Russian forces pressed further toward encircling the Ukrainian stronghold of Vuhledar in recent days, sparking worries that a key defensive outpost for Kyiv could soon fall into Russian hands. On Wednesday, British intelligence reported that Russian troops had closed in on Vuhledar from three directions, threatening to cut off the last remaining roadway out of…
The co-chair of an independent Russian election monitoring watchdog, Grigory Melkonyants, went on trial Friday accused of cooperation with an “undesirable” organization. The trial of the co-leader of Golos, one of Russia’s most prominent rights movements, comes as Moscow has intensified its crackdown on critical voices since launching its offensive in Ukraine. Melkonyants, who denies…
An explosion tore through a service station in Russia’s Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring 10 others, the emergency situations ministry said. Two children were among the dead, the ministry added on social media network Telegram. A previous ministry statement put the toll at five dead and three…
Gazprom, once Russia’s most profitable company, has dropped out of Forbes Russia’s 2024 top 100 list, the business magazine wrote Friday. “Last year’s leader Gazprom fell off the list with a record loss of 583 billion rubles [$6.3 billion] in 2023,” Forbes Russia wrote. However, it noted that the record loss was “more on paper,”…
The Russian judge who convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich said the trial was short because the court did not examine any “material evidence” and the verdict did not take long because he could “type quickly.” “The case itself was small. I don’t remember how many folders there were, three or five,” Judge Andrei…
Finland will place a key NATO base less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from its eastern border with Russia, a move that Helsinki says will “send a message” to Moscow, the Finnish Defense Ministry said Friday. Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia, became a NATO member last year, dropping decades of military…
A bill submitted to the Russian parliament has raised fears that the thousands of Russian dissidents seeking political refuge in post-Soviet and other non-Western states could soon be at risk of arrest and extradition back to Russia. The bill, recently introduced to the lower-house State Duma by the ruling United Russia party, would allow prosecutors…
The Inner Containment is one of the key elements that ensures the nuclear and environmental safety of the facility Dr. Amged El Wakeel, Board Chairman of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority, announced on 26 September 2024 the Nuclear Power Plants Authority witnessed the installation of the first tier of the Inner Containment of the reactor…
High school students in Russia’s Far East were shown a graphic video of a medical abortion video during an unannounced lecture, the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported Friday. “Many felt sick while watching,” the outlet wrote, citing students from school No. 7 in the Sakhalin region town of Okha, around 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles)…
Russian law enforcement authorities arrested the manager of a Russian defense contractor, accusing him of defrauding the military by supplying substandard equipment, Russia’s Investigative Committee said Friday. Vladislav Pylsky, who manages a subsidiary of the Siberian Navigation Company, allegedly provided the military with goods that “did not meet technical requirements,” costing the armed forces 164 million rubles ($1.76…
Russian prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Alexander Permyakov, who is accused of trying to assassinate pro-war nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, the independent news website Mediazona reported Friday. Permyakov was arrested last May after a car bomb wounded Prilepin and killed his security guard in the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to his lawyer, Permyakov…
U.S. intelligence officials believe Russia could retaliate with lethal force if the Biden administration allows Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike deep within Russian territory, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The warning comes as President Vladimir Putin this week announced plans to revise Russia’s nuclear weapons…
A Moscow court has begun hearings into a 72-year-old American man accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, state media reported Friday. The state news agency RIA Novosti identified the man as Stefan Hubbard, though another possible spelling of his name could be Stephen Hubbard. In May, a Facebook user named Trisha Hubbard Fox…
Russian authorities may soon block the popular messaging platform Discord, the Kommersant business daily reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Discord, which allows users to communicate in virtual communities known as “servers,” is widely used by gamers, students and cryptocurrency traders. It reportedly has between 29 and 40 million active users in Russia.…
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) pressed criminal charges against two Australian journalists and one Romanian journalist for illegally crossing the border into the southwestern Kursk region while on reporting assignments, state media reported Friday. Authorities in Russia have so far charged 12 foreign journalists over their work in the Kursk region following a surprise incursion…
September 26, 2024 – Büyükeceli, Mersin, Türkiye. ROSATOM management delegation headed by Director General Alexey Likhachev visited Akkuyu nuclear power plant construction site in Türkiye. Likhachev held a meeting with the project management and examined the progress at the main facilities of the first start-up complex. ROSATOM’s executives were accompanied at the site by Anton…