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Russian No.16 seed Karen Khachanov is up two sets to love on American qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic, but it hasn’t been without controversy. There was a testy moment in the second set when Khachanov went at Romanian chair umpire Raluca Andrei after she called for a point to be replayed. The …

  Russian President Putin’s ‘body double’ is named for the first time as a fourth-rate carpenter from Belarus      An alleged body double for Vladimir Putin has been named as a ‘fourth-rate carpenter’ from Belarus, claimed to have survived an assassination attempt.     Yevgeny Vasilyevich was identified as the ‘main doppelgänger’ …

The Russian Supreme Court ruling making the “international LGBT movement” an extremist organisation will come into effect on January 9, 2024. Graphic: IPS by Ed Holt (bratislava) Wednesday, January 03, 2024 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jan 03 (IPS) – “This is what you get after ten years of state propaganda and …

The wives and girlfriends of mobilised Russian soldiers have demanded that president Vladimir Putin goes to the frontline ‘and dies’. Protests and demands to end the slaughter in Ukraine have seen a surge throughout Russia as young men continue to die en masse.The women’s protest channel slammed Putin’s reasons for …

Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had a single-word response to former President Donald Trump’s quoting of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, on Saturday, December 16.   Clinton, Trump’s defeated Democratic rival in the 2016 election, shared on X  a …

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will seek re-election in March 2024, state news agency TASS reported on Friday, December 8. Putin made the announcement after a ceremony at the Kremlin, the official residence of the Russian president, TASS said, a move that could see him retain power until at …

A 14-year-old girl shot and killed a classmate and wounded five others before killing herself on Thursday, Dec. 7, at a school in the western Russian city of Bryansk.  Regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz described the shooting as a “terrible tragedy.” He said the five people wounded were all children with …

TIME Magazine has released the shortlist for its Person of the Year 2023, that includes American pop star Taylor Swift, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and British monarch King Charles III among others.      According to the magazine, the famous Person of the Year simply designates the “person, group or concept that …

12 Russian elite marines have died after they blew themselves up while cooking on an open fire next to live ammunition. Eight other marine officers were wounded in the incident. According to Mail Online, an RPG-7 grenade launcher shell caught fire and exploded at Kuzminsky military training ground in Rostov …

Russian President, Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, October 25 oversaw ballistic missile drills from his office, the Kremlin said, hours after Russia moved to revoke its ratification of a landmark nuclear test ban treaty. Moscow’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu also said Russia’s forces would also be practising a “massive” retaliatory nuclear …