Russia said Monday that it had dispatched a MiG-29 fighter jet to “prevent a violation” of its border by a Norwegian military patrol aircraft over the Barents Sea. “As the Russian fighter approached, the foreign military plane made a U-turn away from the borders of the Russian Federation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. “There was…
The Russian ruble’s slide past 100 against the dollar has exposed a multi-billion dollar dilemma at the heart of the Russian economy: how can the Kremlin carry on funding its war against Ukraine without triggering a surge in inflation and fresh fears of an economic crisis at home? The ruble dipped below the crucial level…
At least 400 Russian tourists have been stranded in Turkey for two consecutive days after a series of plane breakdowns, Russia’s Red Wings Airlines said Monday. “Two Boeing 777 aircraft out of the three available in the airline’s fleet were simultaneously out of service due to technical reasons,” Red Wings said in a statement. The…
Residents of southern Russia’s republic of Dagestan blocked traffic on a federal highway in protest of water outages that are said to have lasted most of the summer, Russian authorities and media reported late Sunday. Traffic was brought to a standstill in the village of Karaman 2, which lies along the highway that connects the…
The Russian ruble slid past 100 against the dollar Monday, its lowest level since late March 2022, just weeks after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The ruble has shed around 30% of its value against the dollar since the beginning of the year, as Russia imports more and exports less. Data from the…
A former candidate for governor who nearly unseated a Kremlin-backed incumbent in Russia’s Far East has been sentenced to six years in jail, Russian media reported Monday. Andrei Ishchenko ran in 2018 as a Communist Party challenger for the governor’s post in the Primorye region, where election authorities annulled results after reports of vote-rigging, a rare…
Poland has detained two Russian citizens for “distributing propaganda materials of the Wagner Group” in the cities of Warsaw and Krakow, the Polish interior minister said Monday. “Both were charged with… espionage and arrested,” Mariusz Kaminski said on social media without providing further details about the detained men. Poland has recently warned of possible provocations…
An ally of jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny went on trial in Siberia Monday on charges of creating an “extremist organization,” a court spokesperson told AFP, as authorities continue to crack down on dissent. Ksenia Fadeyeva, 31, is a former municipal deputy in the Siberian city of Tomsk and was added to Russia’s “terrorist”…
More than 2,500 people have been evacuated due to flooding in parts of the Primorye region in Russia’s Far East, emergency officials said Monday. At least three people are believed to have drowned after heavy rains brought by tropical storm Khanun pummeled Russia’s Primorye region late last week. More than 4,600 homes were flooded and 28 towns…
Ukraine downed three waves of Russian missiles and drones targeting Odesa, its army said early on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks in the southern region on the Black Sea coast. “The enemy attacked the Odesa region three times during the night, using two waves of attack drones, a total of 15, and…