Category: World

The former mayor of Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia, has been detained on charges of misusing his position, which allegedly resulted in over 47 million rubles ($583,300) in damages to the municipal budget, according to law enforcement officials on Friday. Alexei Logvinenko is said to have improperly secured a loan from a commercial bank […]

The police in Yekaterinburg, Russia, apprehended a local street musician after he played songs in support of a St. Petersburg street band that gained popularity for their anti-Kremlin performances, according to the rights organization OVD-Info on Tuesday. Yevgeny Mikhailov, who goes by the stage name Zhenka Radost, faced charges of minor hooliganism and was held […]

Russian state television has blamed Western nations and European media for the delays in organizing a proposed summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which is intended to address the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. On Tuesday, Trump unexpectedly dismissed the Budapest summit, expressing a desire to avoid what he termed a “wasted” meeting. This […]

On Thursday, the European Union announced its 19th set of sanctions against Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. The new measures are aimed at undermining Moscow’s crucial energy revenues, financial systems, and technology supply chains. These economic sanctions also target Belarus, Chinese firms, and cryptocurrency platforms, all with the goal of further restricting […]

Russia has established a comprehensive database monitoring the “digital footprints” of cybercriminals, which will assist authorities in identifying and dismantling fraudulent networks, announced the newly appointed Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan on Tuesday. This system, as Gutsan explained during a meeting of former Soviet prosecutors in Tajikistan, holds information on over 6 million phone numbers, bank […]

On Friday, Russian law enforcement conducted a search at the residence of the mother of Anastasia Chumakova, the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent news platform Astra, which is based in the U.S. The search took place in Ulyanovsk and is part of a criminal investigation into accusations against Chumakova for allegedly disseminating “false information” […]

Over 120 individuals have reportedly fallen ill in Buryatia, a republic in Siberia, due to a widespread food poisoning incident linked to pre-packaged meals available in a local supermarket chain, according to regional health authorities. On Monday, the regional branch of Russia’s consumer rights agency, Rospotrebnadzor, informed the Kommersant business newspaper that the confirmed cases […]

On Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the arrest of an individual in the Amur region of the Far East on charges of treason, alleging that he assisted Ukraine. According to the FSB, the suspect is accused of sending funds to a pro-Ukrainian group that is prohibited in Russia, as well as providing information […]

A destroyer from the British Royal Navy has tracked and monitored a Russian warship close to the northern shores of the U.K., as reported by Sky News on Wednesday. The HMS Duncan, based in Portsmouth, executed this mission under NATO maritime command, keeping a watchful eye on the Russian destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov while it […]

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia has accused the head appointed by the Kremlin in Ukraine’s partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region of exceeding his authority by dismissing the local election commission chair. Yevgeny Balitsky stated late Thursday that he had removed Galina Katyushchenko from her position leading the Moscow-backed election commission in Zaporizhzhia, citing a […]