Negotiations underway to unblock exports of fertilizer from Russia have made “important steps forward,” one of the main United Nations negotiators said on Thursday, while acknowledging that there was still a way to go. Russian grain and fertilizer exports continue to face issues over sanctions imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, despite two agreements…
Russian tech group Yandex announced on Thursday that its revenues continued to climb during the third quarter, despite Russia being under Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. The company’s revenues rose 46% compared to the third quarter of last year, reaching 113.2 billion rubles ($2.1 billion). Yandex – often dubbed “Russia’s Google” – employs around…
Russia summoned the UK ambassador to Moscow to the Foreign Ministry on Thursday and warned London of “dangerous consequences” after accusing it of helping Kyiv carry out an attack on Moscow’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea last week. “Such confrontational actions of the English carry a threat of escalation of the situation and could lead…
In the remote waters of the Arctic Ocean above Russia’s Far East mainland lies Wrangel Island — a rugged, mountainous stretch of land that remains barely touched by human life. The 91st-largest island in the world, Wrangel Island covers an area roughly the size of Crete and is under UNESCO protection. As the island is…
The Russian-installed head of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, announced the completion of the latest in a series of prisoner swaps between Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday. According to Pushilin, 107 captured troops on both sides were swapped in what was the second prisoner exchange between the warring militaries in just over a week. …
The Russian flag hanging in front of the regional administration in Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region has been taken down, pro-Russian Telegram channels said Thursday. “I drove up to the building of the former government of the Kherson region; I confirm that there is no [Russian] flag over it,” pro-Kremlin war correspondent Alexander Kots said on…
Grain ships left Ukraine’s ports on Thursday, a day after Russia rejoined an international agreement to guarantee their safe passage through the Black Sea. But Russia said it had yet to decide whether to extend the grain deal beyond Nov. 19 — the renewal date set in the agreement. “Before making a decision on an…
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called on Russia to reinstate the death penalty for those suspected of wartime sabotage. “We can overcome the moratorium on the death penalty, if necessary, within the framework of the current Constitution,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram messaging app channel. “It’s a matter of choosing the means to…
The Russian authorities in annexed Crimea said Thursday they are considering nationalizing Ukrainian-owned property on the peninsula, including an $800,000 apartment owned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A commission is currently compiling a list of properties owned by “unfriendly” foreign individuals and states that could be subject to nationalization, Vladimir Konstantinov, the head of Crimea’s…