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…

An explosion occurred in Russia’s Vladimir region, in the Kirzhachsky District, according to Governor Alexander Avdeyev. He did not share further details, saying only that “emergency services are working at the scene.”

Russia’s Black Sea beaches in Anapa have been declared unfit for swimming following last December’s oil spill in the Kerch Strait. Four months on, oil continues to wash ashore, and piles of contaminated sand lie exposed outside the city — even as children…

Sources familiar with a meeting earlier this month between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, told The Financial Times on Tuesday that Russia’s president has offered to “halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line…

The Russian military launched an overnight drone attack on Marhanets in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Governor Serhii Lysak. Nine people were killed and 30 injured, he said, noting that the strike hit a bus carrying workers.

The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Ukraine have postponed planned peace talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine that were scheduled to take place in London on April 23, Sky News reported.

At the planned talks with U.S. and European officials in London that were scheduled for Wednesday, Ukraine’s delegates wanted to discuss a 30-day ceasefire, not Trump’s proposed peace plan, according to new reporting from Axios.

The Council of Europe has finished drafting the concept for a special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials over the war in Ukraine, Deutsche Welle reports. However, there’s still a long road ahead: the U.S. appears to have…

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, American luxury cars were supposed to be off-limits to sanctioned individuals like Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Western restrictions ban the import of vehicles worth more than $50,000. And yet, in…

More than a year into the invasion of Ukraine, in September 2023, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had no need for foreign mercenaries. The nation’s homegrown supply of fighting men was more than enough, he explained. However, according to a new investigation…

Last week, during a meeting in Paris with Ukrainian and European officials, a U.S. delegation led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio put forward its proposal for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now, Axios has reported the details of the plan, citing sources…

Russian lawmakers have drafted legislation that would ban advertising for “mystic practices, energy healing, and spiritual counseling.” A bill co-authored by Communist Party deputy Nina Ostanina, chair of the Duma’s Committee on Family, Fatherhood, Motherhood…

Russian federal regulators have imposed a one-year ban on new student admissions at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (better known as “Shaninka”), citing the school’s failure to comply with an official order to correct previously identified…

In an exchange of social media posts on Wednesday, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky butted heads over the status of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2024. The U.S. president accused his Ukrainian counterpart of “harming peace negotiations…