Category: 1. Russia

Pavel Durov announced that Telegram will ban “numerous channels” this week for doxxing and extortion after receiving hundreds of user reports. The messaging app’s founder stated that the company has “undeniable evidence” that channel…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska on August 15, as part of Washington’s ongoing effort to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. According to Bloomberg’s reporting, the…

The number of Russians living in Turkey has nearly halved over the past two years, falling from 154,000 in 2023 to about 85,000 in 2025, the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia reported Monday, citing figures from the Russian Embassy in…

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting in Washington on August 8 set off a wave of celebration. The White House called it historic, and Western media was quick to report that thanks…

A Moscow regional court sentenced Kaliningrad doctors Elina Sushkevich and Elena Belaya to nine and nine-and-a-half years in prison, respectively, for murdering a premature infant. Belaya and Sushkevich maintain their innocence.

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A Ukrainian drone strike forced Russia’s Saratov oil refinery, operated by the state-owned energy giant Rosneft, to halt crude intake on Sunday, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The Saratov…

Russian forces seized 144 square kilometers (about 56 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in the past week, marking an advance nearly 1.5 times faster than in the previous three weeks, according to analysis by journalists at Agentstvo…

A hastily arranged summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is set for Aug. 15, 2025, in Alaska, where the two leaders will discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr