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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

Gold bars representing Russia's central bank gold reserve sales and citizen gold purchases in 2026

Russia’s Citizen Gold Rush Meets a 27% Price Crash — and a State That Was Selling All Along

Russian households bought a record 50 tonnes of gold in 2025, trusting financial advisers who called it the safest asset available. Then the price dropped nearly 27 percent, and it emerged the

June 15, 2026

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US President Donald Trump meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, June 2026

Trump Says Putin and Zelensky Are Both Open to a Deal. The Kremlin Said Otherwise Hours Earlier.

Donald Trump told reporters at the G7 summit in Évian that both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are open to ending the Russian operation in Ukraine — a claim that landed hours after Zelensky publicly said Moscow had once again

June 15, 2026

by Russia Desk

Trump Says Calls With Putin and Zelensky Went Well as G7 Opens in Évian

Donald Trump told reporters in Évian that his back-to-back phone calls with Putin and Zelensky ahead

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews ahead of G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains France June 15 2026

Trump Says Both Putin and Zelensky Are ‘Open’ to Ukraine Settlement After G7 Talks With Macron

Standing beside Emmanuel Macron at the G7 in Évian, Donald Trump said he spoke Sunday with

In Vladimir, they compiled an anti-rating of managers

The head of the Vladimir region named the 5 worst management companies. It is about them at the Housing Inspectorate that the complaints are constantly piling up. People resent the fact that

March 25, 2023

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112: Kostomarov amputated all the fingers of his left hand

Figure skater, 2006 Olympic ice dancing champion Roman Kostomarov survived the amputation of all the fingers of his left hand, reports the Telegram channel 112. As noted, the operation took place on

March 25, 2023

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Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to impose sanctions on Romanian Senator Shoshoaca

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry will impose sanctions on Romanian Senator Diana Shoshoaca as a person “creating a threat to national security”. Yesterday, Shoshoaca presented a legislative initiative to parliament calling for the denunciation

March 25, 2023

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The inventor of Kostroma sells an ecological catamaran

In Kostroma, engineer-inventor Alexei Petrov put up for sale a catamaran, which is actually a house afloat – it is 14 meters long, 8 meters wide and has a draft of only

March 25, 2023

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Saakashvili blamed ‘Russian Georgian special service agents’ for his poisoning

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has said “Russian agents” who allegedly infiltrated Georgian special services were involved in his poisoning, Politico reports. “Russian agents ‘infiltrated the Georgian security services’…I remember the day

March 25, 2023

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Kostroma employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations conducted a demonstrative rescue operation on the spring ice

Yesterday, March 24, the Kostroma Department of the Emergency Situations Ministry held exemplary exercises to rescue a person who had fallen through the ice on the bank of the Kostroma River near

March 25, 2023

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Advisor to Pushilin Gagin: mobilization in Ukraine is concentrated in the east in monstrous forms

Mobilization on Ukrainian territory has taken monstrous forms, said Yan Gagin, adviser to acting DPR leader Denis Pushilin, in a conversation with RIA Novosti. According to him, mobilization activities now take place

October 4, 2025

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Former KGB officer in charge of the 33 regions of GIATN

The corresponding document has already been signed by the head of the region Alexander Avdeev. The other day, Viktor Borisovich Shurygin began to work as the head of the State Administrative and

March 25, 2023

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Georgian President says West does not ask Tbilisi to open a second front against Russia

None of Tbilisi’s Western partners are calling on the Georgian authorities to open a second front against Russia. This statement was made on Friday by the President of the Republic, Salomé Zurabishvili,

March 25, 2023

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Hot summer or prepare for bad weather: folk omens for March 25

On this day, the Church and Orthodox believers honor the memory of Theophanes the Confessor, chronicler and monk of Byzantium. On Theophan’s Day, the peasants continued to celebrate spring and actively observed

March 25, 2023

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Russia’s Citizen Gold Rush Meets a 27% Price Crash — and a State That Was Selling All Along

Trump Says Putin and Zelensky Are Both Open to a Deal. The Kremlin Said Otherwise Hours Earlier.

Trump Says Calls With Putin and Zelensky Went Well as G7 Opens in Évian

Trump Says Both Putin and Zelensky Are ‘Open’ to Ukraine Settlement After G7 Talks With Macron

In Vladimir, they compiled an anti-rating of managers

112: Kostomarov amputated all the fingers of his left hand

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to impose sanctions on Romanian Senator Shoshoaca

The inventor of Kostroma sells an ecological catamaran

Saakashvili blamed ‘Russian Georgian special service agents’ for his poisoning

Kostroma employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations conducted a demonstrative rescue operation on the spring ice

Advisor to Pushilin Gagin: mobilization in Ukraine is concentrated in the east in monstrous forms

Former KGB officer in charge of the 33 regions of GIATN

Georgian President says West does not ask Tbilisi to open a second front against Russia

Hot summer or prepare for bad weather: folk omens for March 25

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