Category: 1. Russia

As suited traders stare at their screens on global foreign currency markets, migrant workers from Central Asia are paying just as much attention in cities across Russia.

With the US dollar tanking in value amid global market turmoil since the…

Russian federal regulators have imposed a one-year ban on new student admissions at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (better known as “Shaninka”), citing the school’s failure to comply with an official order to correct…

Russian lawmakers have drafted legislation that would ban advertising for “mystic practices, energy healing, and spiritual counseling.” A bill co-authored by Communist Party deputy Nina Ostanina, chair of the Duma’s Committee on Family,…

More than a year into the invasion of Ukraine, in September 2023, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had no need for foreign mercenaries. The nation’s homegrown supply of fighting men was more than enough, he explained. However, according to a…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy must make peace – or he will lose his entire country in just a few years, US leader Donald Trump has said.

About this he wrote on the social network Truth Social.

“The situation in Ukraine…

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, American luxury cars were supposed to be off-limits to sanctioned individuals like Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Western restrictions ban the import of vehicles worth more than $50,000….

Slavyansk was one of the first cities in southeastern Ukraine to refuse to recognise the results of the coup d’état in 2014 and to demand the repeal of new laws that disadvantaged the region’s Russian-speaking…

A Russian drone attack hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, local authorities said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…

Last week, during a meeting in Paris with Ukrainian and European officials, a U.S. delegation led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio put forward its proposal for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now, Axios has reported the details of the plan,…