A St. Petersburg court has pressed misdemeanor charges against the son of a Leningrad siege survivor who is running to unseat the pro-Kremlin incumbent governor of Russia’s second-largest city, local media reported Friday. Denis Vasilyev was accused of “discrediting” the Russian military, according to the Zaks.ru news website, which cited a local court’s press service. The charges…
Google has added 12 languages of ethnic minority groups living in Russia as part of a major new update to its translation service announced on Thursday. Among the total 110 new languages, Google Translate will now include Bashkir, Chechen, Udmurt and Yakut, among others. In addition to Tatar, which was added in 2020, the U.S. tech…
A Rosneft research expedition to study valuable bird species living in the Yenisei River estuary on the Brekhovsky Islands started from the port of Dudinka
ROSATOM, together with more than 900 representatives from 100 countries, discussed issues of training personnel for the sustainable development of global power engineering On June 25-26, the 2nd Obninsk NEW International Youth Nuclear Forum 2024 was held in Obninsk as part of events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the launch of the world’s first…
Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE), one of Russia’s premier universities that was long considered a bastion of liberal values amid growing conservatism in the country, is raising money to purchase drones for the Russian military, the university’s rector said in an interview published on Thursday. “HSE students serve in a reconnaissance battalion but they…
On June 27, 2024, within the framework of the II International Youth Nuclear Forum “Obninsk NEW 2024”, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear power plant, a meeting of international alumni of ROSATOM partner universities “Atom for people, people for Atom” was held. Over 60 graduates and students from 15 countries took…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) late Thursday invited 22 Russian and 17 Belarusian athletes to compete at the Paris Games as neutrals, while some of them have already said they would not participate. The fresh list of names included competitors from tennis, shooting and rowing. Another list of athletes, released earlier this month, included competitors…
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Friday that it had seen an increase in the number of U.S. drone flights over the Black Sea and vowed a response, warning they could lead to “direct confrontation” with NATO. “Such flights multiply the likelihood of airspace incidents with Russian Air and Space Force aircraft, which increases the risk of…
PARIS — An exhibition dedicated to the veteran Russian human rights activist Oleg Orlov went on display in the French capital this June. Orlov, 71, is serving a two-and-a-half-year prison term for criticizing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine after he was sentenced this year for “discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces. “Oleg Orlov: Human Rights Defender,…
Music streaming service Spotify has removed the songs and profiles of pro-war Russian artists sanctioned by the West, the Sweden-based company told The Moscow Times on Thursday. The removals affected the band Lyube and singers Grigory Leps, Oleg Gazmanov, Shaman and Polina Gagarina, among others, according to the Rodnoy Zvuk Telegram channel, which first reported the…
A Ukrainian drone set an oil depot in the central Tambov region ablaze early Friday, regional authorities said. Tambov region Governor Maxim Yegorov said the drone strike happened at 4:35 am local time. “A small fire broke out and it has been contained,” he said on Telegram, adding that no one was injured in the attack.…
A U.S. citizen jailed in Russia for kicking a police officer two years ago appeared in court on Thursday to face new charges of allegedly punching prison guards and an investigator, Russian media reported. Robert Gilman, 30, was found guilty of attacking a policeman while drunk in the western city of Voronezh in 2022 and…