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LIMA (Sputnik) – Russia will not cut budget funds allocated for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank summit in Peru.

"It’s a protected article," Siluanov said answering a q...

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"A year ago when we did this interview, there was some saber-rattling between the United States and Russia on the Ukrainian border," journalist Steve Kroft said to President Obama during a preview for the upcoming CBS segment.

"You said a year ago that the United States – America leads. W...

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The Russian campaign Syria has drawn condemnation from the US and its allies ever since the first bombs were dropped. The launch of 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea on Wednesday was no different.

But while publicly deriding Moscow’s efforts to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic St...

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The senator called the statements of his colleagues ‘reckless and irresponsible,’ criticizing those politicians who said things like they “will not talk with Vladimir Putin.” “To reject any contact and relations with Putin — this is exactly what should not be done,” Rand Paul said.

Click to enlarge the image. Drawing by Dormidont Viskarev

A week has passed since the beginning of the Russian Air Force's air strikes on the positions of Islamic terrorists in Syria, and the resonance of a few dozen attacks has proved louder than that of a few thousand carried out by the U.S.-led coalition over several months....

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The Aerospace Forces of Russia continue to strike positions of the international terrorist organization ISIS in the Syrian territory, Chief of the Russian Air Force's Main Staff Lt. Gen. Igor Makushev has said.

"Sixty-seven combat flights were completed from the Hmeimim airbase in the past 24 hours....

Russia is helping reinforce the capability of the government forces of Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, director of the Second Department of Asian Countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russian presidential representative on Afghanistan, said.

"Afghanistan will receive additional assistance with that in accordance with Russian presidential orders...

Alexander Pushkin arrived at his family estate of Boldino on Sept. 3, 1830, and, due to an outbreak of cholera, could not return to Moscow until December.

The three months Pushkin spent at Boldino were an enormously creative time for the poet – when he wrote the works that became the cornerstone of Russian literature. His m...