The campaign was marked by repeated allegations that Russia and a fugitive Moldovan tycoon were trying to influence the outcome.
Robert Shonov was accused of 'gathering information about the special military operation' in Ukraine.
Russia's central bank hiked interest rates to 21 percent on Friday, taking borrowing costs to their highest level in more than 20 years amid surging inflation.
The meeting in the city of Kazan is the largest diplomatic forum in Russia since Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in 2022, triggering a barrage of Western sanctions and international condemnation.
'I have no strength left,' Mikhail Pichugin told the fishing crew that rescued him off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.
Witnesses and local news outlets said raids took place in Kyiv and other cities, including Kharkiv and Dnipro.
Russia's defense minister Andrei Belousov urged more soldiers to be trained on the weapons, saying they are an effective tool in the fight in Ukraine
The U.S. president later confronted his Russian counterpart about the plan, leading to a heated exchange over the potential for nuclear war.
Residents in Feodosia said a series of powerful blasts rocked the coastal Black Sea city around 4:30 a.m. local time and sent pillars of flame and smoke into the sky.
Stephen Hubbard was accused of serving as a mercenary to defend the eastern city of Izyum following the 2022 Russian invasion.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin he was ready to "expand" cooperation, as the two leaders exchanged congratulations on the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, state media said.
'If we would do this, they would never attack Ukraine. But they did this just because they saw no reaction,' Oleksiy Goncharenko said during a fiery speech.
Video and images released Monday show the plane just feet away from a NORAD aircraft.
The Treasury Department also imposed sanctions on one of the men and a virtual currency exchange operating in Russia
The RS-28 Sarmat, also known as Satan II, was designed to carry 16 independently targetable nuclear warheads to the U.S. and Europe.
A Russian late-night strike on a residential neighborhood of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv wounded 21 people, officials said Sunday
The independent survey also showed only 32% of Russians were prepared to join the fight if ordered by the Defense Ministry
Ukrainian leader will be in the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly
This is the second year in a row that Putin is growing the military.
President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting at the White House where easing the restrictions is expected to be discussed
A Russian strike on Red Cross vehicles in eastern Ukraine killed three people, the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.
The transfer followed months of White House warnings to Tehran against sharing the deadly weapons.
