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Russian FM Sergey Lavrov to visit China as Beijing, Moscow warm up to counter US' tough policy push

Lavrov's visit will take place in the immediate backdrop of the first dialogue between Beijing and Washington after US President Joe Biden came to power and amidst high decibel rhetoric between both the countries

From Moscow to Vijayawada: How generations of Telugu readers grew up on Soviet children’s literature

It is hard to overstate the impact of Soviet children’s literature on its Telugu readers.

Seven dead in Canada plane crash; US-registered, single-engine Piper PA-32 was going from Toronto's Buttonville airport to Quebec City

The US-registered single-engine Piper PA-32 departed Toronto's Buttonville Airport and was apparently headed to Quebec City

UK spy poisoning: Clean up starts in city of Salisbury, officials say work expected to take several months

A clean-up operation in the British city of Salisbury where a former Russian spy was poisoned began Tuesday, with officials saying the nerve agent used was delivered in "liquid form" and small quantities.

UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats over poisoning of former Soviet spy and daughter

Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats — the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War — and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in an English town.

Vladimir Putin laughs off Washington's 'Kremlin list', says US move would further worsen ties

President Vladimir Putin laughed off a US list of Russians tapped for possible sanctions, joking that he was offended his name was not on it, but nevertheless branded it an "unfriendly act"

Vladimir Putin speaks at memorial to victim of purges, condemns Soviet-era political repressions

Russian president Vladimir Putin has strongly denounced Soviet-era political repressions.

Stanislav Petrov, Soviet military officer who 'saved the world' from nuclear war, dies at 77

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as "the man who saved the world" for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false missile warning at the height of the Cold War, has died at 77.

Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov, an ex-Soviet strongman critically ill

Long lambasted for brutally crushing dissent, Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has kept a stranglehold on power for over 25 years

In freezing temperatures, hundreds gather in Lithuania to mark 25th anniversary of Soviet crackdown

Hundreds of people gathered in Vilnius in freezing temperatures to honor the 14 people killed when Soviet troops and tanks moved into a crowd of protesters outside a TV tower on 13 January, 1991.