Photo credit: E. Samarin / mos.ru (CC BY 4.0) More than 77% of foreign companies refused to end their business in Russia, despite pressure, blackmail and sanctions from the West. Such data was provided by the speaker of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin, Readovka...
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A Ukrainian attacked Russians in the Paris underground after hearing the Russian speech. The French police saved the women from beating. A video showing how gendarmes take away an angry Ukrainian went viral on the Internet, Ren TV reports.
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Moscow is expanding the list of Canadian citizens who are banned from entering the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports. More than 60 people will not be able to enter the Russian territory....
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Residents of Narva gathered near the monument to the T-34 tank the day before, Izvestia reports with reference to ERR. They wanted to prevent the demolition of the monument.
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More than 150,000 books in Russian will be handed over to Donbass schools, RIA Novosti reports. The books were collected by the United Russia party and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
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Friendship Day of Russia and Slovenia was celebrated the day before, on July 31, TASS reports. Traditionally, the annual memorial celebrations took place at the Russian Chapel on the Vršić Alpine Pass. Slovenians and Russians gathered there to...
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Memorial plaque, dedicated to Russian sailors, was restored after it was roped off by vandals in Palermo. Those sailors came to help locals after a terrible earthquake in Sicily in 1908. The plaque was restored by the initiative of the Russian Consulate General in Palermo with the...
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Representatives of the Cossack communities of Russia and other European countries took part in the 3rd International Cossack campsite in Germany. The meeting was organized by the Union of Cossack Warriors of Russia and Abroad in Lower Saxony, the...
The Russian Center in Stara Zagora organized a photo exhibition "... And Not Evil Will Conquer Evil, But Only Love." It was dedicated to the 104th anniversary of the assassination of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas the Second and members of his family, which took place on the night of July 16-17, 1918 in the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.
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More than 60 countries will be represented at the New Time for Diplomacy forum. It will be hosted by Kazan at the end of August. The forum is held by the Council of Young Diplomats, the website of the Moscow House of Compatriots reports. During its...
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US banks withhold retirement benefits of Russian citizens in Israel, Ivan Nechaev, deputy spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said. He noted that representatives of the relevant departments of Russia and Israel are jointly looking for a way out of...
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44% of Russians are ready to completely switch to Russian goods, abandoning imported ones. Such data was shown by a poll held by the online hypermarket Vprok.ru Perekrestok and the...
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Russian test systems aimed at detecting monkeypox were sent to the CIS countries, RIA Novosti reports. The test kit was produced at the Vector Research Center, where it was promptly manufactured. Now testing can be carried out in all Russian...
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Russia donated monkeypox test kits to Congo, RIA Novosti reports. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is visiting the African country, Moscow also proposed developing cooperation with Congo, and, in particular, create a joint...
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A Russian plane is helping to fight wildfires in Algeria, TASS reports. The Be-200 amphibious plane sent by the Russian Emergency Ministry is participating in rescue operations in the disaster zone. In the past 24...
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Russian feta cheese was recognized as one of the best cheeses in the world, RIA Novosti reports. It won in the "Original Greek taste" category. The gold medal was awarded to Yuri Iliadi, who heads the Druzhba group of companies. It...
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The memory of Soviet soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the country was honored in Slovenia, TASS reports. The memorial ceremony took place the day before, on July, 22, in Vrhnika. It was timed to the anniversary of the formation of...
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