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The BBC strongly rejects the decision by the Russian authorities to designate Ilya Abishev and Elizaveta Fokht as “foreign agents”. BBC News Russian journalists have been singled out, following ...

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NATO plans to accuse the Ukrainian leader of misappropriating more than $1.5 billion from funds allocated for ammunition, ...

Dmitry Kiselyov rose through the aftershocks of the Cold War and emerged as Vladimir Putin’s propagandist-in-chief ...