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Putin, in rare US interview, says Russia has no interest in wider war

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests "to the end" but has no interest in expanding its war…

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Moscow calls Ukraine’s new Russian-born army chief a traitor, says he won’t win

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev on Friday said Ukraine's new Russian-born army chief was a traitor, while the Kremlin said the appointment would not alter the outcome of what…

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Putin’s anti-war challenger faces likely exclusion from election

MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Russian anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin said on Monday that a working group of Russia's Central Election Commission had found 15% of the supporters' signatures…

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Kremlin warns West against using frozen Russian assets as collateral for Ukraine

This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine. MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Monday warned the West that…

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Russian secret electronic weapon playing havoc with airliners’ GPS

A highly secret Russian electronic warfare system is interfering with the GPS guidance of airliners and ships on Nato’s eastern flank. A surge in disruption had been detected in an…

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UPDATED: Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days

By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko on Sunday set a world record for total time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot…

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Election staff find flaws in paperwork of Putin’s anti-war challenger

Supporter lists include dead people, official says Decision due next week on whether Nadezhdin can run Candidate blames Putin for "fatal mistake" in Ukraine MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Irregularities…

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Russia has no plans to deploy nuclear arms beyond Belarus

U.S. likely to deploy nuclear weapons in England - researchers Russia says UK deployment will not deter Russia Russia says discussing Ukraine as part of BRICS MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia…

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Russia says it has evidence U.S. Patriot missiles downed transport plane

MOSCOW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Thursday they had evidence showing that Ukraine's military shot down a Russian Il-76 military transport plane last week with U.S.-made Patriot…

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Russia’s Putin to visit NATO member Turkey on Feb 12

By Tuvan Gumrukcu Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey on Feb. 12 to meet counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, a Turkish official told Reuters , in what will be the Russian…

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Russian anti-war candidate Nadezhdin says he has enough signatures to run for president

MOSCOW, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Russian anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin said on Wednesday he had submitted 105,000 signatures in his support to the Central Election Commission (CEC) to underpin his…

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Russia’s Putin registered as presidential candidate – Ifax

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has been registered as a candidate for the March 15-17 presidential election, the Interfax news agency cited the Central Election Commission…

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Russia warship conducts anti-submarine drill in South China Sea

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russia's Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov has conducted an anti-submarine exercise in the South China Sea, Russian news agency reported on Monday, citing the fleet's press…

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Russia’s Putin says Ukraine shot down plane, deliberately or in error

MOSCOW, (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a Russian military plane that crashed near the border with Ukraine was shot down by Ukrainian air defences, whether on purpose…

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Kremlin denies report that Putin reaching out to US, might drop key demands on Ukraine

MOSCOW, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Friday denied a Bloomberg report that President Vladimir Putin was "putting out feelers" to the United States for possible talks on ending…

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Russian woman jailed for 27 years for handing bomb to war blogger

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A young Russian woman was jailed for 27 years on Thursday for delivering a bomb that exploded in the hands of a pro-war…

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Anti-war candidate tries to harness protest vote against Putin

Boris Nadezhdin, a 60-year-old former opposition lawmaker, is running a long-shot campaign to challenge Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency and says his call to end Russia's war in Ukraine…

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Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities kill 18, Zelenskiy says

Russian missiles hit Ukraine's two largest cities, killing 18 people, injuring more than 130 and damaging homes and infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as Moscow's war approaches its third year. The eastern city of Kharkiv suffered three…

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Russian parliament examines plan to seize dissidents’ assets

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Russia's parliament began considering a draft bill on Monday which would give the state the power to seize the property of people convicted for defamation of…

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NATO’s Steadfast Defender exercises mark return to Cold War schemes, Russia says

Jan 21 (Reuters) - The scale of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises mark an "irrevocable return" of the alliance to Cold War schemes, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told…

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Russian parliament to ask French counterpart if it knew of ‘French mercenaries’ in Ukraine

MOSCOW, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, plans to formally ask France's National Assembly if it is aware that French mercenaries have…

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Russia is developing ties with N. Korea in all areas, including ‘sensitive’ ones – Kremlin

MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Russia is developing its relations with North Korea in all areas, including "sensitive" ones, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. North Korea's foreign minister…

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Smersh: why Putin has reinstated Stalin’s notorious and much-feared anti-spy unit

A man under arrest by Russian internal security forces was seen confessing to a “crime”, in a video posted on January 2. He had been apprehended after allegedly posting a…

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Russia’s Medvedev warns of nuclear response if Ukraine hits missile launch sites

MOSCOW, (Reuters) - A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned that any Ukrainian attacks on missile launch sites inside Russia with arms supplied by the United States and its…

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Russia’s Putin says he will visit disputed Kuril islands

MOSCOW, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands which are at the centre of a dispute…

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On Orthodox Christmas Putin vows to back soldiers who ‘defend’ Russia

President Vladimir Putin vowed on the eve of Orthodox Christmas to back soldiers who "with arms in hands" defend Russia's interests, ordering his government greater support of those who fight…

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Putin offers citizenship to foreigners who fight for Russia

President Vladimir Putin issued a decree on Thursday allowing foreign nationals who fight for Russia in Ukraine to obtain Russian citizenship for themselves and their families.The order said people who…

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Russian hackers were inside Ukraine telecoms giant for months – cyber spy chief

Illia Vitiuk is cyber chief in Ukraine's SBU spy agency Kyivstar hack destroyed telecoms giant's "core", he says Russian military spy unit Sandworm seen behind hack SBU caught Sandworm in…

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Russia accidentally bombs own village, vows to rebuild homes

A Russian regional governor said he had ordered the rebuilding of nine houses in a village that was accidentally bombed by one of Russia's own warplanes. The incident took place…

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Russia’s air assault on Ukraine draws criticism at UN Security Council meeting

By Simon Lewis Russia drew sharp criticism at the UN Security Council on Friday for launching massive missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, after Kyiv and its supporters called for…

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Kremlin says it has list of Western assets to be seized if Russian assets are confiscated

G7 to discuss theory on seizing Russian assets Kremlin: any such move would be theft Kremlin: such a move would undermine reserve currencies Kremlin says: we have a list of…

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Russian forces gain control of Maryinka in east Ukraine, defence minister says

Russian forces have gained full control of Maryinka, a town in eastern Ukraine, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin, one of Russia's most significant gains since the…

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Russia’s Navalny tracked down to ‘Polar Wolf’ prison in the Arctic

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him…

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Russia short of around 4.8 million workers in 2023, crunch to persist – Izvestia

MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Russia was short of around 4.8 million workers in 2023 and the problem will remain acute in 2024, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Sunday, citing…

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Russia dismisses Wall Street Journal’s ‘pulp fiction’ after Prigozhin death report

MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Kremlin accused the Wall Street Journal of publishing "pulp fiction" on Friday after it reported that the death of mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in…

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UPDATED: Russia threatens to sever ties if U.S. confiscates its assets

Russia may cut diplomatic ties with the United States if Washington confiscates Russian assets frozen over the Ukrainian war, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as…

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UPDATED: Kremlin says there is no basis for peace negotiations with Ukraine

MOSCOW, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that there is no current basis for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and that Kyiv's proposed peace plan was…

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Russia to test launch seven intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2024

MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Russia plans to test launch seven intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2024, Sergei Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces has said, the Interfax news…

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Putin to run for president as an independent candidate – RIA cites senior politicians

MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin will run for president again as an independent candidate with a wide support base but not on a party ticket, the state-backed RIA…

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Putin press conference: Ukraine, the West and the Russian economy

Here are some highlights from Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference and phone-in held in Moscow on Thursday: ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE "There will be peace when we…

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Putin tells Russians the war in Ukraine will go on unless Kyiv does a deal

By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW, Dec 14 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would press on with its war in Ukraine unless Kyiv did a…

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US officials say Russians hackers are launching potential SolarWinds-style operations

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - U.S. officials say that Russian hackers are targeting servers hosting outdated versions of software made by the Czech tech company JetBrains for potential SolarWinds-style…

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Russia says it has downed drones over Moscow, adjacent region

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Russian air defences downed two hostile drones over Moscow on Thursday morning, the city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with no casualties or damage reported. Separately, the…

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Moscow says EU will not succeed in curbing Russian gas imports

Any plan by the European Union to give its member states the power to halt gas imports from Russia will not succeed and will not damage the Russian economy, foreign…

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Key challenges facing Putin if he gets a new six-year term

By Mark Trevelyan Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another six years in the Kremlin by standing in an election in March where his victory is widely…

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Navalny’s team says he has vanished in Russia’s prison system

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been imprisoned since the middle of last year and his current whereabouts are unknown, his…

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‘Putin is vulnerable’: Navalny camp to tap voter concerns on war and economy

Opposition sees 100-day campaign as window of opportunity Volunteers to hit voters with cold-calls and online posts Navalny camp says Putin will win but he is vulnerable By Mark Trevelyan…

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Russians banned from travel to hand over passports within five days -decree

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Russians who have been banned from travelling abroad will have to hand over their passports to authorities within five days after being notified, according to a…

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When is 2024 Russian election?

Russia will hold a presidential election on March 17, 2024 at which President Vladimir Putin is going to run for another term that could keep him in power until at…

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Russia’s Putin says he will run for president again in 2024

MOSCOW, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would run for president again in the 2024 presidential election, a move expected to keep him in…

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Putin’s spy chief tells U.S: Ukraine will become your Vietnam

MOSCOW, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign intelligence chief told the United States on Thursday that Western support for Ukraine would turn the conflict into a "second…

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UPDATED: Russia to hold presidential election on March 17, 2024

MOSCOW, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Russia's upper house of parliament voted on Thursday to set the date for Russia's presidential election for March 17, 2024. The decision was passed unanimously…

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UPDATED: Putin talks oil, Gaza and Ukraine on Middle East trip, to meet Saudi’s MbS

Putin to meet MbS Putin meets Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Putin starts rare trip to Middle East Oil, OPEC+, Gaza, Ukraine on the agenda Putin to meet Iranian…

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Kremlin says OPEC+ output cuts will kick in later, confirms Putin to visit Gulf

Oil output cuts agreed by the OPEC+ group will take time to kick in, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, as it confirmed that President Vladimir Putin would visit the United…

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Deputy Russian army corps commander is killed in Ukraine

Major General Vladimir Zavadsky, deputy commander of Russia's 14th Army Corps, has been killed in Ukraine, a top regional official said on Monday. The governor of Russia's Voronezh region, Alexander…

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Temperatures in Siberia dip to minus 50 Celsius as record snow blankets Moscow

MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Temperatures in parts of Siberia plummeted to minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) while blizzards blanketed Moscow in record snowfall and disrupted flights…

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Russia increases maximum military strength by 170,000 soldiers

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the maximum number of servicemen in the Russian armed forces by 170,000 people, the Kremlin and the Defence Ministry said…

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