Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, announced Sunday that the State Duma plans to begin reviewing a bill in mid-May that would “tighten administrative liability for those residing abroad.”

Russian propagandists still haven't kicked their nasty habit of accusing foreign leaders of doing cocaine. Late last week, when a video of the French, British, and German leaders on a train to Kyiv appeared to show a small white bag, Internet users quickly…

Russian journalist Irina Pankratova passed away after a prolonged illness on May 10. She was 39 years old.

Poland has decided to close the Russian consulate in Kraków, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced on Monday.

In 2025, the Kremlin is marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany with particular fanfare. One of the centerpiece projects is the “SVO Museum,” a new exhibition in Moscow dedicated to Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.…

On Monday, a Moscow court heard closing arguments in the criminal case against Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election-monitoring group Golos. He faces up to six years in prison for allegedly organizing the activities of an “undesirable”…

On Monday, a London court sentenced six Bulgarian nationals to prison on charges of spying for Russia, the BBC reports. Orlin Rusev, the group’s leader, got the longest sentence: 10 years and eight months. The others received prison terms ranging from five…

In the city of Cherkessk, in Russia’s North Caucasus, near the border with Georgia, a court has sentenced Alexey Safonov, the former traffic police chief of Stavropol Krai, to 20 years in prison for running an organized criminal group, accepting bribes, and…

European leaders plan to press U.S. President Donald Trump to make good on his threat of new sanctions against Russia if Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on May 15 or fails to agree to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire…

Donald Trump has “issued an ultimatum” to Russia and Ukraine, saying that Washington will leave the negotiating table if they don’t engage in direct talks soon, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff told Breitbart in an interview published Monday.

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has formally found Russia responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, the Dutch Foreign Ministry announced.

Russian General Sergey Surovikin, the ex-commander of Russia's invasion forces in Ukraine who disappeared from the public eye in 2023, is now working in Algeria, according to pro-war Telegram channels.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not meet with any Russian representatives in Istanbul except President Vladimir Putin, senior Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview on The Breakfast Show.

Meduza’s 10th anniversary exhibition, “No,” is currently open to the public at Berlin’s Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien gallery. The show, which is dedicated to everyone to dares to resist, brings together artists and journalists alike to reflect on themes…

Ten former convicts who had signed contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry and were due to be sent to fight in Ukraine have escaped from a military training ground near Rostov, according to the news site DonDay and the local outlet 161.ru.

Whether Donald Trump travels to Istanbul to join the May 15 talks between Russia and Ukraine will depend largely on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the meeting, CNN reports, citing a White House official.

In early February 2025, Russia launched a nationwide registry of “controlled individuals,” a system used to track foreign nationals deemed to be living in the country without legal status. Being added to the list comes with sweeping restrictions: individuals…

Volodymyr Zelensky says he will fly to Turkey and wait there for Vladimir Putin, aiming to resume direct negotiations on Thursday, May 15. If the Russian president shows up, U.S. President Donald Trump has said he’ll join, too. Put simply, what happens next…

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and presidential aide Yuri Ushakov will represent Russia at negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, a former senior Kremlin official told The Washington Post. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda had previously reported…

Western schemes to unravel Russia’s spiritual fabric have reached new depths, according to lawmaker Yana Lantratova, chair of the State Duma’s Public and Religious Associations Committee. At a plenary session on Tuesday, Lantratova described religion as Russia’s…