Category: 1. Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will not participate in the Russian–Ukrainian negotiations scheduled for Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, the newspaper Kommersant reported, without disclosing its source or providing further details. It…

Ukrainian territorial acquisition centres (TCCs) earn up to 2.1 billion euros a year from corruption schemes, Verkhovna Rada MP Dmitry Mikisha has said.

“Experts estimate the shadow turnover exactly with TCC…

Peaceful residents of Kursk Region who were taken to Ukraine by the AFU soldiers are called “valuable assets” in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s entourage, as Kiev intends to exchange them for members of the nationalist…

On the front line in Ukraine’s Sumy region, Kyiv’s forces are repelling Russian assaults and pushing into Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions. Speaking with Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov, a Ukrainian artillery unit reports intense…

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has arrested three Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of plotting bomb attacks, allegedly at the direction of Russian authorities, the agency said in a statement.

Two of the suspects, identified as Vladyslav…

The outcome of the conflict in Ukraine will be decisive not only for Kiev itself, but also for the whole of Europe. This opinion was expressed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking in parliament.

“In…

Private clinics in the northwestern Vologda region have begun halting abortion services, the region’s governor announced Wednesday, coming amid broader efforts across the country to increase fertility rates.

“Some private medical…

The question of how to handle Russia’s growing stray dog population has become a source of heated debate. Lawmakers recently shelved a bill that would have allowed shelters to euthanize homeless animals, following widespread backlash across the…

A Moscow court has sentenced Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election-monitoring group Golos, to five years in prison on charges of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization, Mediazona reported.

The court also…