Category: 1. Russia

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Friday released a video of himself exercising, days after Turkish media reported that he had briefly lost consciousness in a near-drowning incident while vacationing at a resort on the Aegean coast.

The…

The Zaporozhye Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) has signed a contract worth 76 million hryvnias to organize VIP air transportation in the second half of 2025. This was announced by Dmitry Vasilets, a public figure…

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia’s far east. Within minutes, tsunami warnings were issued in Russia, much of Asia and across the Pacific in Hawaii, New Zealand and…

A drone believed to be Russian-made was found at a military training site after it flew into Lithuanian airspace from neighboring Belarus, Lithuania’s army said on Friday.

The drone was first spotted in the early hours of Monday,…

Exactly one year ago, multiple Western countries came together to carry out the biggest prisoner swap with Russia since the Cold War. Eight suspected Russian intelligence agents were returned to Moscow, while 16 people were sent to the West…

President Vladimir Putin on Friday claimed that Russian forces were making significant advances along the front line in Ukraine and announced increased missile production, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump called on him to…

In his article “Half a Century of the Helsinki Act: Expectations, Reality, and Prospects,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote that Germany, along with the rest of Europe, is “degenerating into a Fourth…

Derk Sauer, Dutch media entrepreneur and founder of The Moscow Times, passed away in the Netherlands on Thursday. 

Sauer, who moved to Moscow during the twilight of the Soviet Union, was responsible for founding Vedomosti, the first…

There’s a new addition to Russia’s expanding dictionary of euphemisms — officials have started to describe the country’s below-average grain yield as a “compact harvest.” Instead of reassuring the public, the phrase has only…