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A poster purportedly from the Islamic State (IS) group has been circulated on social media threatening attacks on Russia, days after the Islamist group claimed responsibility for the storming of a concert center in Moscow. The poster has been circulated by Iranian media, citing Al Azaim, a propaganda network of IS-Khorasan, which said it was behind Friday's attack on the Crocus Center in the

For many Russians, the massacre at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday night brought to mind shootings and bombings across the country in recent decades, events that the authorities often described as terrorism. The authorities linked many of those attacks to Russia’s wars against Chechen separatists in the 1990s and 2000s. Those conflicts helped enable the rise of Vladimir V.

STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — UConn students and lawmakers are standing up against repeated vandalism on campus. The Ukrainian Student Association said their flag vigil and ribbons have been defaced and now want the incidents to be investigated as potential hate crimes. Over the last five weeks, Ukrainian flags have been repeatedly marked with Russian pro-war messages. News 8 first reported this

Russian President Vladimir Putin described the war in Ukraine as having “an element of a civil war,” in the midst of an unusual acknowledgement that Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting to repel his invading forces. “What is happening is, to a certain extent, an element of a civil war,” Putin told Tucker Carlson, the ousted Fox News host who was granted an interview in the Kremlin. “