TASS/. The multi-ethnic world that has emerged in Russia needs to be protected as a strategic element of national security amid growing foreign challenges, Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker ...
It is instead referred to merely as a ‘special operation’, with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov stating with a straight face in the weeks after the invasion that Russia had not even attacked ...
The Baltic country, with a population of 1.3 million, has an ethnic Russian minority of around 296,000, of which an estimated 80,000 hold Russian citizenship. Estonia is also home to 3,000 Belarusian ...
It has a large ethnic Russian minority and the Kremlin also controls Transnistria, a region of Moldova that broke away after a war in the 1990s. Ms Sandu won the first round of voting a fortnight ...