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Putin wishes Russians victory in Ukraine in New Year speech
AFP, Published on 31/12/2025
» MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Russia believed it would win in Ukraine in an address Wednesday, as his country marked another New Year -- their main holiday -- at war.
Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunami warnings
AFP, Published on 30/07/2025
» TOKYO - Tsunamis hit parts of Russia's Far East and Japan on Wednesday after a huge magnitude 8.8 earthquake, with warnings in place around the Pacific of waves of over three metres (10 feet) in places.
Putin oversees nuclear response drills
AFP, Published on 26/10/2022
» MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday surveyed drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow pressed unfounded claims to India and China that Ukraine was developing a "dirty bomb".
Russians start voting in parliamentary polls after historic crackdown
AFP, Published on 17/09/2021
» MOSCOW - Russians in the Far East began voting in a three-day parliamentary election in which vocal Kremlin critics have been barred from running following a historic crackdown on the opposition.
Contact lost with passenger plane in Russia's Far East
AFP, Published on 06/07/2021
» MOSCOW: Contact has been lost with a passenger plane carrying more than two dozen people in Russia's remote Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, local officials said Tuesday.
Kremlin-backed falcon project sparks smuggling fears
AFP, Published on 30/10/2019
» MOSCOW: A massive Kremlin-backed project to breed and export gyrfalcons, or gyrs, has alarmed scientists as a possible future scheme to smuggle wild birds.