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Russia’s Sberbank plans joint AI research with China as DeepSeek leaps forward
MOSCOW--Sberbank plans to collaborate with Chinese researchers on joint AI projects, a top executive at Russia’s biggest bank ...
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...
Founder of pro-Russian paramilitary group dies in explosion in Moscow
Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a ...
Trump DOJ disbands team targeting Russian oligarchs in shift to combating drugs and gangs
Attorney General Pam Bondi ended the Biden-era DOJ effort to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.
Russian court order puts state agency in charge of Moscow's Domodedovo airport
A Moscow court has given Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, temporary control of all key services at Moscow's ...
Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia
The severing of electricity ties to oil- and gas-rich Russia and switching to European grids is steeped in geopolitical and ...
Moscow's oil exports are under pressure as Western sanctions hit Russia's 'shadow fleet'
The "shadow fleet" comprises often aging, uninsured ships that aim to evade sanctions on Russian energy exports.
Russian strike on Ukraine apartment kills 14 as Kyiv and Moscow trade blame over boarding school attack
A Russian strike on a residential building in central Ukraine killed at least 14 people, including two children, emergency ...
Pro-Russia paramilitary leader dies in Moscow apartment bombing
Armen Sargsyan, the leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine, died in a hospital after he was injured in ...
Russia’s new school textbook claims Moscow was ‘forced’ to invade Ukraine – and was edited by a Putin aide
A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to ...
Moscow says its troops repel Ukraine offensive in Russia's Kursk region
Russia's defence ministry said its troops repelled Ukrainian forces who on Thursday mounted a counteroffensive in Russia's western Kursk region. The Russian report came six months to the day that ...