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Tuesday

After a Russian girl drew an antiwar poster, her dad faces defamation charges

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Wednesday

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after speaking to the media during a signing ceremony following their talks in Moscow on Tuesday. Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption

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Tuesday

West watches Xi-Putin meetings to see what they might mean for the war in Ukraine

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Monday

China's President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a 3-day state visit with Russia's Putin

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Sunday

Putin has made a surprise visit to the occupied city of Mariupol in Ukraine

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Friday

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to a regional governor via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 21, 2022. The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Putin and his children's rights commissioner for possible war crimes. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption

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The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Putin

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In a screen grab of a video clip released by the U.S. Defense Department's European Command, a Russian Su-27 fighter jet flies near a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone, spraying it with what appears to be jet fuel, on Mar. 14 over the Black Sea. Handout/US Defense Department European C hide caption

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on Feb. 4, 2022 Alexei Druzhinn/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Tuesday

An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft flies by during a training mission at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Nov. 17, 2015. Isaac Brekken/Getty Images hide caption

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Despite downed drone, U.S. says it will keep flying near Ukraine

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Wednesday

In this handout photo provided by Swedish Coast Guard, the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea on Sept. 28, 2022 in At Sea. Handout/Swedish Coast Guard via Getty Im hide caption

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Monday

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with investors at the Eastern Economic Forum on Sept. 2, 2016, in Vladivostok, Russia. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images hide caption

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 'Putin's Chef,' has emerged from the shadows with his Wagner Group

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Saturday

Alicia Day, 34, of New York City, was detained by Russian police while walking her pet baby cow, Dr. Calf, on Red Square last month. Courtesy Alicia Day hide caption

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Courtesy Alicia Day

Friday

Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski is seen in the defendants' cage in the courtroom at the start of the hearing in Minsk on Jan. 5, 2023 Vitaly Pivovarchik/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

U.S. and Russia's top diplomats meet at G-20 summit

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks to a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi on Thursday. Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

How life in Russia has changed since its invasion of Ukraine

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Tuesday

Biden and Putin both gave speeches for the anniversary of Russian invasion

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Putin addresses his nation as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the 1-year mark

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in Moscow on February 21, 2023. Dmitry Astakhov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Sunday

Russia reacts to Vice President Harris's comments at the Munich Security Conference

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Wednesday

Thousands of Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine have settled down in Armenia

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Monday

Wednesday

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands next to a Leopard 2 main battle tank of the German armed forces while visiting an army training center in Ostenholz, Germany, on Oct. 17, 2022. David Hecker/Getty Images hide caption

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