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Moscow Seizes Pasta Maker Makfa in Wartime Nationalization Sweep

The company’s lawyer said he “sees grounds” to challenge the verdict with Russia’s Constitutional Court.

'de-privatization'

The Kremlin’s Creeping Nationalizations Hit Chelyabinsk Businesses

These seized assets are likely destined to be transferred to regime loyalists, analysts agreed.

Russian Billionaire Antipov Detained After Steel Plants Nationalized

Earlier on Monday, a court ruled to seize three steel production plants owned by billionaire Yury Antipov.

Drunk Train Driver Causes Rail Collision in Russia

One of the train drivers is thought to have continued past a stop signal, thus causing the incident on Monday night.

'special operation'

Ukraine Says Destroyed Russian Warplane in Ural Mountains

Video shared by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine showed an unidentified person setting fire to the Su-34 fighter bomber at night.

private property

Russian Town Cuts Down Local Resident's Tree for New Year Decoration

Officials in the town of Minyar later apologized for cutting down the spruce, claiming that public records listed the land where the tree grew as “ownerless...

'illegal activities'

Russia Hands Jehovah’s Witness Follower 7-Year Jail Term for ‘Extremism’

Russia’s Supreme Court in 2017 declared the religious movement to be “extremist,” banning its estimated 400 branches across the country.

FSB Helicopter Crashes in Urals, Killing Crew

The cause of the deadly crash is believed to be a "technical malfunction," state-run news agencies reported.

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