A former Russian military official responsible for overseeing clothing supplies was arrested on bribery charges, law enforcement authorities announced Tuesday. Vladimir Demchik, who holds the rank of colonel in Russia’s reserve forces, oversaw the defense ministry’s clothing department until April 2018. Investigators accuse Demchik of accepting 4 million rubles ($46,700) in bribes from the CEO…
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday afternoon that was rushing reserve troops and aviation units into the southwestern Kursk region as Ukrainian forces staged a surprise incursion, which left at least 3 civilians dead and more than a dozen others injured. The Russian military said Ukrainian forces launched an attack with up to 300 soldiers, 11…
Two sleeper agents who returned to Russia as part of last week’s historic prisoner exchange spoke to state television about breaking the news to their Spanish-speaking children that they were Russian. Artyom Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, a married couple who spent years posing as Argentine expats in Slovenia while acting as “illegals,” returned to Russia…
A man was killed by an explosion inside his apartment on the west side of Moscow, police said Tuesday, with state media reporting that he was a retired soldier who had shown suicidal tendencies in the past. “A woman found her husband lying dead in the apartment of a residential building,” the Russian Interior Ministry’s…
Chepetsk Mechanical Plant, Joint-Stock Company (Chepetsk Mechanical Plant, JSC, a company of Rosatom Fuel Division in Glazov, Udmurtia Republic) arranged a pilot floor for commercial production of fuel claddings with chromium coating. This structural material is a possible solution for creating fuel of a new safety generation (ATF – Advanced Technology Fuel). The technology makes…
Russia has started sending advanced air defense systems and radars to Iran as it threatens to retaliate to the suspected Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the New York Times reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. Earlier, Iranian media reported that Tehran requested air defense systems, and two Iranian officials who spoke to…
Three utility company employees were arrested for safety violations related to a deadly gas explosion at an apartment block in the Sverdlovsk region, law enforcement authorities said Tuesday. At least 10 people including children were killed after a gas explosion ripped through a five-story panel building in the industrial city of Nizhny Tagil on Thursday.…
Bashneft (an enterprise of Rosneft Oil Company) spent more than 4.1 billion rubles on environmental projects in H1 2024, up almost 14% year-on-year
A man was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region, authorities said early Tuesday. Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the attack took place in the village of Novostroyevka-Vtoraya, which lies directly on the border with northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. “A Ukrainian military drone struck a moving vehicle,” Gladkov said, adding that…