The husband and ex-husband of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter have evaded U.S. sanctions on the president’s family because the marriages were never officially registered, the independent Meduza news website and U.S.-funded Current Time outlet reported Friday.

The United States on Wednesday sanctioned Katerina Tikhonova and Maria

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Birds of a feather flock together… and help each other in times of war. 

That was the lesson Umidjon Isaboyev, who shot to fame for impersonating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, learned when impersonators of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin helped him flee Russian attacks on Kyiv last month. 

“It’s not a li

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine on Feb 24., the West responded with a barrage of economic sanctions.

That included cutting seven Russian banks from global financial messaging service SWIFT, stopping them from being able to send and receive money abroad. The move effectively cut the banks

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Russia's Central Bank announced Friday it was cutting its key interest rate, which had been hiked after troops were sent into Ukraine, saying risks to financial stability had "ceased to increase" for now.

The Feb. 24 military operation triggered a litany of Western sanctions on Moscow, sending the ruble into free-fall and accelerating already high

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The alleged mistress of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Svetlana Krivonogikh, is renting out a luxury four-story apartment in St. Petersburg — complete with its own moat, according to a media investigation published Thursday. 

The BBC’s Russian service unearthed the listing on the website of German luxury brokerage Engel - Völkers. The ad pr

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Yulia Ivkina would have preferred her husband to become a carpenter, not a soldier. 

But as the coronavirus pandemic dented the Russian labor market and the newlyweds from the western city of Pskov tried for a baby, 18-year-old Igor Ivkin reasoned a short-term contract in the army was the best option to safeguard his family’s future. 

Igor enlisted

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