Spanish fashion retailer Inditex said Tuesday would sell its stores in Russia, seven months after the Zara owner halted its operations in the country following the invasion of Ukraine. The Spanish fashion giant said it had reached an “initial agreement” to sell its business in Russia to Daher group, which has business interests in retail…
On the night of Oct. 17, the Ischenko family reportedly sat down for dinner in their apartment on the seventh floor of an apartment block in the southern Russian port town of Yeysk. But as the family gathered, a Russian supersonic Su-34 strike aircraft came crashing through their apartment window, sending a huge plume of…
As the sun set in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, an Su-30 Russian military fighter jet nose-dived into a two-story house, exploding on impact and killing its two-man crew — the second time in days that a military jet crashed in Russia. Last week an Su-34 fighter bomber crashed into an apartment block…
The last partial solar eclipse of 2022 was visible in the skies over much of Europe on Tuesday, including Russia. The moon’s shadow reached its peak in the southern Urals city of Chelyabinsk, where residents could see 79% coverage at around 4 p.m. Russians across the country stepped outside to catch a glimpse of the…
Dozens of environmental activists have fled Russia following the invasion of Ukraine in an exodus that has reduced focus on fighting climate change and weakened the country’s fledgling ecological protest movement. “Since the start of the war, it has been more dangerous to speak out about the environment,” said Ivan Drobotov, a Russian environmental activist…
A Russian court on Tuesday rejected American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal of her nine-year sentence on drug charges, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported, raising the stakes of U.S. efforts to negotiate her release. The 32-year-old was handed nine years in prison in August after security officers at a Moscow airport found vape cartridges…
The Kremlin said Tuesday that Moscow sees “no hope” of improving diplomatic ties with London under new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “At the moment, we do not see any preconditions, grounds, or hope that in the foreseeable future there will be any positive changes” in the relationship between the United Kingdom and Russia, Kremlin…
A secret Russian military unit staffed by dozens of mostly young engineers and IT professionals is behind the selection of targets for deadly missile strikes in Ukraine, according to an independent investigation published Tuesday. According to the investigative group Bellingcat, independent Russian news website The Insider and German weekly Der Spiegel, at least 33 military…
Twenty years since Chechen separatists seized a crowded theatre in Moscow, spurring a hostage standoff that ended with more than one hundred dead, the survivors remain haunted by their memories and plagued by unanswered questions. On Oct. 23, 2002 — as the Second Chechen War was raging in southern Russia — armed militants burst into…
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov called Tuesday for the destruction of Ukrainian cities in response to increasing counterattacks on border areas and Ukrainian regions that Putin claimed in a disputed annexation. “We’ve already declared martial law… but they’re not shy, they shoot,” Kadyrov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in an audio message posted…
Yum Brands Inc announced Monday it has sold its KFC restaurants and franchise in Russia to a local buyer as one of the world’s largest restaurant companies plans to fully exit the market over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “Following the completion of the transaction, Yum! Brands will have ceased its corporate presence in Russia,” the…