Russia has agreed to extend the Ukraine grain export deal following talks with the United Nations on Monday — but only for a further 60 days. Moscow said it wanted to see “tangible progress” on a parallel agreement on Russian exports before the deal comes up for renewal again. The grain export deal has helped ease…
Russia has resorted to recruiting inmates from women’s prisons to serve in the Russian military in a bid to make up for its growing losses in Ukraine, according to both Ukrainian officials and an independent Russian prisons watchdog. “Last week, a train with sleeping cars for the transfer of prisoners was spotted moving towards the…
Updated to add the Kremlin’s response. The International Criminal Court (ICC) will open two cases against Russian officials over the invasion of Ukraine, The New York Times reported on Monday. A spokeswoman for the office of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said it “offers no comment about this story.” In its report, The New York Times…
Russia on Monday began the closed-door trial of jailed opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces more than two decades in prison on charges including treason for comments critical of the Kremlin. His high-profile trial is the latest in a string of cases against opposition voices in Russia in a crackdown that has intensified since President…
MOSCOW – Despite rapturous scenes at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater on Sunday night as the documentary “Navalny” was announced the winner of this year’s best documentary feature Oscar, anyone relying on Russian state media to find out the news might be forgiven for being none the wiser. The Monday daytime broadcasting schedule on state-run channels Rossiya-24,…
Russia’s Federal Customs Service is to resume publication of the country’s official foreign trade data after a year-long hiatus, the agency announced on Monday. Russia’s customs body abruptly suspended the publication of its import and export statistics in March last year as the country found itself enduring wave upon wave of international sanctions in response to Russia’s…
While Moldova does not currently face “imminent military danger” it is subject to “hybrid warfare generated by Russia” in a bid to “overthrow state power,” Moldovan Defense Minister Anatolie Nosatii told AFP in an interview Monday. Nosatii sat down for an interview with AFP at his office in the capital Chisinau after the latest in a…
Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom, has been awarded as the winner of the tender by the Brazilian Eletronuclear company for supplies of more than 100 kg of lithium-7 hydroxide. This product will be used in the reactor cooling system of both operating power units of the Admiral…
The United Nations and Russia began talks Monday on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal, which has helped ease the global food crisis triggered by Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffith did not comment to reporters as he arrived for the talks at the Palais des Nations UN headquarters in Geneva,…
The presidents of Iran and Belarus hailed their close ties in talks in Tehran Monday at a time both countries are sharply at odds with Western powers, including over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ex-Soviet state Belarus serves as a rear base for Russian troops, and Iran is accused of supplying Moscow with armed drones for…
March 9, 2023, El Alto, Bolivia – A unique for Latin America complex for radiopharmaceuticals production buit by Rosatom by order of the Bolivian Nuclear Energy Agency (ABEN), has started supplies of radiopharmaceuticals to the network of the Bolivian nuclear medicine centers. The ceremony of the beginning of supplies of the radiopharmaceutical fluodeoxyglucose took place…
Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit President Vladimir Putin in Russia as soon as next week, Reuters reported Monday, citing unnamed sources briefed on the matter. Putin invited Xi to visit Moscow this spring during a video call between the leaders on Dec. 30. If confirmed, Xi’s visit will take place much earlier than previously…
Russia has lost its share of global arms exports over the past five years as the invasion of Ukraine limited supplies and demand from most traditional partners declined in 2022, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank said in a new report Monday. While Russia accounted for 22% of global arms sales in…
The Kremlin maintains direct control over the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims as its own territory amid continuing fighting and a lack of established borders, Russia’s Kommersant daily reported Monday, citing unnamed presidential administration sources. Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are not included in any of Russia’s eight federal districts and do…
LOS ANGELES — “Navalny” won the best documentary Oscar at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, besting “All That Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love” and “A House Made of Splinters.” The film, directed by Daniel Roher, follows an investigation by the journalist group Bellingcat and CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa…