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Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariins

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Russia accuses Ukraine of Moscow drone attack

 06:35 24/07/2023

Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind a drone attack that damaged at least two buildings in the capital Moscow early on Monday morning.
Igor Strelkov. ©  Sputnik/Maxim Blinov

Controversial ex-Donbass militia commander arrested in Moscow – media

 09:26 21/07/2023

Authorities have taken action against Igor Strelkov on suspicion of extremism, his wife cliams
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Putin may still seek revenge on Wagner boss – CIA chief

 07:54 21/07/2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA.
FILE PHOTO. ©  Getty Images / bfk92

Russian military issues maritime warning for Black Sea

 13:38 19/07/2023

All ships heading for Ukrainian ports will be treated as potentially carrying weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
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Black Sea grain deal ‘is terminated’ – Kremlin

 06:04 17/07/2023

Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the end of the agreement is not related to Ukraine’s attack on the Crimean Bridge
Photo credit: Russian-installed leader of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo via Telegram/Handout via REUTERS

Girl injured on Crimea bridge in intensive care, Russia points finger at Ukraine - RIA

 05:57 17/07/2023

"The hardest thing is that her parents died, dad and mum," Russia's Belgorod governor said.
US President Joe Biden speaks in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 12, 2023. ©  Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Russia should stop attacking Russia – Biden

 21:06 12/07/2023

The US leader delivered his most recent gaffe during a keynote speech at the NATO summit
Prigozhin's mutiny saw Wagner take over military facilities in the city of Rostov-on-Don

Wagner boss Prigozhin is in Russia, Belarus ruler Lukashenko says

 05:15 06/07/2023

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin - who led a short-lived armed rebellion in Russia last month - is in Russia and not Belarus, the leader of Belarus says.

 


 
The ‘coup’ has left Russian President Vladimir Putin seriously weakened. Picture: Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik/AFP

‘Where are they?’: Russian oligarchs disappear as Wagner ‘coup’ fallout grows

 13:21 05/07/2023

Russia’s oligarchs are laying low – either in hiding or behind bars in secret prisons – as the hunt for sympathisers of a failed coup picks up.
Alina Smutko/Reuters | The Zaporizhzhia plant seen from the banks of the Dnipro on June 16, after the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse.

Ukraine warns Russia might attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. How worried should we be?

 13:08 05/07/2023

Russia’s oligarchs are laying low – either in hiding or behind bars in secret prisons – as the hunt for sympathisers of a failed coup picks up.
A worker removes the logo on a window of the PMC Wagner Centre in St. Petersburg. ANTON VAGANOV/REUTERS

Putin’s Corporate Takeover of Wagner Has Begun

 20:05 02/07/2023

Attempts to grab the reins of companies will be a test of his power
Yevgeny Prigozhin called off an armed march on Moscow over the weekend. PRIGOZHIN PRESS SERVICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

◆ WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Wagner Chief Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders

 09:15 28/06/2023

The mercenary leader planned to capture Russia’s military leadership as part of the mutiny, Western officials said, and he accelerated his plans after the domestic intelligence agency became aware of the plot.

REUTERS / The focus in Kyiv in recent days has been the impact of the Wagner mercenary group's rebellion on the war

Ukraine war: Countdown has begun to end of Putin, say Kyiv officials

 05:43 28/06/2023

Attention in the Ukrainian capital has been fixed squarely on the mutiny of the Wagner Group, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its consequences for Vladimir Putin and the conduct of the war in Ukraine.
Members of the Wagner group sit atop a tank in a street in the city of Rostov-on-Don in Russia, on June 24, 2023. Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s wild weekend and the Wagner group’s march to Moscow, explained

 13:31 26/06/2023

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is supposedly headed to Belarus, but Putin’s troubles aren’t over.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered the deal to have Prigozhin exiled to Belarus.

​Chilling way Putin stopped fiery rebellion ​

 06:47 26/06/2023

New details surrounding the dramatic march on Russia have revealed how Vladimir Putin scrambled to extinguish the largest challenge to his leadership in years.
This image grab taken from handout footage posted on the Telegram account of the press service of Concord, a company linked to Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, on May 25, 2023, shows Prigozhin speaking in Bakhmut, Ukraine. © Handout / AFP

Open rebellion against Russia may be Wagner chief Prigozhin’s last stand

 19:43 25/06/2023

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin triggered a crisis in Russia on Saturday with an armed rebellion headed to Moscow. But by the following day, the 62-year-old mercenary leader appeared to have played all of his cards and now faces a negotiated exile in Belarus along with some of his troops.  
Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2010. Picture: AFP

​‘Created a monster’: Putin’s power sapped ​

 06:40 25/06/2023

There’s “unfinished business” between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivers a video address, on June 24, 2023, as Wagner fighters stage rebellion. Picture: AFP

Putin spokesman says Wagner chief to leave for Belarus

 23:20 24/06/2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, was cheered after ending an insurrection attempt in Russia.
 
Putin vows to crush Prigozhin uprising and retake city of Rostov

Putin vows to crush Prigozhin uprising and retake city of Rostov

 08:18 24/06/2023

Founder of Wagner paramilitary group says he is heading for Moscow to oust the army’s leadership

 
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov ©  Sputnik / press service of the Head of Chechen Republic

‘No excuse’ for Wagner mutiny – Chechen leader

 08:16 24/06/2023

Ramzan Kadyrov has denounced Evgeny Prigozhin as a traitor, while vowing to do his best to restore order
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