Category: World

A cargo ship owned by a Chinese company has arrived at the port of Sevastopol for the first time since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, as reported by the Financial Times on Tuesday, referencing satellite images, photographs, and transponder data. This occurrence of a foreign tanker making multiple stops at Sevastopol—a site […]

Poland is set to reopen its border with Belarus this week, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Tuesday, two weeks after it was closed during military exercises led by Russia. The border closure was initially declared on September 9 in anticipation of the Zapad-2025 drills, in which Russian and Belarusian forces staged a simulated conflict […]

Former lawmaker of the Kursk region, Maxim Vasilyev, has confessed to bribing the imprisoned former deputy governor amid an expanding corruption investigation linked to border defense construction, as reported by state media on Sunday. Vasilyev is alleged to have given 8 million rubles (approximately $95,500) to Alexei Dedov, the former deputy governor of the Kursk […]

Officials appointed by the Kremlin in annexed Crimea have accused Ukraine of conducting a nighttime drone assault that resulted in the deaths of three individuals and injured over a dozen others. Simultaneously, authorities from southeastern Ukraine reported that Russian airstrikes claimed the lives of at least three people. Sergei Akysyonov, the head of the annexed […]

Wages at Russian defense companies decreased last month for the first time since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, even as average pay across the country continued to rise, according to a report by the exiled news platform Novaya Gazeta Europe. Analyzing nearly 600,000 job listings from 1,200 military enterprises on the job site hh.ru, Novaya […]

Russian customs and law enforcement agencies announced on Friday that they had confiscated over 1.5 metric tons of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment from Ecuador, marking the largest drug seizure in the country’s history. The Federal Customs Service and the FSB (Federal Security Service) reported that the illicit cargo, valued at over 20 billion […]

On Wednesday, the Russian Finance Ministry put forward a proposal to increase the country’s value-added tax (VAT) from 20% to 22% starting next year. This move is part of a new three-year budget strategy intended to address escalating defense and security expenditures. According to the business publication Kommersant, which initially released but later retracted a […]

Russia has requested that the United Nations’ aviation authority consider lifting sanctions related to spare parts and overflights that were imposed due to the invasion of Ukraine, as reported by Reuters on Monday, referencing documents and a knowledgeable source. In a working document reviewed by Reuters, Russia contended to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) […]

On Thursday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the arrest of three individuals believed to have attempted to assassinate a defense industry executive using a car bomb in St. Petersburg. According to the FSB, all three suspects are Russian nationals and allegedly operated under the guidance of a handler linked to a “Ukrainian terrorist organization” […]

Tara Reade, a former staff member of the U.S. Senate who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault during the 2020 election campaign and subsequently moved to Russia, received Russian citizenship on Monday. A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin identified “McCabe Alexandra Tara, born February 26, 1964,” as a newly minted Russian national. Reports from […]