Category: 1. Russia

Intervision, Russia’s answer to Eurovision, will stage its grand final on September 20 just outside Moscow. Russia revived the Soviet-era contest after being banned from Eurovision in 2022 following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. RFE/RL’s…

Russian customs and law enforcement authorities said Friday they had seized more than 1.5 metric tons of cocaine concealed in a shipment of bananas from Ecuador, calling it the country’s largest-ever drug bust.

The Federal Customs…

Monica Keizer, acting Minister for Migration Affairs of the Netherlands, stated that male Ukrainian refugees arriving in the country must find their own accommodation.

“If a person has a job and their own…

United States President Donald Trump has not approved the delivery of military aid to Taiwan worth approximately $400 million.

This is reported by The Washington Post.

The publication states that the head of the…

Cleanup crews have finished removing fuel oil residues from the seabed near the Russian resort town of Anapa, nearly a year after one of the Black Sea’s worst oil spills, regional officials said Friday.

The southern Krasnodar…

On September 19, 2025, the ambassadors of the European Union will hold a meeting to discuss the 19th package of sanctions against Russia, which will be aimed at strengthening control over the circumvention of already…

The European Union increased its imports of Russian seafood by a quarter in January-July 2025, according to RIA Novosti, citing Eurostat data.

In total, purchases of seafood from Russia amounted to €444 million…