Category: World

Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that they have conducted an exchange involving the remains of 950 soldiers who lost their lives, marking the second such transaction in less than a month. According to Shamsail Saraliyev, a member of the State Duma, Russia received the remains of 41 soldiers, while Ukraine repatriated 909 of its […]

Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has temporarily halted the sale of its Russian subsidiary as of February, in light of indications that U.S.-Russia relations may be improving, according to a report from the Financial Times citing unnamed insiders. “Stopping the sale allows us to evaluate the current situation and consider any possible shifts in U.S. […]

Russian officials are preparing for a persistent decline in oil prices, as the Economic Development Ministry has notably lowered its forecast for the average price of Urals crude oil for 2025 to $56 per barrel. This forecast represents the lowest expected price since 2020, during which the Covid-19 pandemic caused a drastic drop in global […]

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Friday that Washington must determine within a few days if a ceasefire in Ukraine is a feasible option, following discussions with European officials in Paris. “We need to assess quickly, within the next few days, if this is achievable in the short term, because if it isn’t, […]

A Soyuz spacecraft, carrying one American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, successfully returned from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. According to Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, the capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe in the morning. “At 4:20 Moscow time today, the Soyuz MS-26 capsule touched down with crew members Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, […]

Russia has officially taken the Taliban off its list of designated terrorist organizations, a legal step following years of pragmatic relations with the Afghan militant group. Although the Taliban has been classified as a terrorist entity in Russia since 2003, experts note that the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday does not signify a formal acknowledgment […]

Former governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, along with his first deputy, Alexei Dedov, were detained and accused of extensive fraud on Wednesday. The Meshchansky Court in Moscow ordered that Smirnov be held in pre-trial detention for a period of two months. Images and videos were released by the court showing the ex-governor being […]

On Thursday, Russia stated that it would consider Ukrainian attacks on transportation infrastructure utilizing German-made Taurus long-range missiles as a form of “direct involvement” in the conflict by Germany. This statement followed remarks from Friedrich Merz, the chancellor-in-waiting of Germany, who expressed a willingness to provide the missiles to Ukraine. Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the […]

Moscow’s initiative to route Russian gas through Kazakhstan as an alternative to the halted Power of Siberia 2 pipeline has not gained support in Beijing. This proposal, revealed by Moscow in the autumn of 2024, aimed to transport up to 45 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian natural gas to China annually via Kazakhstan. However, […]

A military court in Moscow sentenced former Deputy Chief of Russia’s General Staff, Vadim Shamarin, to seven years in a high-security prison on corruption charges on Thursday. Lieutenant-General Shamarin, who previously led the communications department of the General Staff, was apprehended in May 2024 for allegedly taking bribes amounting to 36 million rubles (approximately $437,600) […]