Category: 1. Russia

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…

Not long after he gave Russia 10 days to stop the war in Ukraine, US President Donald Trump said unequivocally on July 31 that the United States will “put sanctions” on Moscow over its lack of movement toward a cease-fire or peace deal with…

Former political prisoner Kevin Lik, who was freed from a Russian prison in the historic prisoner swap between Moscow and multiple Western countries one year ago, tore up his Russian passport at a press conference in Cologne, Germany,…

Russian authorities are increasingly restricting access to core government statistics, including economic, demographic and crime data, as concerns grow over a potential economic slowdown, analysts at the state-owned Promsvyazbank (PSB)…