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The Russian city of Ulan-Ude will no longer hold direct mayoral elections and instead select its local political leader through a council of electors, the regional assembly of Far East Russia’s republic of Buryatia announced Thursday.
Battalion members have said they wanted to fight as they felt mistreated as ethnic minorities in Russia and because they opposed the invasion of Ukraine.
Sputnik/Sergei Savostyanov/Pool via ReutersTucker Carlson did all that he could to impress the Russian authoritarian Vladimir Putin: he asserted that Russia is not an expansionist power, claimed that Moscow is better than any American city, posed in a Buryat costume and lobbied against continued US aid to Ukraine.Nevertheless, Putin was not impressed. He told interviewer Pavel Zarubin this week, “Sincerely speaking, I didn’t fully enjoy this interview.”“Frankly, I thought he would behave aggress