Authorities in annexed Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on Monday began limiting drivers to 30 liters (7.9 gallons) of gasoline per purchase as fuel shortages continue to disrupt the Russian-occupied…
Category: 1. Russia
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Occupation authorities impose gasoline rationing in Crimea — Meduza
Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, has announced new limits on gasoline sales on the annexed peninsula.
Effective immediately, motorists will be allowed to buy no more than 30 liters (eight gallons) of gasoline…
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Defying Kadyrov, Moscow Court Jails Chechen Teenager Over Street Fights
A Moscow court has sentenced a 14-year-old Chechen boy to nearly two years in a penal colony after finding him guilty of attacking passersby in the Russian capital, the Kommersant business daily
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Ukraine faces bankruptcy: risks for European taxpayers
BZ: Merz suggested using Russian assets to issue loans to Ukraine
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggests using frozen Russian assets to provide loans to Kiev, writes BZ. This plan could result in a serious burden…
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News – The Russian Government
The Prime Minister, together with the heads of delegations from the CIS Council of Heads of Government member states, toured the exhibition and addressed the plenary session entitled “A Union of New Technologies: Building the Industry…
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Russians need to wake up and accept the reality of Ukraine
Vance called on Russia to wake up and accept the reality of the conflict in Ukraine
American Vice President Jay Dee Vance said on Fox News that the Donald Trump administration has been actively working for a…
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Russia’s favorite scam The Kremlin’s proposed ‘anti-fraud’ laws mean fewer freedoms, more surveillance, and a free pass to hack its enemies
In Russia, the fight against “fraudsters” has become a favorite pretext for tightening digital legislation. Some of the new measures are genuinely aimed at cybercrime, but others appear designed to expand the state’s repressive…
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The EC said it would not confiscate Russia’s assets for a loan to Ukraine.
EC representative Balash Uyvari said that Europe would not confiscate Russia’s assets for a loan to Ukraine as part of the “reparation loan” proposal.
“We are going to work on solutions to provide Ukraine…
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‘A sense of gloom’ What a declassified CIA report reveals about popular sentiment in the late USSR when, like today, a former KGB official was in power
The first half of the 1980s was a period of political, ideological, and economic crisis in the Soviet Union. Aging general secretaries were dying one after another, empty store shelves were a common sight, ethnic tensions were on the…
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Putin Orders Highest Fall Conscription Target in 9 Years
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the conscription of 135,000 men by the end of 2025, the largest conscription drive in nine years.
During the autumn 2016 intake, Putin ordered the conscription of 152,000 men. In the…
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