U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin, just two days before U.S. President Donald Trump’s deadline for the Kremlin to end the war…
Category: 1. Russia
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Trump Claims ‘Great Progress Made’ During Putin-Witkoff Meeting in Moscow
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday as Washington weighed new sanctions, though officials from both countries, including U.S. President Donald…
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Jailed mother of Chechen opposition activists gets another nearly four-year sentence — Meduza
A court in Chechnya has sentenced Zarema Musaeva, the mother of two prominent opposition activists, to three years and 11 months in a penal colony for allegedly disrupting prison operations. The Shalinsk city court found her guilty…
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The Indian Foreign Ministry considers the new US tariffs to be “unjustified and unreasonable”
India considers the additional 25% tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on Indian goods to be “unjustified and unreasonable.” This was stated by Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.
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Trump raises U.S. tariffs on India to 50 percent to address ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ from Russia — Meduza
President Donald Trump followed through on his threats on Wednesday, August 6, signing an executive order that imposes an additional 25 percent tariff on goods from India. The new levy brings the total U.S. tariff rate to 50 percent. The…
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Ukrainian Invasion of Kursk Fails Strategically, Leaves 331 Civilians Dead
One Year After Ukrainian Offensive, Russia Mourns and Reclaims Kursk Region
One year after Ukraine launched a bold incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, occupying dozens of villages and the city of Sudzha, the outcome has…
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For 25 years, a Moscow State University institute researched teleportation. Then the media took notice — and its website vanished. — Meduza
An obscure group studying teleportation and time travel operated for decades out of Moscow State University (MSU) — until a media report prompted its sudden disappearance from the web.
For more than 25 years, Russia’s prestigious Moscow…
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Russia has abandoned its intermediate-range missile moratorium — just as Putin says Oreshnik production is ramping up — Meduza
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Russia has dropped its ban on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles
On Monday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced that the country was formally abandoning its moratorium on deploying ground-based intermediate- and shorter-range…
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‘It’s not just theft — it’s robbery’ How a Russian zoo owner in occupied Crimea uses the war as an pretext to take rare animals from Ukrainian territory
Oleg Zubkov is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) businessman who runs multiple zoos in Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula. He claims that in the last year alone, he’s removed around 100 animals from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory,…
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Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Indian Goods Over Russian Oil Purchases
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods in response to New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil, a key revenue source for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
The new tariff, set to take…
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