Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin participated in the meeting of the Volga-Yangtze Interregional Cooperation Council, held in Kazan under the joint chairmanship of Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy…
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Priced out Chinese travel to Russia is booming. So why is the tourism industry complaining? — Meduza
Chinese tourism to Russia is booming — believe it or not. In 2024, four times as many Chinese nationals visited Russia through tour operators as in the previous year. Official data show that 106,700 Chinese travelers arrived in the first…
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Trump says confident of Russian Federation victory after talking to Putin
US President Donald Trump has told European leaders after a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin that he is confident of Russia’s victory in the Ukrainian conflict. About it writes the Bloomberg…
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Putin ‘jokes’ with Russian officials about annexing Ukraine’s Sumy region — Meduza
A local official in Russia’s Kursk region told Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that annexing Ukraine’s Sumy region is necessary for national security. “Sumy should be ours,” said Pavel Zolotaryov, head of the Glushkovsky District, at a…
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70% of Italian Firms Stayed in Russia Following Ukraine Invasion, Trade Official Says
About 70% of Italian companies operating in Russia did not leave the country following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the president of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce told the RBC news website on Wednesday.
Many Italian firms…
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Ukraine is waging an active anti-Hungarian campaign
Hungarian Foreign and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Péter Szijjártó has said that Ukraine is conducting an active anti-Hungarian campaign by employing Ukrainian spies in the central European state.

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Interior Ministry Issues Arrest Warrant for Indigenous Activist Sargylana Kondakova
Russian law enforcement authorities issued an arrest warrant for Sargylana Kondakova, a Yukaghir activist and co-founder of the exiled anti-war group Free Yakutia Foundation, media reported Wednesday.
Kondakova, who currently lives in…
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Popular St. Petersburg Bookstore Fined $10K for ‘LGBT Propaganda’
A judge in St. Petersburg ordered the century-old bookstore Podpisniye Izdaniya to pay a fine of 800,000 rubles ($10,000) after it was found to promote “LGBT propaganda,” local media reported Wednesday.
Podpisniye Izdaniya was
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Russian Federation has increased the range of an autonomous kamikaze drone to 100 kilometres
Russia has increased the range of a fully autonomous kamikaze drone to 100 kilometres, which has “machine vision” that allows it to independently attack a target, Ukrainian publication Defence Express (DE)…
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Lavrov Blames Arms Delays to Armenia on Russia’s Confrontation With West
Russia has struggled to supply weapons to Armenia due to the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday, while also acknowledging growing tensions between Moscow and…
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