Charles Maynes
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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.
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Russia launched an actress and a director into space to try to beat the U.S. in producing the first movie filmed in orbit. The story centers on a doctor who rushes to save the life of a cosmonaut.
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A descendant of the czarist Romanov dynasty was married in the first royal wedding in over 100 years — kicking off a weekend of lavish events that sparked public curiosity, awe and derision.
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Veterans of the Soviet Union's unsuccessful intervention in Afghanistan give their views about the U.S. experience there. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989. The U.S. pulled out last month.
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The European Court of Human Rights says Russia's government is responsible for the 2006 killing in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent turned exiled dissident.
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Russia's three days of voting for its parliament and city governments begin Friday. This political season has seen unusual tactics to keep Putin's opposition from running and off the ballot entirely.
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The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin is in isolation following four members of his entourage testing positive for COVID-19.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Biden on Tuesday — as the embattled Ukrainian leader tries to keep the U.S. focused on his country's confrontation with Russia.
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On August 19, 1991, Russians awoke to looping videos of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake on Soviet state TV — a sure sign something seismic was up.
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The collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban's return to power are getting different responses from around the world. We hear from reporters in Paris, Beijing and Moscow.
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Russia had a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, so while taking some satisfaction in the U.S. failure, it's not gloating. Instability in the region is a danger to Russia's Asian neighbors.
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Forty years ago in the Soviet Union, a group of underground musicians opened a venue where they and their friends could perform. The Leningrad Rock Club remains a legend of Russian counterculture.