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A worker cleans a speaker's podium as Russian President Vladimir Putin seen on a screen in the background at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 4, 2021. Russia’s showpiece investment gathering begins Thursday, June 16, 2022 and organizers are telling foreign participants to be sure to bring cash — not necessarily for making investments, but for spending money. The advice for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a quiet acknowledgment of the economic difficulties Russia faces as it tries to promote itself to international businesses. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, file)

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Russia's economic forum to be far smaller but moves forward
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Wed,06/15/22-3:57AM , 179 Reads
MOSCOW (AP) — Organizers of Russia's showpiece investment gathering are telling foreign participants to be sure to bring cash — not necessarily for making investments, but for spending money.
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People lineup to visit a newly opened fast food restaurant in a former McDonald's outlet in Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 12, 2022. The sign reads 'The Name Changes, Love Remains'. The first of former McDonald's restaurants is reopened with new branding in Moscow. The corporation sold its branches in Russia to one of its local licensees after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

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Russian-owned successor of McDonald's opens in Moscow
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Sun,06/12/22-6:14AM , 242 Reads
MOSCOW (AP) — Three months after McDonald's suspended operations in Russia, hundreds of people streamed into its famous former outlet on Moscow's Pushkin Square as the restaurant reopened Sunday under a Russian owner and a new name.
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A Soviet-era top secret object Duga, an over-the-horizon radar system once used as part of the Soviet missile defense early-warning radar network, seen behind a radioactivity sign in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2018. Among the most worrying developments on an already shocking day, as Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, was warfare at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radioactivity is still leaking from history's worst nuclear disaster 36 years ago. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

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Chernobyl no-go zone targeted as Russia invades Ukraine
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Thu,02/24/22-1:15PM , 214 Reads
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — It was among the most worrying developments on an already shocking day, as Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday: warfare at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radioactivity is still leaking from history’s worst nuclear disaste
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People rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending troops and tanks from multiple directions in a move that could rewrite the world's geopolitical landscape. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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'The worst sunrise in my life': Ukrainians wake to attack
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Thu,02/24/22-4:17AM , 362 Reads
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The missile fragment pierced the ceiling of Mikhail Shcherbakov’s apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. A Russian attack, after weeks of rhetoric and warning signs, had hit home.
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