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Russian director, playwright arrested on accusations of "justifying terror
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to CNN, Yevgenia Berkovich was arrested on Friday alongside the play's author, Svetlana Petriychuk, after investigators alleged that their award-winning play "Finist, the Brave Falcon" was in violation of the law.
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Expects Taliban to fulfil its promise of inclusive government: Russian For
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Lavrov while speaking to reporters after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, claimed that there is convincing evidence to the "effect that the United States supports the terrorist groups entrenched in the territory of Afghanistan".
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Russia blames Ukraine, West for 'terror attack' that injured writer Zakhar
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement said that the car explosion was caused by an explosive device planted along its route in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia.
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Pro-Kremlin writer Zakhar Prilepin injured in car bomb blast in Moscow
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Zakhar Prilepin was injured and another person was killed in a car bomb blast in a village east of Moscow.
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Russia partially relocates 18 settlements due to intensified shelling by U
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Residents of 18 settlements near the frontline in Zaporizhzhia Region, including Energodar, have been temporarily relocated to safer places due to intensified shelling by Ukrainian troops, acting governor of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky said, TASS state news agency reports.
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Texas Senate passes bill putting restrictions on land purchases by citizen
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
This raises alarms among civil liberties advocates who fear it is the first step toward legally enshrining discrimination based on national origin in the state.
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Scuffle breaks out between Ukrainian and Russian delegates at Turkey Summi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A video posted by Anadolu shows delegates shoving each other after Ukrainian representatives unfurled their national flag and shouted anti-Russia slogans behind a member of the Russian delegation, Olga Timofeeva, while she was speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Econom
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'Need to convert billions of rupees accumulated in Indian banks,' says Lav
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
"As for the rupees this is a problem because we accumulated billions of rupees in accounts in the Indian banks and we need to use this money", said the Russian Foreign Minister during a media briefing here.
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"Ability of Ukrainian, Western friends to lie... " Russia's FM Lavrov on K
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow had on Wednesday accused Kiev of making an unsuccessful attempt to attack the Kremlin and assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Counterterrorism in focus at 12th India-Russia Joint Working Group meeting
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma visited Moscow on May 3-4 for the JWG on Counter Terrorism and India-Russia bilateral consultations on UN and multilateral issues, and held discussions, the Ministry of External Affairs said in an official release today.
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US denies Russia's "ludicrous" claim over involvement in drone attack
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said, "I would just tell you Mr. (Dmitry) Peskov's lying. I mean, it's obviously a ludicrous claim. The United States had nothing to do with this. We don't even know what happened here."
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US "intensely engaged" in efforts to seek immediate release of jailed WSJ
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Answering a query over the efforts of freeing jailed Evan Gerschkovich, Blinken said, "It's a sombre day, for the reasons that my alter ego cited just a few minutes ago. We know that journalists around the world are increasingly under siege - under siege in a whole variety of ways.
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