A Russian military court on Friday sentenced a Ukrainian woman to 12 years in prison for releasing blue-white-blue balloons — the colors of opposition to the Ukraine offensive — over Moscow last year. Ukrainian citizen Kristina Lyubashenko, 35, was found guilty of taking part in a “terrorist” group and spreading “fake information” about the Russian…
German prosecutors announced Friday that they had arrested three men suspected of spying for a foreign intelligence service. The three men were arrested in the western city of Frankfurt on Wednesday after allegedly trying “to gather information about a Ukrainian national,” federal prosecutors said in a statement. The men were only identified as Robert A. from…
LINZ, Austria — For Nadya Tolokonnikova, rage has always been an antidote to her despair at the Kremlin’s repressions. “When something terrible happens, I’m free to choose — either I lay low in tears, or I rage. And through my rage, the better world starts to manifest,” the founder of the Pussy Riot feminist protest…
A military court in St. Petersburg court on Friday sentenced a Russian woman to 10 years in prison for throwing a molotov cocktail at a military recruitment office last September. The 1st Western District Military Court found Elena Komaricheva, 59, guilty of “terrorism” charges after she agreed “to set fire to the… Military Commissariat of…
Volunteers from the Kuibyshev refinery, one of Rosneft’s largest enterprises in the Samara region, released more than 27,000 fry of the valuable red-listed sterlet into the waters of the Saratov reservoir
ROSATOM will become a partner of INNOPROM-2024 exhibition ROSATOM will become a partner of the international industrial exhibition INNOPROM-2024 which will take place in Yekaterinburg on July, 8-11. This year the theme of the forum is “Technological Partnership: shaping the future”. At this event ROSATOM will present a wide range of sovereign industrial solutions as…
The former governor of central Russia’s Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, who was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2018 for accepting a large bribe, was released from prison on Friday after serving his sentence in full, his lawyer told state media. “Today, in connection with the terms of the sentence of the Presnensky District…
South Korea summoned Russia’s ambassador to Seoul on Friday to protest a defense agreement signed by President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un during a visit to Pyongyang earlier this week. Seoul “strongly urged Russia to immediately stop military cooperation with North Korea and comply with [UN] Security Council resolutions,” the foreign ministry…
Updated with Ukrainian army statement. Russia’s Defense Ministery said Friday that its air defense forces downed 114 drones launched overnight by Ukraine, with at least one person killed in the mass wave of attacks. “Russian anti-aerial defense systems intercepted and destroyed 70 drones over Crimea and the Black Sea, 43 drones over the Krasnodar region…
President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday banned Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky from providing its popular antivirus products in the United States over national security concerns, the U.S. Commerce Department said. “Kaspersky will generally no longer be able to, among other activities, sell its software within the United States or provide updates to software already in…