As Israel marks the first anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack amid fears of a wider war erupting in the Middle East, Russians who fled to Israel following the invasion of Ukraine told The Moscow Times they have little interest in returning to their homeland. The anniversary of Oct. 7 comes as Israel…
news Court Freezes Shares of Raiffeisen’s Russian Division, Delaying Sale Read more This deal was linked to RBI’s efforts to exit Russia, as the acquisition would be paid for out of some 1.6 billion euros worth of trapped RBI profits in the country. If the deal had gone through, it would have meant that even if RBI…
A Russian court has sentenced a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman to eight years in prison for allegedly plotting an explosion on the day that Russia claimed to have annexed four Ukrainian regions, the independent news website Mediazona reported Monday, citing her lawyer. Irina Navalnaya was detained by occupying authorities in Mariupol in September 2022 on suspicion of attempted terrorism…
Children in schools and kindergartens across Russia appear to have been forced to wish President Vladimir Putin a happy 72nd birthday Monday in closely matching videos, media outlets reported. The opposition Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit said it found similar flash mobs on social media posts in at least 11 Russian regions. The independent news website Vyorstka…
President Vladimir Putin has stopped visiting his residence in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi due to fears of a fatal drone attack, the independent investigative outlet Proekt reported Monday. Putin has been spending at least 30 days per year at the Bocharov Ruchey residence since it was renovated for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and likely…
A Russian court sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine to nearly seven years in prison on Monday. Stephen Hubbard was sentenced to six years and 10 months by the Moscow City Court. The bearded defendant stood uneasily as the sentence was read out. He was convicted of serving…
Southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region is offering a nationwide record of 3 million rubles ($31,200) in one-time payments for signing military contracts to fight in Ukraine, authorities said Monday. “The payment will amount to 3 million rubles from all sources: the federal, regional, municipal budgets and extra-budgetary funds,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said at a regional administration…
ROSATOM will train 18 young specialists from the Plurinational State of Bolivia for the research reactor operation at the Center for Nuclear Technology Research and Development, which is under construction in El Alto. Their training will start in the very near future at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). The grant-aided students will take a training course…
On October 6, 2024, works on installation of the core catcher body commenced at Unit 3 of El-Dabaa NPP in the Arab Republic of Egypt (the General Designer and General Contractor is ROSATOM State Corporation Engineering Division). The core catcher is long-lead equipment; it consists of several elements with the total weight of 480 tons,…
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed the “Merchant of Death,” has made a comeback to the arms trading business and is seeking to broker sales of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Bout, 57, was freed in a December 2022 prisoner swap with U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner.…
Hackers targeted Russian state media giant VGTRK on Monday, disrupting its online broadcasting, the state-run Gazeta.ru news outlet reported. VGTRK operates several national television channels, including Rossia 1 and Rossia 24, in addition to more than 80 regional television and radio stations. “Online broadcasting and internal services are down, even the internet and telephones are…
Ukraine insists the strikes are fair retaliation for Russian attacks on its own energy infrastructure that have plunged millions into darkness. Russia’s Defense Ministry meanwhile claimed the capture of a village in eastern Ukraine close to the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. Missiles target Kyiv The Defense Ministry in a briefing said it captured the…