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The Latest Breaking News from Omsk

Burning Man Victim Identified As 'Kind' Russian, Vadim Kruglov: Friends Start Fundraiser To Send Him Home

Russian national Vadim Kruglov has been identified as the man found dead at Burning Man 2025. Friends remember him as a generous soul and are raising funds to repatriate his remains to Omsk, Russia.

International Business Times UK

Freed Putin Critic Recounts 'Miracle' Release In Historic Swap

It has been around six weeks since Vladimir Kara-Murza swapped his prison long-johns and rubber flip flops for sharp suits, but the major opponent of the Kremlin says he is still adjusting to reality.

International Business Times

Putin's 'lover' sent more than 2,000 miles from palaces she shares with dictator

Alina Kabaeva, the dictator’s 39-year-old long-time mistress has traditionally preferred to hide away in Switzerland where she gave birth to one of his children in 2015, say reports

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A year at war

Up to a million Russians have fled the country since the start of the war. But the beauty in new places doesn't lessen the heartbreak of leaving home.

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Russia must boost tank production as West arms Ukraine - ex-president Medvedev

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said during a visit to a tank factory in the Siberian city of Omsk on Thursday that Moscow would increase production of tanks in response to Western arms supplies to Ukraine.

Reuters

Putin loses his 36th colonel in war in Ukraine as top brass toll worsens

Lt-Col Oleg Yevseev, 43, was buried in the Siberian city of Omsk on what would have been his 44th birthday

Evening Standard

Wildfires tear through Russia as Putin faces 'second front' amid escalation in Ukraine

Black doom-laden skies and red flames have engulfed three large regions - Omsk, Tyumen and Krasnoyarsk - while the embattled Russian forces marched on the Donbas region in a new phase of the war

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