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Russia Sentences Volgograd Student to 12 Years in Prison for Sending $40 to Ukraine

Andrei Glukhov, a 21-year-old student with cerebral palsy, was convicted of treason for sending two 1,500-ruble transfers to a Ukrainian bank account.

Nearly Half of Russian War Veterans Can't Find Work After Returning from Ukraine, Officials Say

The statistic underscores the Kremlin’s ongoing challenge in reintegrating combat veterans into civilian life.
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Feature

Russia’s New Indigenous Policy Enables Unchecked Resource Exploitation, Experts Warn

Beneath the lofty language, the policy framework offers few, if any, tangible benefits to Indigenous communities, Indigenous experts told MT.
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Chelyabinsk Teenager Jailed Nearly 10 Years for Murder That Sparked Anti-Roma Riots

Yegor Yurchenko, who is deaf and nonverbal, was arrested in October on suspicion of killing 40-year-old taxi driver Yelena Sarafanova.
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Number of Injured in Bryansk Region Bridge Bombing Rises to 104, Authorities Say

Seven others were killed late Saturday when a bridge was blown up over a Moscow-bound passenger train carrying 388 people.
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Russian Tourists Defy a Toxic Black Sea Oil Spill as Summer Season Begins

Authorities have banned swimming off the coast of Anapa due to December's disastrous oil spill. Tourists have been seen enjoying the waters anyway.
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Explosions Rock Site of Russian Navy Drills in Far East

Anti-terrorism authorities said they “neutralized” a threat in an area near the city of Vladivostok but did not provide further details.
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Ryazan News Editor Accused of Extortion Released on House Arrest

Alexei Frolov, who headed the Ryazan bureau of Novaya Gazeta until his arrest in January, was detained alongside two other local journalists.
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On This Day in 1995, a Devastating Earthquake Struck Sakhalin

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake wiped out the oil-producing town of Neftegorsk.
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Wildfires Force Evacuation of Village in Buryatia

Strong winds pushed a blaze toward the village of Sulkhara, prompting officials to bus 91 residents, including 33 children, to temporary shelters.
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News Analysis Leyla Latypova

How the Circassian Genocide Remains an Inconvenient Truth for the Kremlin

The Circassian Day of Mourning spotlights a genocide that Moscow still refuses to acknowledge.
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Teenager Kills 5, Injures 4 in Drunken Stabbing in Irkutsk Region

The attacker, who was not identified by name, set the house on fire after the stabbing and died in the blaze, police said.
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FSB Says It Dismantled Terrorist Cell in Nizhny Novgorod Region

The FSB accused the group of espousing a militant ideology “aimed at violently seizing power and establishing a so-called global caliphate.”
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Wildfires in Siberia’s Zabaikalsky Region Cause Nearly $6M in Damage

As of early Monday, wildfires were burning across more than 750,000 hectares in the region, accounting for over 97% of all active wildfires in Russia.
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Hundreds of Unpaid Construction Workers Stranded in Remote Chukotka Town

Zemtek, a mining industry service provider, stopped paying wages to some 1,100 employees in March, a labor rights activist told journalists.
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Feature

In Russia’s Sakha, a Fallen Conscript’s Family Searches for Justice on the State’s Terms

The case of conscript Aman Malyshev reflects the careful line that military families in Russia must tread when seeking answers from the government.
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News Analysis Leyla Latypova

Will Putin Tap Tatarstan’s Global Appeal for the Russia-U.S. Rapprochement?

The republic of Tatarstan, which once strove to break away from Russia, has become indispensable to realizing the Kremlin’s grand foreign policy ambitions...
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Wildfires in Zabaikalsky Region Inch Closer to Capital City

Chita, with a population of 350,000, sits at the center of a federal-level state of emergency that has been in place for nearly a month.
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opinion Andras Toth-Czifra

Meet Russia's Weirdest Regional Governor. He Could Become the New Norm.

Examining Georgy Filimonov's leadership of Vologda could indicate the direction Russia's regional governance is going in.
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Mass Blackout Hits Siberia’s Coal-Producing Kemerovo Region

At least seven coal mines experienced ventilation failures, forcing workers to evacuate to the surface, emergency authorities said.
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