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Was pressured to plead guilty, says Maria Butina upon return to Russia
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 27 (ANI): Russian gun-rights activist Maria Butina, who was released from prison in the US on Friday after having served more than 15 months for conspiring to act as a foreign agent, returned to Moscow on Saturday.
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Russian national Maria Butina released from US prison
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Oct 26 (ANI): Russian gun-rights activist Maria Butina was released from prison in the US on Friday after having served more than 15 months for conspiring to act as a foreign agent, US Federal Bureau of Prisons said, adding that the activist is expected to be immediately
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Russian soldier kills 8 colleagues at military base in Siberia
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 26 (ANI): Eight Russian soldiers were killed and two others sustained injuries in an apparent mass shooting incident at a military base in Siberia on Friday, as per the country's Defence Ministry.
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US refused to accept our proposal to include protocol on drones in INF Tre
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 25 (Sputnik/ANI): Moscow had proposed that Washington should sign an additional protocol to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that expanded to include an issue regarding the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but the US refused, Russian Deputy Forei
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Turkey, Russia to jointly push back Kurdish fighters along Turkey's border
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Sochi [Russia], Oct 23 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday (local time) agreed to jointly push back Kurdish fighters from a "safe zone" along the Turkey-Syria border, after marathon talks here.
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Tulsi Gabbard hits out at Hillary Clinton over her Russia remarks
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], Oct 19 (ANI): Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on Friday hit out at Hillary Clinton for her remarks that Russians are currently "grooming" a Democrat running in the presidential primary to run as a third-party candidate and champion their
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Amid Turkish offensive in Syria, Erdogan dials Putin, accepts invite to vi
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 16 (ANI): In a significant development amid Ankara's ongoing military incursions in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephonic conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and accepted the latter's invite to visit Russia.
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Syria: Russian troops patrolling areas vacated by Americans
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], Oct 16 (ANI): Russia on Tuesday (local time) said its military units were patrolling the territory in northern Syria which was vacated by Americans.
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Russia-US-China consultations on Afghanistan may be held by October-end
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 14 (Sputnik/ANI): Russia, the United States and China may hold their trilateral consultations on Afghanistan by the end of October, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov said on Monday.
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Moscow, Riyadh to sign agreement on launching satellite from Saudi Arabia:
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], Oct 14 (Sputnik/ANI): Russia and Saudi Arabia will sign an agreement on launching a satellite from the kingdom's territory with the use of Russian technologies, as per Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev.
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IAF wants new Russian MiG-29s to be equipped with indigenous weapons
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 13 (ANI): At a time when the Indian Air Force (IAF) is batting for indigenisation, the Force is planning to acquire the new 21 MiG-29 fighters from Russia and equip them with indigenous weapon systems such as the Astra air to air missile.
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Alexei Leonov, first man to ever walk in space, dies at 85
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 11 (ANI): Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first person to perform a spacewalk back in 1965, has died in Moscow at the age of 85, Russian space agency Roscosmos Space Corporation announced on Friday.
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