Danish brewer Carlsberg said Tuesday that it had cut licensing agreements with its Russian subsidiary, which was seized by authorities in July in response to plans to sell the company after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Several Western firms have stopped operating in Russia over the conflict, which drew hefty sanctions against Moscow from the U.S.…
YEREVAN, Armenia — “We stand with Artsakh,” reads a poster using the Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh that hangs at Mirzoyan Library, a popular cafe and hangout spot for local hipsters and Russian emigres in the heart of the Armenian capital. This place was recently transformed into a hub for humanitarian aid as volunteers started collecting…
A landfill in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region caught fire on Tuesday, sending potentially hazardous smoke over surrounding residential areas, activists and media reported. In a video posted online by a local activist group, large clouds of brownish-gray smoke could be seen billowing over fields and houses near the landfill, which is located outside the village of Poltavskaya.…
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee last month inscribed the astronomical observatories of Kazan Federal University (KFU) in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan to its World Heritage List. The two buildings in the heart of Tatarstan, which were inscribed as a single property, is the only cultural object from Russia that made the list this year. Earlier, UNESCO…
Russia’s branch of the global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International said Tuesday it has relaunched operations from abroad after being labeled “undesirable” by the authorities. Transparency Russia was forced to dissolve itself earlier this year after being added to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office’s list of “undesirable” organizations. “The experience and knowledge in the field of anti-corruption…
Russia’s Investigative Committee on Tuesday opened a criminal case against a former Wagner fighter and convict over the killing of two women in a Siberian village. Denis Stepanov is accused of setting fire to a home in the village Yermakovkoye, located in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region, resulting in the deaths of a 68-year-old homeowner and a 35-year-old woman, according to…
The Kremlin plans to announce President Vladimir Putin’s campaign for a fifth presidential term at an economic exposition next month, according to reports citing Russian officials and Kremlin insiders. Putin may use his upcoming visit to the “Russia” expo — which will see regions and cities showcase their economic successes amid international sanctions — to…
Russia’s currency briefly fell past 100 against the dollar on Tuesday, continuing to weaken on signs that the country’s economy is facing slower growth and higher inflation amid the war in Ukraine. The psychological threshold of 100 against the dollar raises the prospect of weaker spending power for Russians, who are forced to pay more…
Russian authorities on Tuesday placed Oleksiy Arestovych, the former adviser to Ukraine’s president, on their wanted list in connection with unspecified criminal charges. Arestovych resigned from his position as presidential aide in January over controversial comments he made about a deadly Russian airstrike in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Russia’s Interior Ministry database lists…
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said Tuesday that the dramatic crash of its Luna-25 Moon lander last month was likely caused by an error in the craft’s propulsion system. The lunar mission, Russia’s first in nearly 50 years, was meant to mark the country’s return to independent Moon exploration. But despite the lander’s successful entry into…
Trunovskaya Wind Farm, a new wind farm of Rosatom in Stavropolsky Krai, has started supplying electricity to Russia’s unified grid. When completed, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of 95 MW and consist of 38 wind turbines. “Trunovskaya wind power station is our ninth wind farm in southern Russia and seventh in Stavropolsky…
Updated to add the Kremlin’s reaction. Armenian lawmakers voted Tuesday for their country to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that is likely to provoke outrage from Moscow, the South Caucasus nation’s longtime ally. The Kremlin criticized the decision by Armenia’s parliament to move towards joining the Hague-based court, which has issued an arrest…
Warsaw and Kyiv announced on Tuesday they had agreed to speed up the transit of Ukrainian cereal exports through Poland to third countries, a first step in resolving their “grain war.” The three-nation agreement between Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania means that Ukrainian grain exports — destined for markets in Africa and the Middle East in…
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Tuesday it would press charges against four senior Ukrainian military officials over drone strikes on Russian territory. Moscow leveled the terrorism charges against Kyiv’s intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk, navy commander Oleksiy Neizhpapa and Serhiy Burdenyuk, commander of the 383rd unmanned aviation brigade. “It has also been established…