Pro-Putin bloggers are posting propaganda videos from the Ukrainian frontlines — and say they're making big money

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Russian right wing blogger, Roman Antonovsky
Russian blogger Roman Antonovsky.

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Putin is planning another trip to China, report says, a further sign of his dependence on Xi Jinping

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023.

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The Kremlin is trying to stop any under-50s running against Putin for president to avoid drawing attention to his age, report says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the phone in his office in Saint Petersburg on December 15, 2018.

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Ukrainian advisor says Prigozhin's death in a plane crash is a warning that there's no negotiating with Putin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, in July 2023.

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Former Kremlin official blames the ruble's crash on Russia's stockpile of rupees that's stranded in India

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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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EU officials say sanctions against Russia have had 'hard tangible effects,' and that the country's future is bleak

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A video claiming to show Prigozhin's jet plummeting from the sky and the plane's fiery wreckage could be starting points for an investigation into the crash — if a fair investigation is possible, aviation expert says

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Heineken finally cuts ties with Russia 18 months after the Ukraine invasion

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Heineken trucks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Did Putin kill Prigozhin? It's one of 3 possible explanations Russia watchers came up with for the deadly plane crash

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Yevgeny Prigozhin was a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin before staging a failed mutiny against the Russian defense ministry in June 2023.

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Wagner's Prigozhin presumed killed in plane crash after rebelling against Putin

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The Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was thought to be on a plane that crashed north of Moscow. His group staged a rebellion against Russia and Vladimir Putin two months ago.

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