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At the end of last week, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is to visit the Kremlin at the beginning of August. This will be Erdoğan’s first face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart since September 2015. Relations between the two countries, which had been fraying over the course […]

Several hundred convicts organized a rebellion in Corrective Labor Colony No. 35 in the republic of Khakassia in southwestern Russia, reportedly demanding Muslim prayer times.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko is investigating a claim that Vadim Troyan, first deputy head of the National Police had placed Pavel Sheremet, the journalist slain July 20 in a car bomb, under surveillance before his death.

In the past 24 hours, 6 Ukrainian soldiers died in battle, 13 were wounded and 8 other servicemen in the Armed Forces suffered concussions, said a presidential spokesman.

Aleksandr Zakharchenko, leader of the self-declared “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) announced that elections, which he had scheduled for tomorrow, July 24, would be postponed to November 6, 2016,

Leonid Volkov, opposition activist in Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation is accusing the Moscow Mayor’s office of now blocking an opposition rally originally approved.

The Belarusian journalist was killed when his car was blown up on Wednesday morning in Kiev.

Five Ukrainian servicemen have been wounded while one civilian was reportedly injured by Ukrainian fire.

Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee initiated the cases against seven investigators on charges of bribe-taking.

Pavel Sheremet, a veteran journalist known throughout the former Soviet Union for his critical reporting, was killed in a car explosion in Kiev this morning