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Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was moved from the Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum to Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral despite protests by the museum community.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made no breakthrough on June 4 in talks about Sweden's membership in the military alliance with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with officials from the two countries to meet on June 12 to try to bridge their differences.

Popular Russian singer Zemfira, who left the country because of her opposition to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, was spotted at the French Open on June 4 sitting in the player's box of her compatriot Daria Kasaktina.

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Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said Russia's latest missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital failed to "sow panic" among the population but instead created more "anger" and "hatred" against Moscow. Klitschko made the comments to Current Time on May 29 after explosions echoed in the skies above Kyiv as Russian forces carried out rare daytime strikes.

People in Russia's Belgorod border region have been at the forefront of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine since the very beginning. Nerves were already fraying even before last week's cross-border raid by militants aligned with Ukraine’s government.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty may seem like a Cold War relic, but with the war in Ukraine, the broadcaster is again being counted on to transmit straight news into areas where free press is challenged.

A teenager in the southern Russian city of Volgograd allegedly burned a Koran near a mosque. Authorities soon took the odd step of transferring the case to the Muslim-majority region of Chechnya -- a move some believe is a bid to boost the Kremlin's narrative of a war against a "satanic West."

Authorities in the Netherlands have seized land belonging to the Dutch former son-in-law of Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a criminal investigation, The Guardian reported Thursday.

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