The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin was charged with “inciting an armed uprising” and military vehicles were deployed to the streets of Moscow and Rostov-on-Don after he made an extraordinary threat to “stop” Russia’s top military brass. Prigozhin on Friday accused Russia’s military leadership of ordering strikes on Wagner’s camps and killing a “huge”…
The Moscow Times is collecting all the latest breaking news and developments around Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group. While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of our reporting, claims and counter-claims are sometimes impossible to verify. The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group on Friday accused the country’s military leadership of ordering…
Russia on Friday urged Azerbaijan to unblock access to Nagorno-Karabakh as concern grows over a deepening humanitarian crisis in the breakaway region. Residents of Karabakh reported new shortages of food and medicine after the International Committee of the Red Cross said Azerbaijan had blocked access for convoys delivering aid to the Armenian-populated region last week. “We…
A Russian-held bridge that connects southern Ukraine to the annexed Crimean peninsula has been badly damaged and is “unusable” at present, a Moscow-installed official said on Friday. “It is unusable for movement,” said Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, adding that the Chongar bridge would be closed to traffic…
Месяц: moon, month I must admit that I don’t think much about calendars or dates or months. They just are. 365 days in a year (except leap year), 12 months, a little rhyme to remember which months have 30 days and which have 31. That’s it. Of course, I’m wrong. Today’s calendar is more or…
Russian companies have been systematically looting industrial goods from factories in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, according to a report by the independent news outlet Mozhem Obyasnit’. Citing customs records, journalists estimated that Russia had plundered more than 1 billion rubles ($15 million) worth of goods — including…
Last week Owen Matthews won the 2023 Pushkin House Book Prize for his book, “Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine,” called “an impressive achievement: a work of accessible history, with very vivid writing, depth and historical sweep” by Yekaterina Schulmann, the chair of the judges. The Moscow Times talked the Matthews about…
Russia said Friday it was barring entry to more European officials in response to the EU’s decision to slap new sanctions on Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. “In response to these unfriendly actions, the Russian side has significantly expanded the list of representatives of European institutions and EU member states who… are prohibited from entering…
Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, said in a bombshell video posted on social media Friday. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with the NATO bloc,” Prigozhin explained in the half-hour tirade…
Another round of consultations with the IAEA on the situation at the Zaporozhskaya NPP held in Kaliningrad on June 23. The Russian delegation was headed by Director General of ROSATOM Alexey Likhachev. The meeting was also attended by Alexander Trembitsky, Head of Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (ROSTECHNADZOR); Vladimir Mashevsky, Head…
A memorial plaque dedicated to the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, which disappeared earlier this month from the former Kresty prison in St. Petersburg, has been found and handed into the police, the local Fontanka news outlet reported Thursday. Local lawyer Vladimir Filatov admitted to removing the memorial plaque, saying he was concerned it would be…
The Russian Navy has bolstered security at its Black Sea Fleet base in annexed Crimea with the use of trained dolphins, Britain’s defense ministry said Friday. Citing satellite imagery, the British military said the number of floating mammal pens in the harbor of Crimea’s port city of Sevastopol has nearly doubled from April to June. The…
Russia’s domestic intelligence agency has detained five people suspected of trying to smuggle a dangerous radioactive isotope out of Russia, claiming the group planned to incriminate Moscow in a false-flag attack on Ukraine, state media reported Friday. The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the five unnamed individuals — “acting in coordination with a Ukrainian citizen” —…
A mystery Russian diplomat with a penchant for loungewear and cigarettes sparked a national security standoff between Canberra and the Kremlin Friday, defying Australian efforts to seize a messy construction site in the heart of the capital. Australia has blocked Russia from building a new embassy on the parcel of land — a stone’s throw from Parliament…
Billionaire investor Alexander Mamut fled Russia shortly after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine last year and now plans to launch a “liberal” media outlet abroad. Mamut, 63, currently divides his time between the United Kingdom and France, according to one of his acquaintances who spoke to the independent news website Meduza. Meduza’s report did not…
The United Nations has put Russian military forces and proxy armed groups on its “list of shame” over the killing and maiming of hundreds of children in its war against Ukraine, according to a document seen by AFP Thursday. In an annual report on the treatment of children in conflict zones, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…