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Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least 16 and traps others in damaged buildings. Russian forces have launched a massive aerial attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, killing at least 16 civilians and wounding over 100.
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Ukraine war briefing: Ending war before winter ???correct and realistic???, says senior Kyiv aide. Budanov backs Zelenskyy call to capitalise on Kyiv???s strong position on battlefield; Kyiv under heavy attack into Tuesday morning. What we know on day 1,560
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Massive Russian attack on cities across Ukraine kills at least 16 people. An eight-year-old boy and a woman pulled from the rubble of an apartment block are among those killed, officials say.
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Armenian PM rejects Russia???s demand for EU referendum as relations nosedive. Russia is raising the pressure on Armenia as traditional ally looks to the West.
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Kalinskaya beats Potapova in a super tiebreak to reach her first French Open quarterfinal. Anna Kalinskaya of Russia has advanced to the French Open quarterfinals for the first time. She defeated Anastasia Potapova of Austria 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 on Monday.
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French navy seizes Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic. President Macron says ship subject to sanctions and posts video of operation that took place with UK support
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French navy, backed by the UK, intercepts Russian oil tanker. According to France, the tanker, which had sailed from Murmansk, was trying to 'skirt international sanctions'.
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France intercepts sanctioned Russian oil tanker with UK help, Macron says. A British helicopter provided support during the operation on Sunday, the UK ministry of defence says.
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Macron says French Navy, backed by the UK, intercepted a sanctioned tanker from Russia. The French Navy, with UK support, has intercepted another Russia-linked oil tanker under international sanctions.
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Ukraine war briefing: Big drone deal awaits Trump signature, says Zelenskyy. Both sides can use each other???s expertise, Ukrainian president stresses; more Russian oil facilities burning after attacks. What we know on day 1,559
Donald TrumpVolodymyr ZelenskyyPoliticsRussiaUkraineEurope
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Ishim. The Ishim is a river running through Kazakhstan and Russia. It is 2,450 kilometres (1,520??mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 177,000 square kilometres (68,000??sq??mi). Its average discharge is 56.3 cubic metres per second (1,990??cu??ft/s). It is a left tributary of the Irtysh. The Ishim is partly navigable in its lower reaches. The upper course of the Ishim passes through Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. In Russia, the course of the river travels through a vast marshland, and has countless meanders and oxbow lakes. The river freezes from late November until March.
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Dnieper. The Dnieper or Dnepr, also known as the Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately 2,200??km (1,400??mi) long, with a drainage basin of 504,000 square kilometres (195,000??mi2), it is the longest river of Ukraine and Belarus and the fourth-longest river in Europe, after the Volga, Danube, and Ural rivers.
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Russian Academy of Arts. Russian Academy of Arts is the State scientific Institution of Russian Federation, eligible heir to the USSR Academy of Arts. A founder of RAA is the Government of the Russian Federation.
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Yauza. The Yauza is a river in Moscow and Mytishchi, Russia, a left and largest tributary of the Moskva in the Russian capital. It originates in the Losiny Ostrov National Park northeast of Moscow, flows through Mytishchi, enters Moscow in the Medvedkovo District and flows through the city in an irregular, meandering, generally north-south direction. The Yauza joins the Moskva River in Tagansky District just west of Tagansky Hill, now marked by the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building. Valleys of the Yauza, from the MKAD beltway in the north to the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway west of Sokolniki Park, are protected as natural reserves.
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Sergey Sobyanin. Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin is a Russian politician, serving as the 3rd mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010. Sobyanin previously served as the governor of Tyumen Oblast (2001???2005), Head of the presidential administration (2005???2008) and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Daugava. The Daugava, also known as the Western Dvina or the V??ina River, is a large river rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia that flows through Belarus and Latvia into the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea. The Daugava rises close to the source of the Volga. It is 1,020??km (630??mi) in length, of which 352??km (219??mi) are in Latvia and 325??km (202??mi) in Russia. It is a westward-flowing river, tracing out a great south-bending curve as it passes through northern Belarus.
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Gulf of Finland. The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and Estonia to the south, to Saint Petersburg???the second largest city of Russia???to the east, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn. The eastern parts of the gulf belong to Russia, and some of Russia's most important oil harbors are located there, including Primorsk. As the seaway to Saint Petersburg, the gulf is of considerable strategic importance to Russia. Some of the environmental problems affecting the Baltic Sea are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf. Proposals for an undersea Helsinki???Tallinn Tunnel through the gulf have been made.
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Europe/Moscow. Timezone
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Moskva River. The Moskva is a river that flows through Western Russia. It rises about 140 kilometers (87??mi) west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through central Moscow. About 110 kilometers (68??mi) southeast of Moscow, at the city of Kolomna, it flows into the Oka, itself a tributary of the Volga, which ultimately flows into the Caspian Sea.
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Central Bank of Russia. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, commonly known as the Bank of Russia or CB, also called the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), is the central bank of the Russian Federation. The bank was established on 13 July 1990. It traces its beginnings to the State Bank of the Russian Empire established in 1860.
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Korean. Korean is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea. In the south, the language is known as Hangugeo and in the north, it is known as Chos??n??. Since the turn of the 21st century, Korean popular culture has spread around the world through globalization and cultural exports. Korean uses the Hangul alphabet.
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Kazakh. Kazakh is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by the Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan, and has official status in the Altai Republic of Russia. It is also a minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China, and in the Bayan-??lgii Province of western Mongolia. The language is also spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs throughout the former Soviet Union, Germany, and Turkey.
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Persian. Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi, is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian, Dari Persian, and Tajiki Persian. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivative of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivative of the Cyrillic script.
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Shkhara. Shkhara is a mountain peak and the highest point in Georgia. It is located on the Georgia???Russia border, in Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria region on the northern side, and the Svaneti region of Georgia in the south. Shkhara is the highest peak of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range since both Elbrus and Dykhtau are located along the side ranges, which lie to the north of it. Shkhara lies 88 kilometres (55??mi) north of Kutaisi, Georgia's second-largest city, and right at the townlet of Mestia. The summit lies in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, south-east of Mount Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain. Shkhara is the third-highest peak in the Caucasus, just behind Dykh-Tau.
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