GYUMRI, Armenia — When Russia first set up a military base on the dusty hills overlooking what is now Armenia’s second-largest city, it marked the edge of the Tsarist empire.
Then, as now, the…
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‘Everyone just looks the other way’ How Moscow hijacked tens of thousands of local government social media pages to fill users’ feeds with ‘garbage news’
Russian state agencies have long used social media to push pro-Kremlin messages, but over the past three years, this practice has escalated to a new level. Nearly 200,000 accounts — not just for government offices but also for schools,…
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EU Pushes For ‘Major War With Russia’ – CDM
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Europe is preparing for a ‘major war with Russia’,…
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Sinopec unit has ‘decreased’ Russian crude purchases
HONG KONG — Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, one of the largest crude oil buyers in China, revealed on Thursday that it has reduced its purchases from Russia during the first quarter after more than doubling its procurement in 2024.
Du Jun, the…
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Trump Offers to Take Control of Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants in Ceasefire Deal
President Donald Trump proposed that the U.S. assume control of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants to safeguard the country’s energy infrastructure as part of a ceasefire plan during a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on…
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Huge Blast Rocks Engels Airbase as Ukraine Launches Major Drone Assault
Ukrainian drone strikes sparked a fire at a military airfield and wounded at least two people in Russia’s southern Saratov region, local authorities said Thursday.
“Due to a fire at the [Engels]…
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Russian Strikes Kill 2 in Eastern Ukraine Amid Large-Scale Drone Attack
Russian bombardments of eastern Ukraine killed two people overnight, local authorities said Thursday, as Moscow launched a large-scale drone attack that wounded 10 and sparked fires hundreds of…
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Ukraine reportedly targets airbase in Russia’s Saratov region in area’s ‘most massive’ drone attack to date — Meduza
The Russian cities of Saratov and Engels came under their “most massive” drone attack so far on Wednesday night, according to Saratov Governor Roman Busargin.
Busargin said that Ukrainian drones shattered windows at a hospital in Engels, as…
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Europe Delays Tariffs on U.S. Whiskey to Make Time to Negotiate
Officials from the European Union said on Thursday that they would delay their retaliation against President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs — including 50 percent levies on American whiskey and other goods — until the middle of next…
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US Is Retreating From Push to Enforce Russia Sanctions, European Officials Say
European officials say the Trump administration has pared back its engagement with efforts to enforce sanctions on Russia as the US pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine.
The US has been largely absent from several working groups set up by…
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