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Andrei Rublev’s ‘Trinity’ icon temporarily removed from iconostasis at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. Its climate-control chamber is broken.

Andrei Rublev’s Trinity icon, which was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2023, has been removed from the ...
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Five injured after Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Sochi

Ukraine’s military launched a drone attack on Krasnodar Krai overnight on . In Sochi, the regional emergency response ...
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Putin says Moscow has no intention of threatening Europe, then warns that European troops in Ukraine ‘would mean war with Russia’

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia has no intention of threatening European countries, contrary to claims ...
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France’s support for removing Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov from the EU sanctions list sparks ‘huge frustration,’ diplomats tell Euronews

France has backed Slovakia’s proposal to lift sanctions on Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, unnamed European diplomats ...
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At NATO’s doorstep, Russian drones struck a gas station and passenger train near Ukraine’s border with Poland

Russian forces launched drone strikes on a gas station and a train near the Yahodyn border crossing, several kilometers from ...
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Russia’s dominant security agency, the FSB, is reportedly preparing for a leadership shake-up and major overhaul as early as October

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is expected to undergo a major reorganization in the coming months, iStories said, ...
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An undercover German reporter posed as a Putin superfan online. Suspected Russian agents quickly offered her Bitcoin to run local errands.

German journalist Angelique Geray posed as a fan of Vladimir Putin on social media while investigating how covert Russian ...
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A woman in a Russian border city rejected a uniformed man’s advances. Two days later, she says, masked soldiers abducted her and demanded she confess to Ukrain…

A woman living in a major Russian border city says men in military uniforms abducted her, threatened to torture her with ...
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‘Escalation is becoming a fact’: Tusk says Russia may target Ukrainian border crossings after drones hit a Kyiv–Warsaw train and nearby gas station

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk held a special briefing after Russian forces launched drone strikes just a few miles from ...
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With U.S. diesel above $6 a gallon, Trump urges Ukraine to stop targeting Russian production facilities

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking Russian facilities that ...
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Rescuers find the final victim of the Kabardino-Balkaria avalanche, marking Russia’s deadliest mountain disaster since 2002

The body of the 17th person killed in an avalanche in Kabardino-Balkaria has been found, RIA Novosti reported, citing a representative of the regional branch of Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry.
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Andrei Rublev’s 15th-century ‘Trinity’ icon is reportedly warping after its climate-control chamber broke. A German specialist fixed it once but couldn’t return when it ...

The special climate-controlled chamber housing the Trinity icon, which was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2023, broke down several months ago, Ekho and religious affairs researcher ...