A Moscow court on Monday sentenced Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter Yanina Sokolova to eight years in prison in absentia for making public calls to kill Russians. In August 2022, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, accused Sokolova of “openly threatening the Russian people, emphasizing the need for their merciless destruction” during a television broadcast.…
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced French researcher Laurent Vinatier to three years in prison for breaking Russia’s laws on “foreign agents.” Vinatier, a 48-year-old researcher working for a Swiss conflict mediation NGO, was arrested in Moscow in June and charged with gathering information on Russia’s military without being registered as a “foreign agent,” a crime…
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The Kremlin said Monday it “categorically rejects” accusations from authorities in Moldova that it is interfering in the country’s upcoming presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union. “There are still many people in Moldova who support having good relations with our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “These people are being…
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The Kremlin said Monday it “categorically rejects” accusations from authorities in Moldova that it is interfering in the country’s upcoming presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union. “There are still many people in Moldova who support having good relations with our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “These people are being…
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Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in Beijing Monday for talks with his Chinese counterpart, who called for strengthening military cooperation between the two countries. Moscow and Beijing have forged closer ties since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, an alliance that has sparked anxiety in the West as both countries seek to…
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Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in Beijing Monday for talks with his Chinese counterpart, who called for strengthening military cooperation between the two countries. Moscow and Beijing have forged closer ties since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, an alliance that has sparked anxiety in the West as both countries seek to…
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Russia’s government plans to increase state maternity payments by around $500 next year as the country struggles with a shrinking number of births, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov said Monday. First-time mothers will receive a lump sum of 677,000 rubles ($7,000) starting in 2025, Kotyakov told a meeting of federal lawmakers, a modest increase from the…
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Russia’s government plans to increase state maternity payments by around $500 next year as the country struggles with a shrinking number of births, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov said Monday. First-time mothers will receive a lump sum of 677,000 rubles ($7,000) starting in 2025, Kotyakov told a meeting of federal lawmakers, a modest increase from the…
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Russia’s government plans to increase state maternity payments by around $500 next year as the country struggles with a shrinking number of births, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov said Monday. First-time mothers will receive a lump sum of 677,000 rubles ($7,000) starting in 2025, Kotyakov told a meeting of federal lawmakers, a modest increase from the…
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Russia’s government plans to increase state maternity payments by around $500 next year as the country struggles with a shrinking number of births, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov said Monday. First-time mothers will receive a lump sum of 677,000 rubles ($7,000) starting in 2025, Kotyakov told a meeting of federal lawmakers, a modest increase from the…
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A miner was confirmed killed following a rockslide at the Mokhovsky coal mine in western Siberia last week, Russian investigators said Monday. The miner had gone missing on Thursday after the rockslide buried him and another worker during excavation work at the open-pit coal mine in the Kemerovo region. Earlier, rescuers managed to pull one…
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A miner was confirmed killed following a rockslide at the Mokhovsky coal mine in western Siberia last week, Russian investigators said Monday. The miner had gone missing on Thursday after the rockslide buried him and another worker during excavation work at the open-pit coal mine in the Kemerovo region. Earlier, rescuers managed to pull one…
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A miner was confirmed killed following a rockslide at the Mokhovsky coal mine in western Siberia last week, Russian investigators said Monday. The miner had gone missing on Thursday after the rockslide buried him and another worker during excavation work at the open-pit coal mine in the Kemerovo region. Earlier, rescuers managed to pull one…
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A miner was confirmed killed following a rockslide at the Mokhovsky coal mine in western Siberia last week, Russian investigators said Monday. The miner had gone missing on Thursday after the rockslide buried him and another worker during excavation work at the open-pit coal mine in the Kemerovo region. Earlier, rescuers managed to pull one…
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Kyiv said Monday that its forces destroyed a Russian military transport plane stationed at an airfield deep inside Russian territory over the weekend. Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency said it had destroyed a Tu-134 transport aircraft overnight on Saturday. The plane was located at a military airfield in the Orenburg region, which lies around 1,000 kilometers…
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Ukrainian troops have forcibly taken more than 1,000 residents of southwestern Russia’s Kursk region since launching their incursion in early August, Russia’s presidential human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Monday. “I’ve received messages regarding more than 1,000 such people from relatives trying to find them,” Moskalkova told the Argumenty i Fakty pro-Kremlin newspaper. “We know…
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Ukrainian troops have forcibly taken more than 1,000 residents of southwestern Russia’s Kursk region since launching their incursion in early August, Russia’s presidential human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Monday. “I’ve received messages regarding more than 1,000 such people from relatives trying to find them,” Moskalkova told the Argumenty i Fakty pro-Kremlin newspaper. “We know…
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Ukrainian troops have forcibly taken more than 1,000 residents of southwestern Russia’s Kursk region since launching their incursion in early August, Russia’s presidential human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Monday. “I’ve received messages regarding more than 1,000 such people from relatives trying to find them,” Moskalkova told the Argumenty i Fakty pro-Kremlin newspaper. “We know…
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Russia on Sunday said it has captured another east Ukrainian village as it closes on the important city of Pokrovsk, where its forces have been advancing for weeks. Russian troops have moved westwards in the Donetsk region for months, with Kyiv saying this weekend that the situation was “very difficult.” Moscow’s Defense Ministry said its…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Moscow had attempted to push back Ukrainian positions in the Russian Kursk region but that Kyiv was “holding the line.” Ukraine has held on to swathes of Russia’s Kursk region since early August. “Regarding the Kursk operation, there were attempts by Russia to push back our positions, but…
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A fire at a petrol station in Russia’s Chechnya killed four people, including two children, emergency services said Saturday. Authorities released images of more than two dozen firefighters extinguishing the blaze at an almost totally destroyed petrol station with burnt-out cars in Chechnya’s main city, Grozny. “Unfortunately, four people died, including two children,” Russia’s Emergency…
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Russia and Ukraine traded attacks overnight, with Russian officials saying on Saturday that Ukrainian drone strikes had killed one person in the Belgorod border region. Russia said it had downed 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, while Ukraine reported it neutralized 24 drones fired by Moscow. The Ukrainian air force said many missiles were fired from Belgorod,…
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Today if you ask kids in Russia if they want a chocolate bar, they will immediately think you mean a Mars bar or Snickers or another kind of foreign candy bar. Many of these candies have been produced since the 1930s and are famous all over the world. While that’s true, before the 1917 Revolution…
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Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin’s top political opponent before his death in February, believed he would die in prison, according to his posthumous memoir which will be released on October 22. The New Yorker published excerpts from the book Friday, featuring writing from Navalny’s diary before and after his imprisonment. “I…
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October 11, 2024, 19:40 St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024, which took place at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Centre starting from October 8, concluded today. More than 34,000 people representing 54 countries (Russia and 53 states of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America) took part in the SPIGF, which is a record-high number of participants for the forum. SPIGF 2024 also featured…
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October 11, 2024, 19:10 A unique multifunctional mobile inspection robot of Russian make was presented at the exhibition of St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The robot is designed to carry out routine inspections at production facilities. It is equipped with a gas analyzer and can independently perform scanning to detect methane leaks where required. Another peculiar feature of the new product is its multifunctional platform, which makes…
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A Russian court on Friday ordered the arrest in absentia of CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from Ukrainian-held territory in Russia’s Kursk region. Moscow has launched several criminal proceedings against Western journalists who had produced reports from the Kursk region after Kyiv’s surprise August incursion. It has charged them with illegally crossing the…
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A Russian court has ordered the seizure of JPMorgan Chase’s assets as part of a lawsuit by Russia’s second-largest bank VTB to regain its funds blocked abroad by sanctions, Reuters reported Friday, citing court documents. The St. Petersburg Arbitration Court ruled to seize $155.8 million in any currency from all JPMorgan bank accounts, according to…
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Dozens of residents of a small village in Russia’s republic of Sakha (Yakutia) protested against local authorities on Wednesday after a 12-year-old local girl died from injuries sustained in an attack by a pack of stray dogs. “We came here to demand at least some action,” a local resident who attended the protest told the…
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Russia on Friday sentenced a Siberian man to 18 years in prison for planning an arson attack on an army office. It also sentenced two men in a region near Moscow to 16 years for setting railways on fire allegedly on the orders of Ukraine. Moscow saw a wave of arson attacks on military enlistment…
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Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday hailed their “close” views on world affairs, with the Russian leader saying ties with Tehran were a “priority” for Moscow. The pair held a meeting in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most secretive states, amid soaring tensions in the Middle East, with Israeli air strikes on…
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Russia has raised the so-called “exit tax” and the minimum discount for foreign companies seeking to pull out of the country, the RBC news website reported Thursday, citing three anonymous sources familiar with the new rules and one lawyer. Russia has since December 2022 forced foreign companies to sell their assets to Russian buyers at steep…
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A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Moscow while reporting from occupied east Ukraine has died in Russian detention, a Ukrainian official said Thursday. Victoria Roshchyna, who would have turned 28 this month, disappeared in August last year after traveling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report. She remained missing until April 2024, when her…
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A jet fire at a major oil terminal in the port city of Feodosia in Russian-annexed Crimea has been put out five days after Ukrainian missile strikes there, its Russian-installed Mayor Igor Tkachenko said Friday. “As of 8 a.m. there’s no jet fire on the territory of the oil terminal,” Tkachenko wrote on Telegram, saying…
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October 11, 2024, 12:45 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, took place today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The parties discussed the ongoing implementation of their agreement on scientific & technical cooperation and the status of the innovative projects that are being carried out by the…
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Russian strikes overnight on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa killed four people, including a teenage girl, and wounded 10 more, the regional governor said Friday. Russia has targeted Ukraine’s coastal Odesa region throughout the war, hitting cargo ships and grain silos in what Kyiv says is an attempt to destroy its export capacity. “The…
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A Message from The Moscow Times: Dear readers, We are facing unprecedented challenges. Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has designated The Moscow Times as an “undesirable” organization, criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution. This follows our earlier unjust labeling as a “foreign agent.” These actions are direct attempts to silence independent…
DetailsPietro Barabaschi, Director-General of the ITER International Organization, reviewed the process of development and manufacturing of key Russian systems for the international thermonuclear reactor in St. Petersburg on October 9, within the framework of his official visit to the Russian Federation. The first point of ITER Director-General’s visit was Efremov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical…
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October 10, 2024, 21:05 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Vitaly Khotsenko, Governor of the Omsk Region, took place today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The parties reviewed the key areas of cooperation. Particular attention was paid to the ongoing implementation of the 2021–2025 program for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the Omsk Region. In the…
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Background St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024 is being held at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Centre on October 8–11. In June 2023, Gazprom and the Republic of Uzbekistan signed the two-year Contract for Russian gas supplies to Uzbekistan and the Roadmap for preparing the gas transmission system of Uzbekistan for the reception and transmission of Russian pipeline gas. October 2023 saw the start of Russian natural gas…
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His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands on Thursday visited the Amsterdam newsrooms of The Moscow Times and the independent Russian news broadcaster TV Rain. In a meeting open to the press, the King was joined by The Moscow Times founder Derk Sauer and publisher Alexander Gubsky as well as TV Rain editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko…
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At least 49 Russian citizens are currently being held in mental hospitals as a form of punishment against opposition and other activists, the human rights group Memorial said Thursday. The practice of punitive psychiatry in Russia dates back to the Soviet Union. “Russian authorities use mental health issues as a pretext for repression against anyone…
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October 10, 2024, 18:35 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Viktor Karankevich, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, took place today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. Particular attention at the meeting was paid to the ongoing preparation of the republic’s gas supply facilities for the autumn/winter period. At present, Gazprom is completing the implementation of the…
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October 10, 2024, 18:25 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Türkiye, took place today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The parties discussed the current matters and prospects of their cooperation in the gas sector, including the project for the creation of an international gas hub.…
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A major fire at an oil refinery in Russian-annexed Crimea has sparked complaints from local residents, raising concerns over safety and environmental impact. Kyiv’s forces reported a “successful strike” on an offshore oil terminal near the Black Sea port town of Feodosia on Monday, sparking a fire that prompted local authorities to evacuate over 1,000…
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October 10, 2024, 17:45 A number of documents pertaining to the training of specialists for the gas sector were signed today in the presence of Alexey Miller at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, the Amur Region Government and Amur State University signed an Agreement of Cooperation. The parties intend to join forces in training professionals who are in demand by the enterprises of the Amur…
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Background Gazprom’s main partner in China is CNPC, a state-owned oil and gas company. In 2014, Gazprom and CNPC signed the 30-year Sales and Purchase Agreement for 38 billion cubic meters of gas per year to be supplied via the eastern route (Power of Siberia gas pipeline). The ceremony marking the start of the first-ever pipeline supplies of Russian gas to China took place on December 2, 2019. The long-term…
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October 10, 2024, 17:30 A number of documents to expand cooperation between Gazprom and Russian industrial enterprises were signed today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The documents are aimed at strengthening the potential of Russian manufacturers and increasing the production of advanced products for the fuel and energy complex. Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Evraev, Governor…
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A new investigation by the Associated Press details how Russia has lured dozens of young African women to produce drones for its invasion of Ukraine. Drawn to Russia by promises of plane tickets, education, higher salaries and a “European” adventure, the young women instead end up at a drone plant in the Alabuga Special Economic…
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Riga was the first stop on a tour of a new play written and directed by Dmitry Krymov starring just two actors: Maxim Sukhanov and Chulpan Khamatova. It is called “Notes of the Mad,” invoking the tradition of literary works about mad Russians that began two centuries ago with Nikolai Gogol. The premiere began with…
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Russia said Thursday its missiles had struck two launchers of a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine. Kyiv is reliant on Western air defense systems, particularly Patriots, to protect itself from the barrage of Russian missiles and has been calling for more deliveries. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces struck “two Patriot launcher…
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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Thursday to extend Russia’s visa-free regime for Georgian citizens, as the countries have drawn closer in recent years. In May 2023, Putin lifted a flight ban and introduced a 90-day visa-free regime for Georgian citizens. His latest edict abolishes the 90-day limit and the need to obtain a work…
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The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed claims that then-U.S. President Donald Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid tests but said it was part of an international exchange at the start of the pandemic. U.S. journalist Bob Woodward wrote in a book, “War,” published Tuesday, that Trump secretly sent Covid test kits to Putin despite a…
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The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed a claim by Seoul that North Korean soldiers were likely to be fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine. “This seems like yet another fake news story,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented to journalists without elaborating. Ukraine’s Kyiv Post reported Friday that six North Korean military officers had been killed in…
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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Thursday relieving Anatoly Antonov from his post as Moscow’s ambassador to the United States amid historic lows in U.S.-Russia relations. Antonov, 69, had headed the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington since 2017 and returned to Russia over the weekend. A staunch supporter of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, Antonov said in…
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British consumer goods giant Unilever on Thursday completed the sale of Unilever Russia, finally joining other multinationals in exiting the country following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Unilever said in a statement that it had offloaded the subsidiary to Arnest Group, a Russian manufacturer of perfume, cosmetics and household products, for an undisclosed…
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Ukrainian forces will be able to hold onto territory captured during their incursion into western Russia’s Kursk region for several months or longer, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a U.S. assessment shared by senior American officials. Ukraine launched its offensive into the border region on Aug. 6, claiming to control 100 settlements and almost 1,300 square…
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The toll from a Russian ballistic missile strike on port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region rose to eight dead and nine wounded, authorities said Thursday. The attack on Wednesday struck a civilian container ship flying the flag of Panama, according to the region’s Governor Oleh Kiper. “The death toll as a result of yesterday’s…
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has declared a “blood feud” against three federal lawmakers from neighboring North Caucasus republics in his first comments on last month’s deadly shooting outside the Moscow headquarters of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries. Kadyrov has vowed to help Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of Wildberries CEO Tatiana Kim — Russia’s wealthiest woman…
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Russia’s military said on Thursday that it had shot down a barrage of 92 Ukrainian drones overnight, most of them over the country’s southwest. Russia reports shooting down Ukrainian drones over its territory on a nearly daily basis, but usually in smaller numbers. Kyiv said it was carrying out the strikes, which often target energy…
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