All news on the topic: Russia

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Tourist deported from Bali after semi-naked photo on sacred mountain goes viral
Russian tourist Yuri Chilikin, 24, was deported from Bali to Moscow after publishing a photo of himself, naked from the waist down, at Mount Agung, a sacred religious site in Bali
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Paranoid Vladimir Putin snubs ambassadors in Kremlin from distance of 60ft
Vladimir Putin snubbed delegates who were accepting their credentials on Wednesday as he remained at the other side of the gilded Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace - some 60 feet away
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Top Russian energy boss found dead after being arrested ‘for taking £5k bribe’
Igor Shkurko, deputy general director of firm Yakutskenergo, had been detained over bribery allegations but the day after he issued an appeal was found dead in his cell
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World kickboxing champion on frontline in Ukraine shot dead by Russian soldiers
Mayor of Frankivsk Ruslan Martsynkiv confirmed that four-time kickboxing world champion Vitaly Merinov, 32, died in hospital after being caught in Russian gunfire while battling Vladimir Putin's troops
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Russia upgrades Belarusian jets with nuclear capability as Finland joins NATO
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that some of Belarus's ground attack aircraft have been upgraded so they can deliver nuclear weapons - the same day that Finland joins NATO
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'Bomber' smiles on CCTV before she's caught as husband says she was framed
Daria Trepova's husband has said she had been framed and that he is "completely sure" that she would never have been able to do something like that in Russia on her own
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Bomb suspect seen edging away from blogger after handing him statue explosive
Daria Trepova skulked away after handing pro-Vladimir Putin propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky a statue of himself just moments before an explosion ripped through the venue he was speaking at in St Petersburg, Russia
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Dad killed by teen daughters who claim he was a paedo put on trial after death
A "tyrant" father who was killed by his teen daughters will now be put on trial after his death following allegations he was an abuser who "systematically" tortured his own children in Russia
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Chilling moment Putin's chef claims city is Russian as flag planted in ruins
A key Vladimir Putin ally and head of the bloodthirsty Wagner Group has raised a Russian flag over a shelled-out administrative building in Bakhmut despite Ukrainian forces still controlling large parts of the city
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Suspect arrested after handling statue which killed blogger in cafe explosion
Daria Trepova was detained by the FSB and Investigative Committee in St Petersburg, Russia, according to a statement on the departments Telegram messaging app
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Hunt for woman who handled bomb minutes before cafe explosion killed blogger
Two female suspects have been identified as suspects including Daria Trepova, 26, who appears to be on the run and a video is believed to show her walking to the cafe carrying what may have been the bomb
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Inside St Petersburg cafe where pro-Putin blogger blown up with statue bomb
An investigation has been opened by Russia's state Investigative Committee, while analysts in the country have accused the Ukrainian secret service of carrying out the attack
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Man who lost partner and home in Salisbury poisonings plans to sue Russia
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok left in a perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018
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Moment pro-Putin blogger is handed bomb disguised as statuette that killed him
Vladlen Tatarsky was killed as he led a discussion at a cafe in St Petersburg moments after he was handed a statue of himself loaded with explosives which blew him apart
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Putin fan pays tribute to blogger killed in huge explosion calling him a 'saint'
Putin supporter Alexander Dugin, whose own daughter was killed in a bombing, spoke out about this afternoon's explosion in St Petersburg which killed Vladlen Tatarsky
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Pro-Putin military blogger's final post before dying in St Petersburg explosion
Russian Vladlen Tatarsky, real name Maxim Fomin, was killed in an explosion in St Petersburg earlier today amid reports a bomb was hidden in a gift he received moments before
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Blogger dies after being handed bomb disguised as a statue in busy cafe
Vladlen Tatarsky, real name Maxim Fomin, who once said Russia will 'defeat' and 'kill' everyone has died in an explosion in St Petersburg after he was given a bomb disguised as a figurine
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Vladimir Putin calls up another 147,000 soldiers amid fears many are doomed
Vladimir Putin is said to be losing troops ever since he first drafted Russian soldiers into his widely ill-conceived war in Ukraine. Now has demanded almost 150,000 men be called up to join the war
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Ukrainian tennis star loses “moral strength” as she slams chiefs' Russia stance
Tennis stars from Russian and Belarus have continued playing at the biggest tournaments - except Wimbledon - despite their countries being involved in the ongoing Ukraine war
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Russia's arrest of US reporter a 'retaliation' as Putin's man says no quick swap
The case against The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia, could be used as a 'trump card' for exchange of prisoners with the US, a Russian lawyer claimed
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Russia launches new space rocket carrying highly classified payload
The Ministry of Defence claimed to have launched the Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport on Wednesday March 29, and said to have a classified payload onboard
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Nuclear material from Ukraine could fall in 'wrong hands' to make 'dirty bomb'
Vladimir Putin's soldiers continue to launch artillery around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - which is the largest facility of its kind in Europe - and could infect the entire continent with radiation in the event of a disaster
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Russian commander who ordered Mariupol theatre bombing where 700 died unmasked
A group called Ukrainian Cyber Resistance name 41-year-old Colonel Sergei Atroshchenko as responsible for the bombing of Mariupol theatre in which up to 700 died
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US journalist arrested in Russia over spy and state secrets accusations
American Evan Gershkovich, 31, a Moscow-based foreign correspondent, has been held over alleged "illegal activities" and is "suspected of espionage", according to the FSB
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Rising Russian tennis star set to defect to France in time for French Open
Russian player Vavara Gracheva has had a promising start to the year and looks set to defect from her home country