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Russia Expecting “Very Important, Full-Fledged Visit” By PM Modi: Kremlin

July 6, 2024 admin

This will be PM Modi’s first visit to Russia in nearly five years. Moscow: Russia is expecting a “very important and full-fledged visit” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Moscow, which is crucial for Russian-Indian relations, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday. Prime Minister Modi will be in Moscow from July 8 to 9…

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Wagner Chief Prigozhin Remembered As “Great Man”, Year After Russia Mutiny

June 22, 2024 admin

Prigozhin and his Wagner Group continue to command respect. Moscow: Almost a year since Yevgeny Prigozhin sent his Wagner mercenaries marching towards Moscow in a rebellion against Russia’s military leadership, residents in the capital spoke of respect and admiration for the late renegade. The mercenary chief died in a mysterious aeroplane crash two months after…

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Russia hammers Ukraine’s power grid again and Kyiv’s drones target more enemy oil depots

June 20, 2024 admin

Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, seeking to curb each other’s ability to fight in a war that is now in its third year, officials said on June 20. With no…

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Ukraine Summit Produced “Zero” Results, Says Kremlin

June 17, 2024 admin

“If we talk about the results, then they come down to zero,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. (File) Moscow: The Kremlin said Monday that a Kyiv-led international peace summit on Ukraine that it was not invited to produced “zero” results. Officials from more than 90 countries gathered in Switzerland this weekend, backing Ukraine’s independence but…

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Putin vows truce if Ukraine exits Moscow-occupied areas and drops NATO bid

June 14, 2024 admin

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on June 14 to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv, which…

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‘George Orwell Library’ shines a light in Russia

October 30, 2023 admin

Librarian Alexandra Karaseva, 67, stands in the library named after English novelis George Orwell in Ivanovo, a city located some 250 km northeast of Moscow, on October 20, 2023. From the shelves of the library, the old lady grabs books whose place she naturally knows. Orwell, Sorokin, Dostoevsky. | Photo Credit: AFP The librarian scans…

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