Lucy Papachristou

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Such meetings between Western diplomats and senior Russian officials have become rare since the invasion of Ukraine

​A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber plane crashed on Monday ⁠during a training flight in Siberia's Irkutsk region, the ⁠Russian ​Defence Ministry ⁠said, the Interfax news agency ⁠reported.

Vyacheslav Khasanov, 37, the club's owner, received a seven-year jail term and was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million roubles

Russian authorities have detained a blogger who criticised president Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine and fined an anti-war politician, as Moscow sent a warning signal to critics of the Kremlin ahead of September’s parliamentary election.

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By Lucy Papachristou Aug 7 (Reuters) - Armenia will put the head of its ancient Apostolic Church and six senior clerics on trial on Friday

Work on Rustaveli Avenue, the city’s ‌stately central boulevard, began this summer to add pedestrian crossings, improve signage and make other upgrades.

Amid the debris six metres beneath Tbilisi's main thoroughfare, roadworks that have frustrated residents have yielded an archaeological prize: a cache of 10th-century pottery among the ​oldest medieval works ever found in the Georgian capital.

The project has brought traffic chaos and drawn complaints from residents, but it has also given archaeologists a rare glimpse into Tbilisi's past