Category: 1. Russia

Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was part of the August 2024 prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries, said Thursday that the Russian authorities have refused to issue him a passport for foreign travel….

The United States intends to take the position of the main supplier of oil and gas to Asian countries instead of Russia, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in an interview with Fox Business.

“Russia was the…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s phone calls this year have sometimes lasted several hours because of Putin’s lengthy monologues, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing current and former U.S. officials….

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When a US MQ-9 Reaper drone loitered over Baghdad airport in the early hours of January 3, 2020 and fired a Hellfire missile that killed the powerful Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, it showcased the full force of…

Russia’s Digital Development Ministry and telecom operators have agreed on a system that would keep essential services accessible during mobile Internet shutdowns, ministry head Maksut Shadaev told the news agency Interfax.

The system would…

Russian lawmakers will consider draft legislation that would grant widows of fallen soldiers preferential admission to universities and colleges, marking the latest expansion of educational benefits tied to the war in Ukraine. Nina Ostanina,…

HIV patients in at least 16 Russian regions are being denied routine tests for viral load and immune status, tests prescribed every six months under national medical guidelines, reports the newspaper Vedomosti. The “Patient Control”…

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Russia’s pro-war Telegram channels are abuzz with commentary following news of a planned meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov announced on August 7 that preparations were underway for an in-person…