Oscar Pistorius released from prison

The disgraced South African athlete has served more than half of his sentence for murdering former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp Oscar Pistorius, the former Olympic athlete known as ‘Blade Runner’ for his use of carbon-fiber prosthetic legs in competitions, has been released on parole from a South African prison, 11 years after he shot his former girlfriend,…

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Putin approves citizenship for foreigners in Russian army

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting the right to obtain Russian passports to foreigners who sign up for service in the country’s Armed Forces or other military units during the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin reported on its website on Thursday.

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Abandoning English ‘stupid’ – Lavrov

Western hostility doesn’t mean Russia should behave like Ukraine, the foreign minister has said Russians should not give up the English language just to spite the West in the way Kiev ditched Russian to spite Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Moscow on Thursday.

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