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Children admire a painting on a sunny beach day in Russia.

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Russia is reportedly making it more painful for businesses to leave by forcing big discounts and raising exit taxes

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Russia says it scrambled fighter jets to intercept 2 US B-52H Stratofortress bombers approaching the Russian border

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A B-52H Stratofortress.

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Russia's economy is so driven by the war in Ukraine that it cannot afford to either win or lose, economist says

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US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says

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Ukrainian SU-27 fighters escorting an SU-24 front-line bomber during an air-force exercise on Starokostyantyniv military air base in October 2018.

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Russia will grow faster than the US and all other advanced economies this year, the IMF says

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

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The Moscow-Beijing alliance is here to stay because partnering with China is the only way Putin can sustain his conflict with the West, think tank says

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Russia could turn on Putin as the nation's economic strength wanes and sanctions keep tightening, economists say

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Forum of Future Technologies in Moscow on February 14, 2024 .

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A truck got stuck underneath an Emirates A380 at a Moscow airport and tore a hole in the fuselage

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Firemen and officials in high-vis jackets surround an Emirates Airbus A380 seen from behind with a yellow truck stuck underneath the fuselage.
The truck wedged underneath the Airbus A380.

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Much of Putin's inner circle thinks Ukraine had nothing to do with the Moscow terror attack, badly undermining him, report says

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