Artist Artiom Loskutov, like many Russians, had to leave the country after the invasion of Ukraine. Born in 1986 in Novosibirsk, Loskutov is one of the creators of the annual “Monstration” parade, known for its absurdist slogans like “Enough tolerating this, let’s tolerate something else!” and “Our hearts demand dumplings!”, as well as dubinopisy —…
A Russian student artist has been sentenced to nine years in prison on treason charges for sending $30 to the Ukrainian army, the independent Mediazona news website reported Thursday, citing the court’s press service. Tatiana Laletina, 21, was arrested in the Siberian city of Tomsk in late February and charged with state treason, a crime punishable…
Russia’s flagship Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional airliner crashed outside Moscow, killing all three pilots on board, state news agencies reported Friday. The Gazpromavia SSJ 100 crashed in the Moscow region’s Kolomensky district during a test flight after “planned repairs,” TASS quoted anonymous emergency services as saying. The Russian-made jet was flying from its base at…
The reactor vessel, components of the pressurizer and the pipeline valves will be manufactured from blanks weighing more than 650 tons. Metallurgical plant AEM-Special Steels (Mechanical engineering division of Rosatom) has manufactured and shipped a large lot of blanks for the equipment of El Dabaa NPP Unit 1, which is being built in Egypt by…
A court in Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Donetsk region on Friday jailed a member of the OSCE monitoring mission to Ukraine for “espionage” in a judgment condemned by the European security organization. The Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic found Vadym Golda, 56, guilty and sentenced him to 14 years in a strict-regime penal colony,…
China said Friday it was conducting joint military drills with Russia along its southern coast, after a U.S.-led Western defense alliance met in Washington and Japan warned of a growing threat from Beijing’s strong ties with Moscow. China’s Defense Ministry said the two militaries had begun the exercises, called Joint Sea-2024, in “early July” and…
The second field season of hydrobiological research organized by Rosneft and Innopraktika, a non-governmental development institute, started in the White Sea
YouTube will be slowed down in Russia due to “technical problems” with Google’s equipment in the country, state-owned telecom giant Rostelecom announced Friday. Rostelecom said in a statement that “growth in traffic” had led to a “serious overload” of equipment that is used to speed up the loading of YouTube videos and other Google services. “This…
A shooting at a military deployment site in southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine has left a number of Russian soldiers dead and wounded, media reported Friday. Baza, a Telegram news channel believed to have links to Russia’s security services, said a manhunt was underway for a serviceman armed with a Kalashnikov automatic…
Australian police have charged a married Russian-born couple with spying for Moscow, top officials said Friday, accusing them of accessing national security-related material from the military. The 40-year-old woman, Kira Korolev, and her 62-year-old husband Igor — both holders of Russian passports — had lived in Australia for more than 10 years and obtained citizenship,…