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French Cyclist Arrested in Far East Russia Placed in Pre-Trial Detention Until Oct. 4

Sofiane Sehili was arrested after crossing the Russian border with China illegally while attempting to break the record for the fastest endurance cycle...

Moscow Court Orders Arrest of Exiled Businessman Chichvarkin in Absentia Over ‘War Fakes’

The London-based restaurateur was charged with spreading “fake news” about the war in Ukraine and evading “foreign agent” obligations.
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Australian-Born Singer Vassy to Represent U.S. at Intervision Contest in Last-Minute Switch

R&B artist B. Howard, originally slated to perform for the U.S., withdrew from the competition for what organizers said were “family reasons.”
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Russia Inflates Battlefield Gains After a Costly Summer Offensive

Analysts say the gap between the military’s upbeat reports and the battlefield reality helps feed into Putin’s conviction that Russia is winning.
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Latvia Arrests Man Accused of Spying for Russia

Authorities in the Baltic country claimed the Latvian man, who was not identified, had shared the locations and security protocols of Latvian and NATO...
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U.S. Lawmaker Says Congress Exploring UFO Talks With Russian Parliament

Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna said she had “recently” spoken with Russian government officials and asked whether they had information to share...
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Transneft Warns Ukrainian Drone Attacks May Force Oil Production Cuts – Reuters

Ukraine has ramped up its attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure in recent months, targeting a key source of revenue for the Kremlin’s war effort.
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Makeshift Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska Memorial Appears Outside U.S. Embassy in Moscow

Nearby, a fringe nationalist group held an anti-American demonstration, with some protesters waving Confederate flags.
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Lab Tests Show Alexei Navalny Was Poisoned Before His Death, Widow Says

Yulia Navalnaya said that her husband’s biological samples were obtained last February and later “securely smuggled abroad.”
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Kamchatka Peninsula Braces for 5-Day Internet Shutdown Amid Undersea Cable Work

Authorities said “large-scale” work will be carried out on the Sakhalin-Kamchatka fiber-optic line to prevent longer outages if the cable erodes or...
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Fugitive Wirecard Executive Living in Moscow Under False Identity, Investigation Reveals

Jan Marsalek has been wanted by German authorities on fraud charges and is listed on Interpol’s wanted database.
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FSB Says It Arrested African Man Spying for Ukraine

The man, identified only as a citizen of a North African country, was said to have gathered information about military sites and infrastructure.
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Russia and Belarus Stage Simulated Nuclear Strike During Zapad-2025 War Games

Russia first unveiled the Oreshnik, a hypersonic ballistic missile, during a highly publicized strike on Ukraine last November.
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Italian Court Orders Extradition of Ukrainian Suspected in Nord Stream Explosion

The man’s lawyer said that he would appeal the Bologna court’s decision to Italy’s highest court.
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Ukraine’s Military Claims Responsibility for Explosions Near Vladivostok

Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee said the blasts were caused by gas equipment, damaging vehicles but leaving no casualties.
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Moscow Court ‘Can’t Explain’ Why Activist Ilya Yashin Was Labeled ‘Stateless’

Yashin said last week that Russian authorities had effectively stripped him of citizenship after court papers filed by his lawyer described him as stateless...
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FSB Arrests Woman Accused of Bombing Trans-Siberian Railway

The woman, said to be in her fifties, was allegedly working on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence, according to Russian law enforcement.
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EU Delays New Sanctions on Russia – Politico

The reported delay comes amid new pressure from Donald Trump, who called on NATO members to halt purchases of Russian oil.
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2 Killed in Russian Overnight Attacks on Southern Ukraine

Among those wounded in an airstrike in southeastern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region was a four-year-old girl.
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