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Hunter Biden falsely claims US intelligence found laptop controversy was ‘Russian disinformation’
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President Biden has also said that the information on the laptop, details of which have been widely reported on – including Hunter allegedly introducing foreign oil executives to his father – was Russian disinformati...
Russian forces are massing on Ukraine’s border. Bluff or not, Putin is playing with fire
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London For an army given to masking its moves, surely the worst way to disguise a potential imminent invasion of a country is by overtly preparing for it. This is the paradox around Russia's visible buildup in its we...
Russian cosmonauts, NASA astronaut launch to the space station
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The International Space Station is the place to be in April. Multiple arrivals and departures this month make the floating laboratory seem more like a hotel. Russian space agency Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy ...
Hunting the hunters: How Russian hackers targeted US cyber first responders in SolarWinds breach
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Washington After infiltrating US government computer networks early last year as part of the SolarWinds data breach, Russian hackers then turned their attention to the very people whose job was to track them down. O...
Italy expels two Russian officials over espionage case
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Rome Italy is expelling two Russian officials in connection with an espionage case, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday on his Facebook page. The expulsions followed the arrest Tuesday of an Italian...
NATO scrambles jets 10 times to track Russian military planes across Europe
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NATO scrambled fighter jets 10 times Monday to track and intercept an unusually "rare peak" of Russian bombers and fighters flying over the North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea, according to a NATO official. "NATO a...
Russian socialite TV host under fire for interview with serial rapist
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Moscow A Russian socialite and TV personality is under fire for interviewing a convicted rapist following his release from prison. Ksenia Sobchak interviewed 70-year-old Viktor Mokhov who was sentenced in 2005 to 17...
Biden says Putin ‘will pay a price’ for Russian efforts to undermine the 2020 US election
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Washington President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin "will pay a price" for his efforts to undermine the 2020 US election following a landmark American intelligence assessment which found that the Russian government me...
Russian hockey player Timur Faizutdinov, 19, dies after being hit by puck
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A 19-year-old Russian hockey player has died after being hit in the head by a puck, his club announced in a statement on Tuesday. Timur Faizutdinov, a defenseman for Dynamo St. Petersburg's junior team, passed away ...
200 opposition activists detained at democratic forum in Moscow. Russian authorities says they were breaking Covid-19 protocol
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Moscow Around 200 opposition activists were detained in Moscow on Saturday, according to a statement from Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs. The detentions are the latest in a series of crackdowns sustained by me...
Biden administration sanctions senior Russian officials over Navalny poisoning and imprisonment
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The Biden administration has slapped sanctions on seven Russian officials in response to the poisoning and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. It was among a series of steps the new administration ann...
NHL star taking leave of absence after Russian media report left him ‘shaken and concerned’
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New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin is taking a leave of absence from the NHL team, the Rangers announced Monday. The Russian star is "shaken and concerned" following "unfounded allegations" made against him, a...
How Russian vaccine Sputnik V spread through Latin America
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Russia is becoming a major provider of Covid-19 vaccines to Latin America, a move that could have long-standing consequences in shaping the post-pandemic world and further dent US prestige in the region. While Mosco...
Russian protesters rally in support of opposition leader Alexey Navalny
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Moscow Demonstrations in support of detained Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny kicked off on Sunday in Russia's far east, as protesters turned out for a second successive weekend in defiance of authorities. Na...
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes an icy dip to mark Epiphany
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has braved ice-cold temperatures for an Epiphany Dip in a pool outside of Moscow, according to a video and photos posted by the Kremlin press pool on Tuesday. In the footage, the 68-...
Russian woman who swam under Siberia’s ice may have broken the world record
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Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in water estimated to...