A Russian military court on Monday convicted a popular Ukrainian YouTube blogger and journalist in absentia for making public calls to kill President Vladimir Putin. A Moscow military court sentenced Dmitry Gordon to 14 years imprisonment, the TASS news agency reported. Russia has been convicting its opponents in absentia as part of a crackdown since…
The number of people killed in a wave of coordinated attacks in Russia’s southern Dagestan region last month has risen to 22, the regional head said Monday. Gunmen simultaneously attacked two churches, two synagogues and a police checkpoint in two cities in Dagestan on June 23. On Monday, regional Governor Sergei Melikov said the number…
A gay Dagestani man has fled Russia after getting caught in the local police force’s entrapment scheme involving a porn blogger, the North Caucasus LGBTQ+ rights group SK SOS announced Monday. Police in the republic of Dagestan had lured the blogger Matvey Volodin, who performs under the name USSRboy, from Moscow to the majority Muslim republic…
A wind storm enveloped a town in Russia’s Kemerovo (Kuzbass) region in black coal dust on Sunday, media reported. Visibility reportedly dropped to almost zero in the southern Western Siberian town of Kiselyovsk after strong winds lifted dust from the town’s open-pit coal mines into the air. Photos and videos shared on social media showed…
The Kremlin is following the election results in France “very closely,” a spokesman said Monday, after the first round of a snap vote where the far-right National Rally (RN) party won a resounding victory. “The preferences of French voters are more or less clear to us,” said spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The far-right National Rally (RN)…
Authorities in Russia’s Siberian and Far East republics of Tyva and Sakha (Yakutia) have declared states of emergency due to summer wildfires raging across the regions. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said 75 people died and 2,200 were evacuated from more than 500 active wildfires across the country in the past week. Over two-thirds of these…
Russian attacks killed two elderly women in the town of Ukrainsk in the war-battered eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Monday, regional authorities said. The industrial territory has been the target of Russian firepower over more than two years of conflict and the Kremlin’s forces have claimed slow but steady gains there. Donetsk regional prosecutors…
Russia’s patriotic youth organization “Movement of the First” is planning to send schoolchildren to North Korea for summer camp, the group’s Chairman Grigory Gurov told Russian state-run media on Saturday. “We just had a visit by a youth delegation to North Korea … They have the Songdowon camp; we, respectively, have Artek, Orlenok, Smena and…
Russia accidentally dropped at least 38 unguided bombs over its own territory in April 2023-April 2024, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing internal bomb cleanup and evacuation documents it obtained from Ukrainian intelligence. The FAB-500 glide bombs that carry a 500-kilogram payload have fallen on Russia’s Belgorod region which borders Ukraine, the newspaper reported. Russia had started…
Pre-licensing training of the specialists for the first power unit of the plant subject to licensing by the Atomic Energy Regulation Agency of Bangladesh (BAERA) was completed at the premises of the Training Center of Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh. Training was arranged by ROSATOM Technical Academy. 48 Bengal nuclear specialists (the operating personnel of the…
Officials in Russian regions bordering Ukraine reported power cuts and water supply issues on Monday after deadly drone attacks by Kyiv. The attacks and shelling on the border region of Belgorod over the past day killed a four-year-old girl and wounded seven people, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Ukraine regularly targets Russian border regions with…