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President Vladimir Putin this week signed legislation allowing Russia’s reservists to be sent to “special training” to protect critical infrastructure.
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Hungary’s largest oil and gas company MOL said Friday it could source most of its crude from outside Russia if flows through the Druzhba pipeline were disrupted, in what was described as a shift from the previous stance that Russian…
In the Republic of Dagestan, a helicopter carrying tourists crashed near one of the region’s resort areas, killing four people, according to preliminary data from the Ministry of Health cited by TASS. The regional branch of…
Four people were killed and three others injured when a private helicopter crashed in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, authorities said Friday.
The helicopter was flying from one town in…
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