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…

A Moscow court has fined the messaging service Telegram 4 million rubles (almost $50,000) for refusing to remove content prohibited under Russian law, according to the news outlet RBC. Officials didn’t specify what materials Telegram refused to censor. Since…

A court in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region has sentenced a 27-year-old resident of Lesnoy to 12 years in a strict regime prison colony on charges of treason for reportedly transferring money to support Ukraine’s military, Mediazona reported.

A Moscow court has posthumously charged Mikhail Khachaturyan, the father of three daughters accused of killing him in 2018, with sexually abusing them, according to Russian state media.

Russian forces launched an overnight drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Odesa, according to Governor Oleh Kiper.

Zurab Tsereteli, a Russian-Georgian painter and sculptor who served as president of the Russian Academy of Arts, has died at the age of 91, according to state media.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the sovereign wealth fund led by Kirill Dmitriev, who has been a key player in negotiations with the Trump administration, has suspended its internship program, Novaya Gazeta reports, citing sources familiar with…

Russian forces carried out an attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, according to the region’s governor, Ivan Fedorov.

Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has overseen a rapid thaw in relations with Moscow. Among the more curious points of alignment: a renewed focus on the Arctic. Despite Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine — the very conflict that fractured…