Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Ukrainian passport holders who have entered Russia since Kremlin’s offensive to live and work in the country indefinitely. Up until now, Ukrainians could only stay in Russia for a maximum of 90 days within a 180-day period. To stay longer or to work, one had to get special authorization or…
There is a risk of a radioactive leak at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — Europe’s largest — which is occupied by Russian troops, the state energy operator said Saturday. Energoatom said Moscow’s troops had “repeatedly shelled” the site of the plant in southern Ukraine over the past day, whilst Russia’s defense ministry claimed Kyiv’s troops…
Belarusian political refugee Karyna Patsiomkina thought she would be out of harm’s way when she moved into a flat in Bucha, a lush suburb north of Kyiv, in early February. She felt comfortable in Ukraine, she said, a country “100 times more democratic” than her homeland, whose strongman leader has ruled with an iron fist…
We tend to complain about Russian cuisine, insisting that it hasn’t changed since the first household manual, the “Domostroi,” was written centuries ago. It’s all cabbage soups, blinis, and little pastries. How can it catch up to modern times! No wonder people forget about Russian cuisine — it’s hopelessly behind the times. There is, of…
Russia on Friday prevented the adoption of a joint declaration following a four-week UN conference on a nuclear disarmament treaty, with Moscow denouncing what it said were “political” aspects of the text. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which 191 signatories review every five years, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote complete disarmament and…