Russia

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has yielded to political pressure. He resigns from the Russian state oil group Rosneft. He was still chairman of the board of trustees at the largest oil company in the country, despite the…
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Russian McDonald's owner Alexander Govor is taking over all Russian restaurants from the American fast-food group. He plans to continue them under a different name. McDonald's announced a few days ago that it was leaving Russia because of…
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The Kremlin denies that Russian troops are storming the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, which Ukrainian sources previously reported. The steel mill is the last Ukrainian stronghold of resistance in the southern Ukrainian city. "The…
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A meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia still seems out of sight. Ukrainian presidential adviser Michailo Podoljak, chief negotiator at the peace talks, says the countries have not yet reached an agreement. In Kyiv, there has…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin toasted his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on his election victory. "I sincerely wish you every success in your state activities and good health," Putin wrote to Macron. Many European leaders…
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Near the port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, besieged by Russian troops, satellite images indicate a possible mass grave, according to several media. The American satellite company Maxar released images showing several…
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Hungary will not support European sanctions targeting Russian oil and gas, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. In doing so, the minister repeated a previously expressed view of his government via Facebook. Still,…
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The evacuations in Ukraine will resume on Thursday after they were halted on Wednesday due to violations of the agreements. Russia and Ukraine have agreed on nine evacuation routes in the east of the country. The so-called corridor…
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The Russian economy is heading for a contraction of more than 10 percent this year. That would be the biggest drop in the gross domestic product (GDP) since the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, said former finance…
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The Russian space agency Roskosmos continues to comply with all international agreements, even if it is decided to cancel the international cooperation. This is what Roskosmos chief Dmitri Rogozin told the RIA Novosti news agency.…
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