Russian officials face various restrictions on their ability to travel abroad, the Kremlin said Friday after Reuters linked the limits to fears that foreign powers could attempt to gain access to state secrets. “All [state] organizations have nuances in the current system of approving travel abroad,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in his daily briefing with reporters. “There are departments where employees are not allowed departures. There are organizations with a mandatory individual notification procedure,” Peskov added without adding further details. In a report published Thursday, Re...
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A high-ranking official in Russia’s Ural Mountains region of Perm was forced to resign after a video filmed by his son at a resort in Bali sparked public backlash. Alexei Dyomkin, the Perm region government's deputy chairman, announced his resignation on Thursday, just days after his son Ilya posted a video in which he boasted about his worry-free life on the tropical Indonesian island. “Some ask me, ‘Ilya, will you ever come back to Perm?’” Ilya Dyomkin said in the since-deleted Instagram Reel. “Guys, this is what my Saturday morning looks like. Why the hell would I want to be in Perm?” he ad...
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Russia has made clear to Israel that Iran "does not want escalation," Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday, after reports Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes against its arch-rival. "There have been telephone contacts between the leadership of Russia and Iran, our representatives and the Israelis. We made it very clear in these conversations, we told the Israelis that Iran does not want escalation," Lavrov said in an interview with Russian radio stations. The Kremlin also said Friday it was looking into the reports that Israel carried out a strike on Iran and urged all si...
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A journalist for a leading St. Petersburg news website has had her home searched by police in connection with a criminal probe against prominent exiled investigative journalist Andrei Zakharov, the outlet, Fontanka.ru, reported Friday. Reporter Ksenia Klochkova was reportedly named a witness in the case against Zakharov. “The searches at Ksenia’s are allegedly part of this case because she’s an acquaintance of Zakharov,” Fontanka’s editor-in-chief Alexander Gorshkov told the pro-Kremlin outlet gazeta.ru. “But as far as I understand, dozens of journalists, and not just journalists, in St. Peter...
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Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Leonid Volkov, an exiled ally of late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, the president of Lithuania announced Friday. Volkov, who has lived in exile since Moscow banned Navalny’s groups as “extremist” organizations in 2021, was in mid-March assaulted with a hammer outside his home in Vilnius, Lithuania, leaving him with a broken arm. The suspected assailants have been detained in Poland and will be handed over to Lithuania “after the completion of proceedings,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told reporters. “I tha...
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Russian strikes overnight killed three people and injured 20 in the southern Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian officials said Friday. "A five-story building is on fire in Dnipro. It is partially destroyed. There may be people under the rubble. So far, six people have been injured," Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the region, said on Telegram. He said the upper two floors of the building, located in the center of Dnipro, were destroyed, adding that there was also damage in another attack in the Kryvyi Rih district, west of Dnipro. Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, said ...
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Russian strikes on Ukraine in the early hours of Friday killed at least nine people, including three children, as Kyiv said it shot down a Russian strategic bomber for the first time. Moscow said a military plane crashed over the south of the country while returning to base from a combat mission after suffering a technical malfunction. The downing of a Russian bomber used to fire cruise missiles at Ukraine would be a highly symbolic win for Kyiv, which has been pounded by hundreds of overnight Russian aerial strikes since Moscow invaded more than two years ago. The latest overnight Russian str...
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Russian night-time strikes killed eight people, including two children, and injured 18 in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region, the interior ministry said in a new toll Friday. Six people, including children aged six and eight, died in the Synelnykivsky area south-east of Dnipro, and two people died and 16 others were wounded in Dnipro, the regional capital, the ministry said. President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been appealing to allies for better air defence systems, said Russia should be held accountable for the attack in a statement on social media. "Every country that provides air def...
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Ukraine said Friday that, for the first time since Russia's invasion, it had downed a Russian long-range bomber used to fire cruise missiles at cities across the war-battered country. "For the first time, anti-aircraft missile units of the air force in cooperation with the defense intelligence of Ukraine destroyed a Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bomber," Ukraine's military said in a statement on social media. The Russian Defense Ministry said a “technical malfunction” caused the crash. Russian officials said the plane had crashed over the southern Stavropol region when it was flying back to bas...
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Ukraine said Friday that, for the first time since Russia's invasion, it had downed a Russian long-range bomber used to fire cruise missiles at cities across the war-battered country. "For the first time, anti-aircraft missile units of the air force in cooperation with the defense intelligence of Ukraine destroyed a Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bomber," Ukraine's military said in a statement on social media. Russian officials said the plane had crashed over the southern Stavropol region when it was flying back to base and at least one member of the crew had died. Two other pilots were taken to...
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