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Kazakhstan has announced plans to change the nation's name in a bid to break free from decades of Russian political influence.

The Russian Mi-8 civilian helicopter crashed into the sea after disappearing from radars on Thursday. Norwegian rescuers say a wreckage has been found on the ocean floor.

"When the entire world is struggling to decide who's more insane, Kim Jong Un or you #SignsYoureABadPresident," one Twitter user wrote.

The Kremlin-linked "troll farm", Internet Research Agency, bought ads on Facebook and ran popular Twitter accounts to post politically divisive stories and sow discord.

Upon analysis, multiple cybersecurity firms – including Cisco Talos, FSecure and Symantec – have now concluded that an exploit known as 'EternalRomance' helped the malware spread.

Russia first spread the now-debunked conspiracy theory that the CIA killed JFK – proving that it takes more than the declassification of documents to undo the spread of fake news.

The editor of the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazyeta, Dmitry Muratov, says staff will get weapons to protect themselves against attack. 6 of its staffers have been killed.

Russia donated around 5,000 guns and other weapons to the Philippines to fight Islamic terror as the Kremlin also seeks to boost its military presence in Southeast Asia.

A century has passed since the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in search of 'Peace, Land and Bread'.

Ksenia Sobchak unveiled her Russian presidential campaign team insisting she won't sling mud at Vladimir Putin, whom her father mentored.

Female killer, Elena Lobacheva, who took "sexual pleasure" from stabbing her victims has been jailed for 13 years.

Russian politician Sergey Popovich somersaulted into the foam pit and landed on his head, breaking his back in the process, as he son looked on.

A man identified as Ryan Clayton appeared to throw Russian flags at the US President while yelling "Trump is treason".

Mother-of-one Natalia Nemets suffered a horrific death when molten caramel spilled into a huge vat that she was cleaning at a confectionery factory in Russia.

According to Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, the virus now spreading is dubbed "BadRabbit" and is a form of ransomware that locks down machines and demands bitcoin.

The deputy editor-in-chief for Russia's leading news radio station, Tatyana Felgenhauer, has been stabbed by an unknown attacker.

Russian Helicopters, part of Rostec State Corporation, will be undertaking the project.

The revelation comes as Twitter continues to face criticism and political scrutiny over the misuse of its platform by Russia's influence campaign during the 2016 election.

The all-electric bike will be deployed by Russian police during the Fifa World Cup next year.

"According to our intelligence services, the Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other," Bush said.

The mayor of Kaliningrad, Alexander Yaroshuck, has urged locals to avoid violence when the the city hosts World Cup matches next year.

Twitter took nearly a year to shut down @TEN_GOP despite the real Tennessee Republican Party repeatedly alerting them about the bogus account.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that law enforcement agencies will investigate the allegations, but activists say the situation has not improved.

Authorities in Novosibirsk, Siberia, were left unimpressed after a man attached a car to a hot air balloon and flew it over a popular recreation area in the city.

A cave complex in Germany could be the resting place of the luxurious Amber Room which Nazi soldiers looted from Russia during WWII.

Maddened customer unhappy with his haircut slaughtered the stylist in a town just just outside Moscow.

WikiLeaks steadily published thousands of embarrassing emails and documents linked to Democratic officials in the months leading up to the November election.

Russia funds the Taliban in Afghanistan by $2.5m a month through laundered fuel sales, according to the Times who spoke to a treasurer with the group.

The mother-of -one from Omsk, Russia, planned to take her own life following her marital breakdown. however a taxi driver managed to talk her down.

Former ambassador warns that Trump is taking the US in a direction not too dissimilar to that of Putin's Russia.