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Russia detains more Jehovah’s Witnesses amid crackdown
Russia brands the US evangelical Christian movement a totalitarian sect and in 2017 designated it as an extremist organisation, ordering its dissolution in the country.
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Abe strikes dovish tone on Russia at islands rally
PM Shinzo Abe vowed to focus on concluding an official peace treaty with Russia, after meeting President Vladimir Putin 25 times, most recently last month.
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Trump says US military intervention in Venezuela 'an option,' Russia object
The United States, Canada and several Latin American countries have disavowed Nicolas Maduro over his disputed re-election last year.
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Trump confidant Roger Stone, indicted by Mueller, pleads not guilty
Roger Stone, 66, is charged with lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction in relation to his contacts with WikiLeaks.
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Two dead as Russian bomber crashes during training flight
The incident occurred in Russia's northern Murmansk region and sources told Russian agencies that emergencies services are trying to put out a fire at the accident site.
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Facebook closes hundreds of 'inauthentic' Russia-linked pages
The California-based social media giant said they were part of two separate but similar Russian-based influence operations, one that was active in a variety of former Soviet republics and another focused specifically on Ukraine.
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Trump: 'I never worked for Russia'
Trump also took issue with 'Washington Post' report that he had concealed details about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and confiscated his interpreter’s notes.
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New 'gay purge' underway in Russia's Chechnya - activists
Chechen authorities immediately denied the claims which come two years after an international outcry when gay men said they had been tortured by law-enforcement agencies in the majority-Muslim Russian republic.
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Moscow demands answers after FBI arrests Russian
FBI agents arrested Dmitry Makarenko on December 29 on Saipan, a US island in the western Pacific and he had since been taken to Florida, a Russian foreign ministry statement said.
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[UPDATE] Death toll jumps to 37 in Russian gas blast
A baby boy was found alive on Tuesday after 35 hours spent in freezing cold in the rubble, in what emergency officials described as a miracle.
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Rescuers pull baby alive from Russian block after gas blast
Part of a 10-storey apartment building collapsed following a gas explosion on Monday morning in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk.
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3 dead, 79 missing after gas explosion rocks Russia high-rise
Deadly gas explosions are relatively common in Russia where much of the infrastructure dates back to the Soviet era and safety requirements are often ignored.
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Putin says Russia is ready to deploy new hypersonic nuclear missile
President Vladimir Putin announced an array of new weapons in March, including the Avangard, in one of his most bellicose speeches in years.
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Russia warns of global conflict over nuclear pact collapse
Washington has threatened to pull out of the accord, saying Moscow failed to comply with it.
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Putin pushes economic growth at annual press conference
Economic questions dominated the opening exchanges, with Vladimir Putin beginning as usual by reeling off growth figures.
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Kremlin rejects new US reports alleging Russian election meddling
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any meddling in US politics, casting the allegations as part of a politically-motivated anti-Russian campaign.
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Trump denies collusion after major revelations in Russia probe
Donald Trump took to Twitter to address the multiple court filings that dropped on Friday in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's sweeping investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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US prosecutors name Trump in hush payments, detail Russian contacts
The documents turned up the heat on Trump by confirming prosecutors’ belief of his involvement in a campaign finance violation.
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Maduro announces $6bn in Russian investments in Venezuela
The Venezuelan strongman is in Moscow to whip up support from allies to prop up an economy in freefall.
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Russia denies US claims of violating Cold War-era nuclear treaty
Signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the INF resolved a crisis over Soviet nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles targeting Western capitals.
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Russia has ‘partially unlocked’ Ukrainian Azov Sea ports - Kiev
Russia has partially unlocked Ukrainian sea ports on the Azov Sea, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister Volodymyr Omelyan said.
