About 70% of Italian companies operating in Russia did not leave the country following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the president of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce told the RBC news website on Wednesday.

Many Italian firms hesitated to make quick decisions following the invasion, Vincenzo Trani, who is also the founder of the car-sharing

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Russian law enforcement authorities provided an arrest warrant for Sargylana Kondakova, a Yukaghir activist and co-founder of the banished anti-war group Free Yakutia Foundation, media reported Wednesday.Kondakova, who currently resides in Australia, said she discovered of the warrant for her arrest from reporters at the banished news website Mediazona,
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A judge in St. Petersburg bought the century-old bookstorePodpisniye Izdaniya to pay a great of800,000 rubles ($10,000) after it was found to promoteLGBT propaganda, regional media reported Wednesday.Podpisniye Izdaniya was implicated of breaching Russias anti-LGBT laws for offering works by authors like Susan Sontag and Olivia Laing, according to officials. The charges originate from an April search during which law enforcement authorities ordered the bookstore to get rid of 48 books.The Kuibyshevsky District Court discovered the book shop guilty of sharing prohibited content Wednesday afternoon, according to the local news outlet Fontanka.The ruling comes amidst a larger crackdown on independent bookstores throughout Russia. In recent weeks, police has actually raided bookshops in Moscow and Novosibirsk, while three existing and former staff members of Russias biggest publishing house were charged with distributing LGBT propaganda and taking part in extremist activity.Russia initially disallowed LGBT propaganda in 2013 and expanded the restriction in late 2022 to apply to all kinds of media, consisting of books. The law forbids representations of same-sex relationships and what authorities identify non-traditional lifestyles.Although the federal government declares it does not keep a main list of banned literature, reporters and booksellers have actually distributed extensive informal lists. Lots of significant booksellers have actually gotten rid of LGBTQ+ books from their shelves preemptively in an effort to prevent legal repercussions.
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President Vladimir Putin appeared to minimize militarily seizing Ukraine's Sumy region throughout a visit to Russia's southwestern Kursk area, even as the Kremlin claims to be pursuing a worked out end to the war.The moment was caught on video released by the state-run news firm TASS, in which a local authorities from the Glushkovsky district
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Russia has struggled to supply weapons to Armenia due to the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday, while also acknowledging growing tensions between Moscow and Yerevan.

Armenia has traditionally relied on Russia for military support amid its decades-long standoff with neighboring Azerbaijan. But in recent years,

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The Kremlin stated Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile shield was a sovereign matter for the United States, softening its tone after earlier criticism that the strategy could destabilize worldwide security.Trump, who ordered the project a week after his inauguration in January, stated the system would release missile
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