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‘Serf’ comedy becomes top- grossing Russian film
Agence France-Presse . Moscow | Updated at 11:06pm on February 04, 2020
A comedy that tells the story of a misbehaving rich kid waking up as a 19th century serf has become the highest grossing Russian film...
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Four Turkish soldiers killed, nine hurt in Syria attack on Idlib
Agence France-Presse. Ankara | Updated at 02:28pm on February 03, 2020
Four Turkish soldiers were killed Monday by Syrian regime shelling in the northwestern region of Idlib, Turkey’s defence ministry said...
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EU’s fragile democracy
Farooque Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on February 03, 2020
AN ASSOCIATED Press report datelined January 30, 2020, Brussels — ‘EU: Russia, China use “digital war” to undermine democracies’ — cites European Commission vice-president Vera...
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Strikes hit Syria rebel bastion
Agence France-Presse . Ariha | Updated at 05:17pm on January 30, 2020
Air strikes killed 10 civilians near a bakery and a medical clinic in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region on Thursday, as government forces kept up a...
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Japan arrests former SoftBank staff suspected of spying for Russia
Agence France-Presse . Tokyo | Updated at 11:02pm on January 26, 2020
Japanese police have arrested a former SoftBank employee for allegedly stealing proprietary information from the telecom giant and giving it to Russian officials, police and...
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China, Russia require revising Rohingya strategy
Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 01:32am on January 26, 2020
The claim of jurisdiction by UN apex court International Court of Justice in Rohingya genocide case would require concerned countries, especially Russia and China, to...
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The game’s afoot
Ilya Matveev | Updated at 12:00am on January 26, 2020
RECENT years have shown that the Russian authorities are most comfortable operating in the regime of ‘special operations’ — whether inside Russia or outside. Sudden...
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Medvedev resigns, what’s going on?
| Updated at 12:00am on January 21, 2020
THERE has been a major shakeup this week in domestic Russian politics. It kicked off with president Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the federal assembly...
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Russian activists take aim at Putin in march against repression
Agence France-Presse . Moscow | Updated at 12:19am on January 20, 2020
More than a thousand opposition activists of various stripes marched in central Moscow on Sunday after president Vladimir Putin proposed re-drafting the constitution, unleashing political...
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Putin says ‘transition’ crucial after political shake-up
Agence France-Presse . Moscow | Updated at 07:03pm on January 19, 2020
President Vladimir Putin has said he does not want Russia to return to the Soviet-era practice of rulers dying in office without a succession plan,...