A Ukrainian drone struck a car in the Russian border village of Pochaevo on Monday, killing three people and wounding three others, the region’s governor said. Pochaevo is less than five kilometers from the Ukrainian border in Russia’s Belgorod region, which Moscow says has been repeatedly targeted by Kyiv’s forces. “The Ukrainian army attacked a…
Russian prosecutors are seeking a six-year prison sentence for PR expert and activist Yaroslav Shirshikov, who was among the first to report on U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in March last year, local media reported Monday. Shirshikov has said he gave an interview to Gershkovich and helped him with his reporting not long before the…
Updated with court ruling. A Russian court has handed a two-year prison sentence to PR expert and activist Yaroslav Shirshikov, who was among the first to report on U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in March last year, local media reported Tuesday. Shirshikov has said he gave an interview to Gershkovich and helped him with his reporting…
“You can be at home, with all the windows closed, and suddenly you start to smell some kind of burning odor,” said Andrei Skovorodnikov-Erlikh, a resident of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, of his city’s “black sky” alerts. “When you look outside, everything is covered with a noticeable smog. By the second or third day…
Russian billionaire Yury Antipov and his wife have been detained in connection to a fraud investigation, the state-run news agency TASS reported Monday, citing law enforcement sources. The news came on the same day that the billionaire’s steel plants in the city of Chelyabinsk were seized by the Russian government, with prosecutors arguing that the plants had…
A public farewell for late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny will be held later this week, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said Monday. “We’re looking for a hall to hold a public farewell to Alexei. The time is the end of the work week,” Yarmysh wrote on X (formerly Twitter). She also asked supporters for suggestions…
Students from the backbone higher educational institutions and representatives from the partner countries of ROSATOM will visit the festival. In 2024 ROSATOM will be the general partner of the World Youth Festival which will take place on March, 1-7, 2024 at Sirius Federal Territory (Sochi, the Krasnodar Territory). ROSATOM has also obtained the status of…
Early voting for Russia’s presidential election has begun in remote areas of the country and parts of occupied Ukraine, the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia reported Monday, citing election authorities. While regular voting in the presidential race is due to take place between March 15 and 17, people in occupied parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions…
Ukraine said Monday it had withdrawn from the settlement of Lastochkyne in eastern Ukraine, which Russia said it had captured, the latest in a string of Russian advances after the fall of Avdiivka. As the war enters its third year, Moscow’s troops have mounted heavy attacks and taken Avdiivka — a key eastern town —…
Updated to add the Financial Times’ and Deutsche Welle’s report. Opposition activist Alexei Navalny died ahead of a planned prisoner swap between Moscow and Western governments, the late Kremlin critic’s allies said Monday. “In early February, [President Vladimir] Putin was given an offer to swap the FSB killer Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a prison…
Danish police said Monday that they were closing their investigation into the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia and Germany, a move dubbed “close to absurd” by the Kremlin. Neighboring Sweden closed its investigation in early February citing a lack of jurisdiction, meaning only Germany now has an ongoing investigation into…
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday that it has “dismantled” a financing ring for a Syrian militant group. “As a result of the activities carried out in 22 Russian regions, 49 members of a terrorist network involved in the collection and transfer of funds for the needs of militants operating in Syria were detained,”…
JSC ASE Hungarian Branch (part of the Engineering Division of ROSATOM) organised a seminar for potential suppliers of the Paks II. NPP project. The event, which was attended by more than 350 representatives of 180 companies was held on 23 February in Paks (Hungary). Vitaly Polyanin, Vice President of ASE JSC and Director of the…