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JCB identifies Russia as a key growth market for European merchants as cardmembers continually increase online spend

October 21, 2021

London and Moscow, Oct 21, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., has found a notable 20% increase in ecommerce spend by Russian cardmembers from 2019 to 2020.[i]Further, Russian JCB cardmember data shows that from 2019 to 2020,...

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Report: FB could face hefty fine in Russia over banned content

October 1, 2021

In this photo illustration, a Facebook feed page is displayed on a smartphone in Virginia, the United States, on March 25, 2020. (OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) MOSCOW - Russia may try to fine social media giant Facebook 10 percent of its annual Russian turnover for a repeated failure to delete content...

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Russian spy chief accuses UK of lies after new nerve attack charge

September 24, 2021

This still taken from CCTV and issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Sept 5, 2018, shows Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov on Fisherton Road, Salisbury, England on March 4, 2018. British prosecutors charged the two Russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his...

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Space agency: Smoke detected in Russian module on space station

September 10, 2021

This handout photograph taken on July 29, 2021 and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on July 30, 2021, shows the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka" (Science) being docked next to the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on the International Space Station (ISS). (OLEG NOVITSKY / RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY ROSCOSMOS /...

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Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module

August 31, 2021

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US imposes fresh sanctions against Russia

August 22, 2021

Photo taken on March 16, 2020 shows the White House Visitor Center in Washington DC, the United States. (LIU JIE/XINHUA) WASHINGTON - The United States on Friday announced new sanctions against Russian individuals and entities over the alleged poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and the Nord Stream 2 gas...

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Russia reports pressure drop in space station service module

August 2, 2021

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Putin: Russian navy can carry out ‘unpreventable strike’

July 27, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg on July 25, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) MOSCOW - The Russian navy can detect any enemy and launch an "unpreventable strike" if needed, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, weeks after a UK warship angered Moscow by passing...

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EU rejects Merkel-Macron call for leaders’ talks with Putin

June 26, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via a teleconference call, at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on June 23, 2021. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) European Union leaders rejected an appeal from Germany and France to hold formal talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, handing Angela...

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German prosecutors arrest man on suspicion of Russian espionage

June 22, 2021

The German flag flys outside the Reichstag, the building which houses the Bundestag (the German lower house of parliament) on Feb 24, 2021 in Berlin. (DAVID GANNON / AFP) BERLIN - German prosecutors on Monday said they arrested a university research assistant accused of working for the Russian secret service....

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Russian ambassador ‘to resume work in US next week’

June 18, 2021

This file photo taken on Nov 18, 2019 shows Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov delivering a speech in Washington, DC. (MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) MOSCOW - Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, will resume his duties in Washington next week after...

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Kremlin: Deals at Putin-Biden summit unlikely but talks useful

June 16, 2021

This combo photo shows US President Joe Biden (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (PHOTOS / XINHUA) MOSCOW - A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden in Geneva on Wednesday is unlikely to yield concrete deals but the talks will still be useful, a...

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Russia to quit 1992 accord that eased travel curbs with US

June 3, 2021

In this file photo taken on April 21, 2021 two police officers patrol at Red Square in central Moscow. (KKIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) Russia plans to announce its withdrawal soon from a post-Cold War agreement with the United States that eased restrictions on diplomats traveling around each other's countries, Russia's...

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Lavrov, Blinken agree to meet in Iceland next week

May 15, 2021

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday agreed to meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 20 on the sidelines of an Arctic Council meeting. The announcement－after the top diplomats spoke by phone－came amid the biggest crisis in ties between Russia and the United...

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Putin signs decree to counter actions by ‘unfriendly’ nations

April 25, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the virtual World Economic Forum via video link in Moscow, Russia, Jan 27, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree on countermeasures to "unfriendly actions" of foreign states amid an intensified diplomatic row with the United States...

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Russia expels 5 Polish diplomats in retaliation

April 24, 2021

MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday that it is expelling five staffers of the Polish embassy in Moscow in response to the expulsion of three Russian diplomats from Warsaw last week. ALSO READ: Russia expels 2 Bulgarian diplomats The ministry said in a statement that it summoned Polish...

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Russia expels 2 Bulgarian diplomats

April 21, 2021

A tourist boat floats on the Moskva river in front of the Kremlin in downtown Moscow on Dec 9, 2019. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP) MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it is expelling two diplomats of the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow in tit-for-tat retaliation. The ministry summoned...

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Biden imposes sanctions on Russia, restricts buying new debt

April 16, 2021

This undated file photo shows the White House in Washington, DC (AL DRAGO / BLOOMBERG) MOSCOW - The Biden administration imposed a series of new sanctions on Russia, including restrictions on buying new sovereign debt, in retaliation for alleged misconduct related to the SolarWinds hack and efforts to disrupt the...

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Italy expels two Russian officials over ‘extremely serious’ spying

April 1, 2021

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, speaks while standing near German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) ROME - Italy has expelled two Russian officials involved in suspected spying, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Wednesday after summoning the Russian ambassador...

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Germany charges man with spying on parliament for Russia

February 26, 2021

The German flag flys outside the Reichstag, the building which houses the Bundestag (the German lower house of parliament) on February 24, 2021 in Berlin. (DAVID GANNON / AFP) Germany’s Federal Prosecutor charged a man for handing over information about the layout of the nation’s parliament in Berlin to a...