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Old-fashioned baby names offer a unique blend of tradition and personality, and many of these classic names are also making a ...

Russian national Olga Dorokhina, a member of the organization "Wife and Mother of a Hero. Crimea," spoke with Vladimir Putin ...

Adoptions of Russian children by foreigners came to a complete halt in 2024, while domestic adoptions continued to decline, ...

Slowly but surely, my child forced me to step outside myself, to break from the relentless self-focus that had contributed to ...

A Sheffield animal farm is inviting the public to name its latest arrival - a baby llama. The three-week-old male was born at ...

While most Hollywood movies don’t care enough about Eastern European characters to even get the names right ... authentic native dialogue and casting Russian celebrity actors.

LONDON — The British government is promising to ban Russian oligarchs with links to the Kremlin from entering the U.K. as part of its latest set of sanctions marking three years since Russia's full- ...

was renamed Pushkinskaya in honor of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. Last July, it reverted to its original name as part of an ongoing "decolonization" process in the country. A monument to ...

BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Germany's interior ministry on Friday warned of a Russian disinformation operation attempting to influence the country's federal election campaign with fake videos ...

The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value since Putin first invaded Crimea in 2014, and over $600bn of the Kremlin’s foreign currency reserves have been frozen in Western banks.