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The Moscow City Court has upheld the decision of a lower court to withdraw the licenses of the Novaya gazeta newspaper and its Novaya rasskaz-gazeta magazine, two of the last independent media outlets in the country, amid a crackdown on the free press during the Kremlin's war against Ukraine.

The leader of Russia's Republic of Tyva in Siberia, Vladislav Khovalyg, has sent his representatives to parts of Ukraine's Russia-occupied Donetsk region after a group of Tyvan men mobilized to fight with the Russian armed forces invading Ukraine complained of ill treatment.

A noted sociologist in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Iskander Yasaveyev, has been sentenced to three days in jail on a charge of inciting hatred because of an analysis he wrote about Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Slumping energy revenues and soaring expenditures pushed Russia's federal budget to a deficit of 1.76 trillion rubles ($24.78 billion) in January amid Western sanctions and the cost of the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine and Russia are among the countries that immediately pledged to send rescuers and other aid after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria in the early hours of February 6.

They recorded a video message.

The XBB.1.5 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus strain, nicknamed Kraken, has properties that help it effectively elude the immune protection but its active spread is unlikely, the press service of Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing told

The relationship between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan had been strained, but a string of new deals has helped turn things around

In a speech at the signing of a historic border agreement between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek, Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoev heaped prai...

A historic border agreement signed by Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan looks like the basis for growing cooperation between the two countries. But some in Kyrgyzstan have reservations about agreements struck with a larger, more powerful neighbor that was not always so friendly.