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The BRICS Film Festival, now in its eighth year, kicked off in Russia on Friday as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. It is an annual event organized by the rotating presidency of the BRICS countries. The Moscow program features eight films from Russia, India, China, Brazil, Iran, South …

The International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian National Olympic Committee (NOC) this Thursday “with immediate effect” for having placed several organizations in occupied Ukrainian regions under its authority, the organization’s spokesperson announced. This decision automatically deprives the Russian body of Olympic funding, but has no consequences on the possible presence …

Russian authorities have issued a search warrant for Pole Piotr Hofmanskithe, President of the International Criminal Court without specifying the reason. “The Pole is wanted in connection with a criminal investigation,” the Interior Ministry said in its database of wanted persons, according to the state agencies Tass and Ria Novosti. …

Russia, Bamako’s ally, vetoed on Wednesday a UN Security Council resolution extending sanctions against Malians threatening peace in the country, which the Malian junta was demanding be lifted. The resolution which planned to extend for one year the sanctions regime put in place in 2017 against individuals endangering the 2015 …

At least 33 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion and fire at a gas station in Dagestan, a Russian republic in the Caucasus, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the Russian Situations Ministry. emergency. “A total of 102 people were injured as a …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law on Monday July 24 banning sex change operations, local media reported. The text prohibits “any medical intervention” for gender reassignments, including surgical operations and hormonal therapies. Changing the gender designation in identity documents will also be prohibited. The bill had passed …

At least 13 people including 3 children have died after a fighter-bomber plane crashed into a building in the southern city of Yeysk, the Russian Defence ministry said. According to a report from the pilots, who jettisoned from the plane, the reason for the crash was a fire in one …

Russian deputies called on Monday to toughen the law condemning “homosexual propaganda”, a new sign of the hardening of the conservative line of the Kremlin in the midst of an offensive in Ukraine and falling out with Westerners. According to amendments being discussed in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the …

Electricity will be cut in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as Russian forces launch strikes on several towns across the country, the spokesman for the Ukrainian embassy in France has said. This measure, adopted as a preventive measure, aims to reduce the risks for the inhabitants of the capital in the …

At least 13 people including seven children died in a shooting at a school in Izhevsk, a city of 650,000 inhabitants in central Russia, the Russian investigative committee announced on Monday, according to which the assailant committed suicide. “The unidentified suspect was wearing a black Nazi symbolism sweater and a …