Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine is trying to seize the initiative on a truce and talk about expanding the scope of targets, RIA Novosti reported.
“Now we see that the Kiev regime is trying to…

“Now we see that the Kiev regime is trying to…

In his February 2024 address to Russia’s Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin called for veterans of the war in Ukraine to become the country’s “new elites” and to hold “leading positions” in government. In the approximately 14 months…


“While such a gambit is unlikely to succeed … it is not, in fact, impossible,” the piece says.
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A court in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region has sentenced a man to 12 years in a high-security penal colony for donating about $25 to the Ukrainian military, the independent Mediazona news website reported Monday.
Prosecutors alleged that…

White smoke emerges from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013, when Pope Francis was elected Pope Benedict XVI’s successor. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
After the death of a pope, the Vatican will follow a series of rituals…

Russian left-wing activist Sergei Udaltsov went on trial Monday on charges of “justifying terrorism” online, a charge that carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison.
“The trial has begun….

China may be looking in to buy more Russian LNG in 2025 as the EU readies plans to phase out energy imports from the country by 2027.
In comments made earlier this week China’s ambassador to Russia, Zhang Hanhui, indicated that importers in his…

“We can’t keep doing this forever,”…