Azerbaijan has extradited a Russian soldier accused of desertion at the request of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Azerbaijani officials reported on Thursday.

Russian forces launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Kyiv on Wednesday night. The most severe damage occurred in the city’s Sviatoshynskyi district, where a residential building was struck. Debris from downed drones also fell in the Holosiivskyi…

Donald Trump is aggressively pushing his version of a peace plan that he claims could bring an end to the active phase of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The most contentious element of the U.S. president’s proposal is Washington’s recognition of Russian…

U.S. President Donald Trump published a social media post criticizing Russia’s Wednesday night deadly missile and drone attack on Ukraine.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (the SVR) has accused Meduza, the Navalny-founded Anti-Corruption Foundation, and the investigative media outlet Proekt of being involved in a “campaign to undermine the peacemaking efforts” of U.S. President Donald Trump. 

The body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity last September, has been returned to Ukraine, Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Tymchenko said in an interview with the Ukrainian outlet Censor.net published on Thursday.

The Russian government declared 2024 the Year of the Family. In practice, this meant tighter restrictions on reproductive rights, including limiting access to certain emergency contraceptives, outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” and sending priests…

Despite massive military spending, tens of thousands of deaths, and a vast array of international sanctions, Russians’ sense of stability and life satisfaction has reached its highest level in the past decade, according to a new study by the Bank of Finland’s…

In Krasnodar, Russia, around one hundred soldiers detained on suspicion of desertion staged a riot in a bold escape attempt last week. Seven managed to break free — four were quickly recaptured, and three remain at large. RFE/RL’s Kavkaz.Realii looked into…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told CBS in an interview that some parts of the draft agreement aimed at resolving the conflict in Ukraine still “need to be fined tuned.”

A plane believed to be carrying U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.

Russian lawmakers Nina Ostanina, Andrey Svintsov, and Alexey Kornienko have drafted legislation that would ban advertising for various “new age” and mystical services and implement government mechanisms to identify and block any resources promoting such services.…

The U.K. is likely to drop its plans to deploy thousands of troops to help defend Ukraine, The Times reported Thursday, citing diplomatic sources.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russia is willing to make concessions to end the war in Ukraine — then cited not taking control of the entire country as one such concession.

During talks between Ukrainian, U.S., and European officials in London on Wednesday, Kyiv put forward five main demands for a future ceasefire agreement with Russia, The Telegraph reports.

A car exploded late Friday morning in the courtyard of an apartment building in Balashikha, a town just outside Moscow. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the blast killed General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate…

Michael Gloss, an American citizen and the son of CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Juliane Gallina Gloss, was killed in Ukraine while fighting in the Russian military last year, the independent outlet iStories reported on Friday. He was 21 years…

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended after about three hours.

Meduza’s publishing imprint has released a book to accompany “No,” our art exhibition opening at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien gallery in Berlin on April 26. Dedicated to everyone who still dares to resist, the book is not only a complete guide to the…

A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced artist and activist Alisa Gorshenina to 10 days in jail for allegedly displaying “extremist symbols,” the Telegram channel It’s My City reports.