A Taliban diplomat will on Tuesday assume the role as Afghanistan’s ambassador to Russia, the Islamist group’s first top envoy to Moscow since seizing power in 2021, Russian state media reported.
Gul…

A Taliban diplomat will on Tuesday assume the role as Afghanistan’s ambassador to Russia, the Islamist group’s first top envoy to Moscow since seizing power in 2021, Russian state media reported.
Gul…

Russian state-owned bank VTB has reported a growing share of overdue retail loans, the bank’s chief financial officer told journalists Tuesday.
The proportion of non-performing loans (NPLs), those overdue by more than 90 days, in…


“We’ll see what happens, and we’re keeping a close eye on the situation,” RIA Novosti…


The Kremlin has launched an online bot campaign to justify the country’s steepest utility rate hikes in years, the exiled news outlet Agentsvo reported Tuesday.
Citing data from Botnadzor, a watchdog project that tracks state-aligned…

The war with Israel last month decimated a senior echelon of Iran’s military leadership, crippled its air defenses, and exposed the vulnerability of its air force. Within days, Israel had established aerial superiority, paving the way for US…

A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed during a training flight in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Defense Ministry.
The aircraft was said to have experienced mechanical…

Foreigners in Russia who have not yet submitted biometric data to the authorities will begin to have their mobile phone service disconnected starting Tuesday, the Russian Digital Development Ministry


This was reported by the Financial Times.
“The intensified missile attacks on…

Back in May, Russia and Ukraine carried out the largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of the full-scale war, with each side releasing 1,000 soldiers. But the families of many returned Russian servicemen say their husbands, brothers, and…