Russian ultra-nationalist who has gotten away with criticizing the Kremlin for years is arrested after calling Putin a 'cowardly mediocrity'

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Igor Girkin stands with his arms folded inside a defendant's cage.
Igor Girkin (Strelkov), the former top military commander of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" and nationalist blogger, detained earlier Friday and accused of extremism, sits inside a glass defendants' cage during a hearing to consider a request on his pre-trial arrest in Moscow on July 21, 2023.

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Putin is trying to buy time with Prigozhin but will get revenge since he is the 'ultimate apostle of payback,' CIA director William Burns says

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Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., July 8, 2022
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., July 8, 2022

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Wheat prices head for biggest single-day gain since Russia invaded Ukraine after fresh attacks on key grain facilities

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Ukrainian navy ships during exercise Sea Breeze 2020 in the Black Sea, July 21, 2020.

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Prigozhin calls Russia's war on Ukraine 'a disgrace' in another public affront despite Kremlin efforts to silence him

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Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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Russia and China's trade relationship has become increasingly lopsided

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Moscow has become increasingly reliant on China as the war in Ukraine drags on.
Moscow has become increasingly reliant on China as the war in Ukraine drags on.

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Russia received millions of dollars worth of equipment from US companies to keep its oil trade afloat after the invasion of Ukraine, report says

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A worker checks a pressure gauge at an oil pumping station near the Rosneft company owned Suzunskoye oil field, north from the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 26, 2015.

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Zelenskyy proposed bombing a Russian pipeline and using long-range missiles to hit targets outside Ukraine's borders, leaked documents show

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Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) speaks to the press in the town of Bucha on April 4, 2022.

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Putin has given up on ambitions to conquer Ukraine after military losses that could take a decade to repair, says US intel

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a government meeting on tourism development in Russia via a video link from Saint Petersburg on May 2, 2023.

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Russia and India reportedly halt talks over using rupees for trade, with Moscow preferring to be paid in Chinese yuan

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A man counts Indian rupee banknotes in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
A man counts Indian rupee banknotes in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Russia may be cheating on its own pledge to slash oil production

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