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News Articles: Russia

In Los Angeles, gas cost more than $5 a gallon last week. In the rest of the country, gas is a relative bargain at just over $4 a gallon.

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  • Economy

Gas prices surge to above $4 a gallon, near a national record

The prospect that the U.S. and its allies could impose new sanctions on Russian oil pushed energy prices sharply higher. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. hit $4.06 per gallon.

March 07, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
WNBA star Brittney Griner's case is one of three high-profile American detentions in Russia.

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  • World

Russia arrests Brittney Griner; Blinken promises to help all Americans detained there

Speaking in Moldova, Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Americans to leave Russia and vowed to support any American being held by Russia.

March 07, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Granitz
Refugees, mostly women with children, rest inside a tent after arriving at the border crossing, in Medyka, Poland on Sunday.

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  • Europe

Russia sets cease-fire for evacuations amid heavy shelling

A third round of talks is planned for Monday as some of the evacuation routes would funnel civilians toward Russia or its ally Belarus.

March 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Rehina Solodovnik, a 20-year-old student in Ukraine, was also tutoring Russian students online before the war. One sent her a text after the fighting began: ''I am so sorry for our government. I know they won't apologize to you for whatever damage they're doing to your country, but I will instead."

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  • Europe

Nearly 1 million Ukrainians have fled. More than 40 million have stayed — for now

Before the war, Ukrainian Rehina Solodovnik tutored Russian students online. The teaching has stopped, but she's still getting text messages. "I am so sorry for our government," one student said.

March 05, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Women and children from Ukraine arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Evacuations are halted in an area of Ukraine where Russia had pledged a cease-fire

Ukrainian officials said the work to evacuate civilians from two cities had halted amid shelling, just hours after Russia announced the deal.

March 05, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Yevghen Zbormyrsky, 49, is comforted as he stands in front of his burning home after it was shelled in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday. The U.N. Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted to create a top-level investigation into violations committed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 4)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Russia blocked Facebook on Friday citing "discrimination" against state-sponsored media. Here, a smartphone user in Moscow watches a Facebook clip of President Biden on Feb. 25.

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  • Technology

Russia blocks access to Facebook

Russia has cut off access to Facebook inside the country in response to the tech giant's blocking of state-backed media outlets in the European Union.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn and
  • Alina Selyukh
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose during their meeting in Beijing on Feb. 4.

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  • World

The battle for Ukraine could test the limits of closer ties between China and Russia

The Cold War rivals have grown much closer in recent years. But China's ties to Russia are now becoming a bigger liability than Beijing expected.

March 04, 2022
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  • Emily Feng
Video footage showed a fire — later extinguished — at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after it came under Russian shelling early Friday.

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  • Europe

Russian forces in Ukraine attack and seize Europe's largest nuclear power plant

The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog says there was no release of radioactive material after a projectile hit a building at the plant facility.

March 04, 2022
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  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Geoff Brumfiel
A building burns after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 3. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror.

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  • Europe

Putin's war is a nightmare for the Ukrainian people and for Russia, an expert warns

Putin acted out of hubris and "didn't get the politics of Ukraine right" when he decided to invade, says Michael Kimmage, an academic who formerly served at the State Department.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Aeroflot passengers planes are seen parked at Sheremetyevo Airport, outside Moscow, on  Tuesday. Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, said Monday that it suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles because Canada had closed its airspace to Russian planes.

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  • World

A ban of Russian aircraft from U.S. airspace has gone into effect

The FAA's order prohibiting Russian flights from entering U.S. airspace is now in effect. Russia is expected to respond in kind, forcing airlines to take longer routes around the massive country

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • David Schaper
Children Vlada, left, Katrin and Danilo look out from a window of an unheated train carriage of an emergency evacuation train which is travelling from Kharkov to Lviv, as it stopped in the Kyiv railway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Retired 4-star Gen. Phil Breedlove on Ukraine as Russia reports advances

Thursday on Political Rewind: Retired Gen. Philip Breedlove joined the panel today to talk about the unfolding situation in Ukraine. Plus, we talk about the 4,000 Georgia soldiers on their way to Europe as the conflict in Ukraine intensifies. What are the next steps the Biden administration may be considering?

March 03, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 1 more
Over 180 soldiers with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team climb the stairs to a charter airplane at Hunter Army Airfield during their deployment to Germany, Wednesday March 2, 2022 in Savannah, Ga. The division is sending 3,800 troops as reinforcements for various NATO allies in Eastern Europe.

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  • News

'Very hectic': U.S. troops rush to Europe amid war in Ukraine

U.S. soldiers are deploying to Europe amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, some with barely a week's notice to ensure bills would be paid and make arrangements for relatives to take care of their children and pets. Dozens of soldiers from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, boarded a charter flight Wednesday to Germany.

March 03, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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  • Europe

A million people have fled Ukraine as Russia nears takeover of port city

The new total of refugees from Ukraine amounts to a little more than 2% of the country's total population of 44 million.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Jerome Socolovsky and
  • Jonathan Franklin
A woman passes by an Apple store at the GUM department store in central Moscow on April 27, 2021. Apple said this week that it's pausing the sale of its products in Russia.

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  • Business

One by one, global companies are cutting their ties to Russia

Companies ranging from General Motors to UPS are exiting or reducing their operations in Russia as wide-ranging sanctions make it all but impossible to operate in the country.

March 02, 2022
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  • David Gura
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