednesday that Russia had frozen in late April the bank accounts of its embassy in Moscow and consulate in Saint Petersburg.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/16/2023 12:46:24 PM
A year after kicking Russia out of the Council of Europe (CoE), the leaders of the 46-nation pan-continental rights body gather Tuesday in Iceland to show a united face against Moscow.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/13/2023 6:29:53 PM
Russia said Saturday that its forces were still pushing inside the frontline town of Bakhmut and had wrested control of an area in the eastern Ukrainian city.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/12/2023 3:08:09 PM
The Kremlin on Friday denied it was meddling in Turkey's presidential election campaign, after Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival accused Moscow of spreading "deep fakes" targeting him.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/10/2023 9:42:31 PM
A senior Ukrainian military official said Wednesday that Russian forces had dropped back from some areas near Bakhmut after limited counter attacks by Kyiv's forces in the longest-running battle of Moscow's invasion.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/9/2023 2:31:35 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia's "show of force" in Moscow on Tuesday would not intimidate the European Union, which he said should reform to become a larger "geopolitical" bloc.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/9/2023 10:59:23 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told his country's Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square that “a real war” has been unleashed against Russia by the West's “untamed ambitions,” shortly after the Kremlin's forces rained cruise missiles on Ukrainian targets.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/9/2023 10:37:51 AM
Russia unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, hours before the start of Moscow's annual commemorations celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, which this year is taking place amid tight security measures.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/7/2023 8:10:54 PM
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog expressed growing anxiety about the safety of a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant near the front lines of fighting in Ukraine after the Moscow-installed governor of the area ordered the evacuation of the city where most plant staff live.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/7/2023 1:10:26 PM
Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said Sunday he had received "a promise" of more ammunition from the Russian army, after he threatened to pull his frontline Wagner troops out of Bakhmut.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/6/2023 8:44:26 PM
Russia said Saturday its forces had downed a Ukrainian missile over the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, amid an expected offensive by Kyiv.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/6/2023 2:15:06 PM
Ukraine's air force claimed Saturday to have downed a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv using newly acquired American Patriot defense systems, the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow's most modern missiles.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
5/5/2023 1:54:16 PM
The commuter trains that take wearied workers out of Moscow every day can be difficult — a long and slow trip in close quarters with strangers, some of them drinking alcohol or sprawled sleeping across the seats.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/4/2023 2:21:32 PM
Kyiv and Moscow reported drone attacks Thursday including two that sparked fires in Russian oil refineries, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited The Hague to lobby for more support.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/4/2023 11:27:46 AM
Russia fired up to 24 attack drones against Ukraine overnight, 18 of which were shot down, Ukraine's air force said on Thursday, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of a drone attack on the Kremlin.
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