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Cars in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, drive past a building decorated with a huge letter “Z,” which has become a symbol of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, along with a hashtag reading, "We don't abandon our own." The symbols serve as reminders of the conflict that has dragged on for a year. (AP Photo, File)

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Russia's year of war: Purge of critics, surge of nationalism
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Sun,02/19/23-1:36AM , 90 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow's nights display few signs of a nation at war.

Cheerful crowds packed restaurants and bars in the Sretenka neighborhood on a recent Saturday night, watched by officers marked as “tourist police.” Nearby, a top-hatted guide led about 40 sightseers to a 300-year-old church.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech at a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. As Russia faces mounting setbacks in Ukraine, Putin appears to have delegated delivering unpopular news to others — a tactic he has already used during the coronavirus pandemic. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Where's Putin? Leader leaves bad news on Ukraine to others
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Fri,11/18/22-1:14AM , 56 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Russia's top military brass announced in a televised appearance that they were pulling troops out of the key city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, one man missing from the room was President Vladimir Putin.
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Flame and smoke rise from the Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and the Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, in Kerch, Crimea, Oct. 8, 2022. Russian authorities say a truck bomb has caused a fire and the partial collapse of a bridge linking Russia-annexed Crimea with Russia. Three people have been killed. The bridge is a key supply artery for Moscow's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. (AP Photo/File)

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Kremlin war hawks demand more devastating strikes on Ukraine
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Tue,10/11/22-1:21AM , 105 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow's barrage of missile strikes on cities all across Ukraine has elicited celebratory comments from Russian officials and pro-Kremlin pundits, who in recent weeks have
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People walk next to their cars queuing to cross the border into Kazakhstan at the Mariinsky border crossing, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Officials say about 98,000 Russians have crossed into Kazakhstan in the week since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine. (AP Photo)

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Over 194,000 Russians flee call-up to neighboring countries
By DASHA LITVINOVA - Associated Press
Tue,09/27/22-9:18AM , 152 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — It took Vsevolod four days to drive from Moscow to Russia's southern border with Georgia. He had to abandon his car at one point and continue on foot.
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