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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev blasted Russia for attempting to “hush up” its role in the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims it thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate Russian military officers with hidden bombs.

The Kremlin says claims the wife of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad is filing for divorce so she can move to London do not “correspond with reality”, amid claims the couple are under effective house arrest in Moscow after fleeing Syria.

The Ukrainian state outlet Ukrinform, citing government sources, reported on Tuesday that the State Security Service (SBU) of Ukraine was responsible for the assassination of Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow that morning.

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikahil Bogdanov told state media on Thursday that Moscow had made “direct contact” with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the al-Qaeda offshoot that toppled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad last weekend.

Ukraine has claimed the assassination by shooting of a Russian missile scientist in a Moscow suburbs park.

A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring a woman and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia’s busiest airports, while a huge nighttime wave of Russian drones targeted Ukraine, officials reported

Ukraine launched a major drone attack against Moscow and several other Russian cities in one of the largest Ukrainian strikes of the war.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, touching base with the Russian leader three days after returning from a visit to Ukraine.

Moscow came under one of the largest attacks yet by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop using hoodwinked Indian nationals as cannon fodder for his brutal invasion of Ukraine, the feat occurring at a private dinner the two attended Monday night.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Moscow on Monday for a visit that included a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian police cracked down on dissidents who spent Tuesday honoring the memory of Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who died under murky circumstances in a Siberian prison in February.

Russia observed “Victory Day” on Thursday, a holiday commemorating victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The day has become an increasingly strident nationalist spectacle under Vladimir Putin, who has all but erased the U.S. and its allies from memories of the war.

Putin began his fifth term after destroying his political opponents, launching a war in Ukraine, and concentrating all power in his hands.

Russia detained another suspect as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people in March.

A top Russian military official arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe was sent to pre-trial detention Wednesday.

Russian officials on Wednesday continued their attempts to blame the bloody Crocus City Hall terrorist attack on Ukraine and the U.S.

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin claimed on Tuesday that a warning from U.S. intelligence about the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow was ignored because it was “too vague.”

The government of Iran reportedly warned Russia about an impending terrorist attack days before the Crocus City Hall massacre.

Former U.S. action movie star Steven Seagal, now a Russian citizen and Putin supporter, visited three victims of the Moscow terrorist attack.

Wall Street Journal reporter and American citizen Evan Gershkovich marked one year in captivity as a hostage of Russia on March 29.

The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed on Wednesday that the Islamic State’s claim to having orchestrated last week’s Crocus City concert hall massacre in Moscow was “extremely hard to believe.”

The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Tuesday that America, Britain, and Ukraine conspired to execute the slaughter of nearly 140 people at a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow on Friday.

Putin addressed Friday’s terrorist attack that killed at least 137, saying for the first time it was the work of “radical Islamists”. 

French President Emmanuel Macron said he has offered Russia “increased cooperation” to combat terrorism in the wake of the Moscow terror attack.

The Chinese state propaganda Global Times newspaper blamed President Joe Biden’s disastrous extension of the 20-year Afghan war and subsequent Taliban conquest of Kabul for creating the conditions to allow a harrowing terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday, which the Islamic State claimed responsibility for.

France raised its terror threat warning to its highest level on Sunday evening in the wake of the suspected ISIS attack on a Moscow concert hall that left at least 137 dead.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that ISIS-K would love to commit a terror attack in the United States like the one in Moscow that killed at least 133 people.

Vladimir Putin vowed to punish those behind a “barbaric terrorist attack” on a Moscow concert hall and claimed four gunmen were captured trying to flee to Ukraine.

Russia on Saturday said it had arrested 11 people — including four gunmen — over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by ISIS.

Ukraine launched a wave of long-range drones deep inside Russia on Tuesday, Russian officials said, hitting at least two oil facilities.

Media titan Rupert Murdoch is planning to marry again, this time to his 67-year-old girlfriend Elena Zhukova, who is originally from Moscow.

President Joe Biden gaffed at the State of the Union on Thursday by asking those in attendance if they wanted to fly on Air Force One to Moscow, a nation fighting Ukraine, which Biden backs with military support. 

Mourners gathered for the funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny faced a heavy police presence in Moscow on Friday.

Funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place on Friday in Moscow.