At least eight people have been arrested for vandalizing polling stations before the presidential election that could re-confirm Putin after 20 years in power

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  Nearly 700.000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war in Ukraine and as of October, about 1.500 were killed or wounded every day; the figures appear in media reports quoting Sir Tony Radakin, UK Chief of Defence Staff, and Vladimir Putin

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  A Russian court has sentenced Google to pay a fine of $20.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000, a sum higher than the GDP of the entire planet, which amounts to $110.000 billion according to the IMF

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  Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and president of the anti-corruption foundation he created, said she intends to become president of Russia and to continue her husband's struggle

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  Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, President Putin's main political opponent before his death in prison last February, had written in his memoir that he would "die in prison"

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