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            <title><![CDATA[Belarusian Leader Pardons 31 Ukrainians Under Accords With Trump]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:58:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kazakhs Target Single-Digit Inflation With Key Rate at Record]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Tests New Cruise Missile, Dmitriev Holds Talks in US]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:59:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Says It Is No Longer Bound by Intermediate Missile Moratorium]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Sees Harvest, Imports Pushing Potato Price Down in July]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 11:06:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Raises 2025 Deficit Target on Lower Revenue Expectations]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:54:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Holds Key Rate as Nabiullina Vows to Curb Inflation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:43:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Says One Person Dies as Black Sea Storm Strikes Tankers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:17:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chechen Leader Kadyrov Says Musk Remotely Disabled Cybertruck]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:18:23 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned Sputnik agency, Vladimir Putin meets with Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny, on Aug. 20.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Says Russia Forced to Respond to Ukraine Energy Attacks]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:26:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: EBRD Nears Capital Boost to Aid Reconstruction]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:11:58 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A worker on an elevated platform attends to the exterior of a damaged building in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. Though Chernihiv -- which suffered massive shelling at the start of Russia&apos;s invasion, leaving homes, businesses and civilian infrastructure in ruins -- has begun clean up and reconstruction, it remains vulnerable to attack, sitting less than 50 km (31 miles) from the border with Belarus, and 100 km from Russia.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: Zelenskiy Hails EU Decision on Membership Talks]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:22:57 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Ursula von der Leyen and Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Nov. 4.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: EU Weighs Sanctions Hitting $5.3 Billion in Trade]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-31/ukraine-recap-zelenskiy-discusses-support-with-us-congressmen</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:48:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: Yellen Says Biden Will ‘Fight’ for Ukraine Aid]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:13:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: Zelenskiy Visits Romania; Finland Gas Pipe Leak]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:27:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: Biden Worries That US House Turmoil Endangers Aid]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/ukraine-recap-russia-says-intercepted-drones-over-three-regions</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 06:46:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: EU Faults Musk’s X Over Russian Disinformation]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/ukraine-recap-eu-trade-chief-says-china-s-stance-hurts-commerce</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:19:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: Zelenskiy Pledges a Big Defense Budget Next Year]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:34:52 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Vladimir Putin greets Kim Jong Un at Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region, Russia, on Sept. 13.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: Attack on Russian Warship Disrupts Black Sea Hub]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-04/ukraine-recap-russian-black-sea-port-halts-traffic-after-attack</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:41:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Recap: NATO Says It’s Stepping Up Black Sea Surveillance]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:47:03 GMT</pubDate>
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