Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) briefly took shelter after a Russian satellite broke into pieces in Earth’s orbit, the American space agency NASA said Thursday. “NASA instructed crews aboard the space station to shelter in their respective spacecraft as a standard precautionary measure after it was informed of a satellite break-up at…
Authorities in the Ural Mountains region of Perm will give out lump sum payments for every newborn child of a soldier fighting in Moscow’s war against Ukraine, regional governor Dmitry Makhonin said Wednesday. “We’ll provide a one-time cash payment to the spouse of the special military operation participant upon the birth of a child,” Makhonin…
Russia’s state financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring has added journalist Artyom Kriger to its list of “terrorists and extremists,” his employer SOTAvision reported on Thursday. Kriger, 23, was arrested last week on charges related to the “extremism” case against late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, according to SOTAvision, an independent news outlet. The journalist was accused of “participation in…
Poland and the Baltic states are urging the EU to strengthen its eastern borders, warning in a joint letter to Brussels of a “looming threat” from Russia and Belarus. The four EU member countries are trenchant critics of Moscow, which they accuse of orchestrating hybrid attacks including “intimidation, instrumentalization of migrants, sabotage, disinformation, foreign information manipulation…
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) falsified evidence against a 15-year-old schoolboy who was jailed last week on terrorism charges, the independent news outlet Mediazona reported Thursday, citing case materials. A Moscow military court ordered Arseniy Turbin to spend five years at a juvenile correctional facility on charges of “participating in terrorist activities.” He was accused of…
Updated with historical context. Russian prosecutors announced Thursday that they have asked a court to recognize crimes committed by Nazi Germany and its then-collaborator Finland in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk as a “genocide.” The Prosecutor General’s Office said archival documents and witness testimonies indicated that over 8,000 civilians and 18,000 Soviet prisoners of war…
Lyudmila Vasilyeva, at 83 years old, has a long history of activism. A Leningrad siege survivor and pensioner, Vasilyeva is now a hopeful for governor of Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg. She aims to challenge the incumbent, Alexander Beglov, who is running from the ruling, pro-Kremlin United Russia party. Calling for the end of the…
Authorities in Moscow have condemned Wednesday’s attempted military coup in Bolivia and warned against “destructive foreign interference” in the South American country. Two Bolivian army leaders were arrested on Wednesday after soldiers and tanks took up position in front of government buildings, in what President Luis Arce called an attempt to overthrow his government. “We…
A senior federal law enforcement official said Thursday that Russia has sent 10,000 recently naturalized citizens to fight in Ukraine amid Moscow’s manpower shortage. Male migrants who receive Russian citizenship are required by law to register with the Russian military and can be called up to serve in the army during mobilization. “We’ve begun to…