Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans in Russia couldn't vote
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A Russian woman who made global headlines after being found living in a cave in India with her two young daughters has flown back to her country, an official told the BBC. Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters - aged six and five - were rescued on 9 July by policemen on a routine patrol in a forest in the southern state of Karnataka.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that there were "many" people living in Ukraine's southern regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv who wanted to "link their fate to Russia" but were afraid to speak out.
Russians living in the Belgorod region of Russia got a taste of what Ukrainians have been enduring for over three years of war last night, after they spent it without power, hot water or internet. Ukrainian forces set the Belgorod power plant ablaze with US-made Himars missiles after the Trump administration reportedly gave Kyiv the green light to target Russia’s energy grid with American weapons during the UN summit last week.
Moldovans are heading to the polls to cast ballots in a tense parliamentary election plagued by claims of Russian interference, a vote seen as a choice between integration with the European Union or a drift back into Moscow’s fold.
A Russian woman who was found living in a cave in coastal Karnataka with her two minor daughters has returned to Russia, according to Vice-president of the Human Rights Defence Committee Ivan Melnikov.