A court in southern Russia has ordered the suspension of operations of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a major exporter of oil from Kazakhstan, the company confirmed Wednesday. 

The CPC pipeline’s work will be halted for 30 days due to “irregularities in paperwork guiding elimination of oil spill emergencies” that were uncovered by a gover

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At first, Natalia Kapustnikova refused to tell the group of men in black balaclavas and military uniforms where they could find the priceless 19th-century paintings owned by her museum in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. 

As explosions sounded outside, the men said they were particularly interested in luminous landscapes by Arkhip Kuindzhi, a

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In Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian CaptureIn Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian CaptureIn Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian CaptureIn Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian CaptureIn Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian Capture
In Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian Capture
In Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian Capture
In Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian Capture
In Photos: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in Ruins After Russian Capture
Russia's grinding, hard-fought military campaign in eastern Ukraine has seen major successes in recent weeks as its forces have captured the strategic cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.

The two cities, located in the Luhansk region, are seen as critical to gaining total control over the wider Donbas region, which had been partially

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Three Russian police generals, including an assistant to the country’s Interior Minister, have been detained on charges of misappropriating funds, Russian law enforcementannounced Wednesday.

Lieutenant General Sergei Umnov and two senior colleagues — Major General Alexei Semyonov, head of St. Petersburg’s traffic police, and Major General Ivan Aba

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Russian-installed authorities claim to have blocked access to YouTube and Instagram in southern Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region.

“We shut down YouTube a few days ago,” Sergei Moroz, a video blogger and spokesperson for the local occupation administration, said in a video message posted on Telegram Wednesday.

“We’re now without YouTube or Ins

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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev invoked Wednesday the possibility of nuclear war if the International Criminal Court (ICC) moves to punish Moscow for alleged crimes in Ukraine. 

"The idea to punish a country that has the largest nuclear arsenal is absurd in and of itself," Medvedev, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on

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