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A Finnish court on Friday sentenced Russian ultranationalist Vojislav Torden to life in prison for war crimes committed in Ukraine in 2014, including the mutilation of a wounded Ukrainian soldier.

The Helsinki District Court found Torden, a commander in the Russian far-right paramilitary group Rusich, guilty of four war crimes in eastern Ukraine’s L

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Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow for a second time this week, with city authorities saying early Friday that air defense systems downed four unmanned aircraft near the Russian capital.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said emergency crews were dispatched to areas where debris from the intercepted drones had fallen.

So, too, did Moscow region Governor

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Almost a third of Russians now view the United States favorably, about double the share from before U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, according to a Levada Center survey released Thursday.

Positive attitudes toward the U.S. had plunged to 12% in May 2023 — the lowest level since Levada began tracking sentiments in 1997. Attitudes h

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Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Thursday that its troops regained control over the town of Sudzha in the Kursk border region after seven months under Ukrainian control.

“Units of the ‘Sever’ group of forces liberated the settlements of Melovoy, Podol and Sudzha during the offensive,” the ministry said in a statement published on Telegram.

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Russian-Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina died Thursday at the age of 93 in Germany, where she had lived since the collapse of the Soviet Union, her publisher announced.

She passed away at her home near Hamburg, music publisher Boosey - Hawkes said on its website, calling her "the grande dame of new music."

Acclaimed for her distinctive style — r

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambivalent reaction to a proposed ceasefire as extremely manipulative. We now have all heard ... Putin's really foreseeable, extremely manipulative words in response to the concept of a ceasefire, Zelensky said in his nightly address.Putin said Thursday in his very first