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One in two decrees signed by President Vladimir Putin in 2023 was classified, the independent news website Mediazona reported Tuesday, marking a new annual record for the number of "secret" decrees made during the Russian leader's time in power.  Presidential decrees in Russia are numbered sequentially at the start of each year, and Mediazona said it calculated that 49.5% of Putin's decrees in 2023 were classified by counting the number of missing documents from publicly av...

Almost one-half of the presidential decrees signed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin last year were done in secret, a local media outlet said, more than any other year on record.

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has rejected calls for an international probe into alleged voting irregularities during recent parliamentary and municipal elections that sparked weeks of opposition-led protests demanding the vote be annulled.

Pressure against a raft of Russian celebrities who attended an “Almost Naked” party at a Moscow nightclub continues to mount, with participants in the soiree issuing public apologies and at least one ordered jailed. Much of the official backlash has focused on the supposed lack of decorum of the December 21 event amid Russia’s ongoingPressure against a raft of Russian celebrities who attended an “Almost Naked” party at a Moscow nightclub continues to mount, with participants in the soi...

Russian celebrities are scrambling to apologize for attending an “Almost Naked” party as the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine grinds on. A quarter-century ago, Vladimir Putin visited a St. Petersburg strip club as Russian forces fought a bloody campaign in Chechnya.

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Tuesday said it arrested an ex-fighter of the slain Chechen guerilla leader Shamil Basayev, who was accused of launching attacks on Russian soldiers that precipitated the Second Chechen War in 1999.  In recent years, Russian authorities have periodically reported on the arrests of former Basayev fighters in regions across the North Caucasus.   Basayev, who was behind several high-profile rebel attacks in Russian cities throughout the 1990s, was k...

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