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Vladimir Putin has ordered strippers and pole dancers to be sent to the front line in a move to cheer up his troops and boost morale.   The move comes as the Kremlin announces a medal for all Russian soldiers which have deployed in what he calls the “special military …

UEFA have stripped Russia of hosting rights for the season-opening European Super Cup, because of the country’s ongoing war in Ukraine.   The city of Kazan, was due to stage the game between the winners of this season’s Champions League and Europa League. But due to the conflict between the two neighbouring countries, UEFA have decided …

A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange that the justice department says became a haven for the proceeds of criminal activity has been arrested, federal officials said on Wednesday. Anatoly Legkodymov, who lives in China, was arrested on Tuesday night in Miami and was due in court on a …

Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from the Australian Open tennis tournament after a courtside incident on Monday, January 16.   Tennis spectators were initially permitted to bring Russian or Belarusians flags into Melbourne Park on the condition they would not cause “disruption” due to the furore in the …

Belarusian and Russian flags have been banned from the Australian Open, the governing body for tennis in Australia said on Tuesday, after fans displayed a Russian flag at a first-round match between a Russian and Ukrainian player a day earlier. Tennis — along with sports such as figure skating, and …

Russian actor, Artur Smolyaninov is now classified as a “foreign agent” and faces criminal investigation after speaking against his home country’s invasion of Ukraine.   The actor was the star of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s favorite films.   Smolyaninov was the hero of “Devyataya Rota” (The 9th Company), a Russian feature film …

 The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40 on Monday, January 16 with dozens more missing, making it the deadliest civilian incident since Moscow started attacking civilian targets three-months ago.  Ukrainian officials acknowledged on Monday there is little hope of finding …

Russia has launched a new barrage of missiles at targets across Ukraine, killing at least 12 people in the eastern-central city of Dnipro and disrupting power supplies in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, officials said. The attacks on Saturday smashed a nine-storey apartment block in Dnipro, reducing an entire section …

A third Russian national has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in India in the space of two weeks.   Sergey Milyakov, 51, chief engineer of a cargo ship in Odisha, an eastern Indian state, was found dead in his room aboard the vessel, with no cause of death released. …

Hundreds of Russian mobilised troops were killed in a Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a barracks in Russian-occupied Makiivka in the eastern Donbas region, minutes before midnight on December 31.  The attack happened as Russian missiles and drones rained down on Kyiv, Ukraine at the exact moment Russian president Vladimir Putin …