Russia’s Supreme Court has removed the Taliban from the country’s list of terrorist organizations, lifting a designation Moscow imposed in 2003, after the group was added to a corresponding list by the U.N. Security Council. In a session closed to the public…

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced this week that the country is now fully independent from the Druzhba oil pipeline for the first time in 60 years. The Czech Republic has started receiving increased shipments of non-Russian oil via the Transalpine…

U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators have signed a memorandum indicating their intent to reach a mineral resources agreement, Ukrainian Economy Minister Yuliya Svyrydenko announced on Thursday.

For several months, a fierce debate has raged in Russian opposition circles over the funding of political organizations, encompassing everything from the ideal level of transparency for anti-Kremlin groups to verboten sources of money. In collaboration with…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Paris on Friday that President Donald Trump is perhaps days from abandoning his administration’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told journalists on Friday that there are no grounds to support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim that Beijing is supplying weapons to Moscow. “China has never provided lethal weapons to either party…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced the end of Russia’s 30-day moratorium on strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. “At present, there have been no further instructions from the supreme commander-in-chief, President Putin,” Peskov told…

A day after his predecessor was arrested for embezzlement, acting Kursk Governor Alexander Khinshtein had his office blessed by an Orthodox priest. “Recent developments have made it clear how deeply sinfulness has taken root within these walls,” Khinshtein…

Officials in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region have recommended military service as an alternative to expulsion for failing students in a scheme that would offer academic leave instead. Earlier this week, an independent student union published a letter from the…

President Donald Trump has echoed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s warning that America is poised to abandon its diplomatic efforts in Ukraine if Moscow and Kyiv can’t show progress in the near future. “There’s no specific number of days, but we want…

The Civil Enlightenment Bulletin recently published a policy essay by Alexander Kharichev, the head of the Putin administration’s team responsible for “monitoring social trends.” In the article, which reads like a blueprint for building Putinism, Kharichev…

On April 16, 2025, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service issued a head-turning press release warning that “Eurofascism” has returned and again become “the common enemy of Moscow and Washington.” The text appeared on the agency’s official website with a Soviet…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he hopes Russia and Ukraine will “make a deal” in the coming week.

During an Easter service at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral held on Saturday night, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill referred to the holiday as a “victory day.”

The U.S. has proposed designating the area around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as a neutral zone and placing it under Washington’s control, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing Western officials.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Kyiv had recorded 2,935 violations of the “Easter ceasefire” declared by Russia. Writing on Telegram, he cited a report from Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

Russian forces are continuing their offensive near Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. In its Monday morning update, Ukraine’s General Staff reported that Russian troops had launched 39 attacks on the Pokrovsk front over the previous 24 hours — more than…

In his February 2024 address to Russia’s Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin called for veterans of the war in Ukraine to become the country’s “new elites” and to hold “leading positions” in government. In the approximately 14 months since then, this initiative…

Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Monday that Russia has repeatedly attacked civilian sites in Ukraine, arguing that these strikes target Ukrainian soldiers and military infrastructure staged in residential and commercial areas. In comments to state television…

Two Russian companies that leased 15 mines in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions — Impex-Don and the Don Coal Trading House — have relinquished nine of the mines after determining that high operating costs and current global coal prices render…