Russia is conducting a large-scale modernization of the underground silos that store its missiles with strategic nuclear warheads, journalists from the Danish investigative project Danwatch and the German publication Der Spiegel have discovered. The investigation…

A court in Moscow has sentenced former Kazan Federal University president Ilshat Gafurov to 22 years in prison for inciting and orchestrating the 1999 murder of Aidar Israfilov, who was killed amid a dispute over municipal revenue from market fees. At the…

Police in the Russian city of Kovrov (roughly 175 miles northeast of Moscow) have arrested three members of a far-right organization on charges of aggravated kidnapping. The suspects are reportedly local men in their late twenties and early thirties who belong…

A veteran of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Zaur Gurtsiev, was killed in an explosion in Stavropol, Russia. After returning from the front, Gurtsiev joined the “Time of Heroes” program — a Kremlin initiative aimed at placing war veterans in government roles — and…

Authorities in St. Petersburg, Russia, have proposed banning foreign nationals from working as taxi drivers and couriers through the end of the year, according to a draft order by Governor Alexander Beglov published on the city’s official website.

In April 2025, Kommersant journalist Alexander Chernykh declined the most prestigious prize recognizing independent Russian journalism, Redkollegia. He’d won the award for a report from Russia’s Kursk region, which had recently spent more than seven months…

At a meeting with business leaders on May 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised the management of Vkusno i tochka (the fast-food chain that replaced McDonald’s restaurants in Russia) that he would support the company if McDonald’s ever tried to return…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday that he has not ruled out the possibility of supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus cruise missiles.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Thursday that Serbian defense companies continue to supply ammunition to Kyiv “in defiance of Belgrade’s officially declared ‘neutrality.’”

China has halted drone sales to Ukraine and other European countries but continues to supply Russia, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing statements from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other informed sources.

Late last week, Russia and Ukraine carried out their largest prisoner exchange since the start of the full-scale war, with each side handing over 1,000 people. Moscow and Kyiv agreed to the swap during peace talks in Istanbul on May 16 — negotiations that…

The first deputy mayor of Stavropol was killed in an explosion on Wednesday night. Zaur Gurtsiev, 34, joined his hometown’s city government after participating in the Kremlin’s “Time of Heroes” program, which the Putin administration launched to promote war…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has responded to accusations from Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service that Serbian defense enterprises continue to supply ammunition to Ukraine, calling some of the allegations false. In recent remarks cited by the local…

Sanctions have significantly hindered the flow of fresh foreign currency into Russian banks, leaving both the institutions and their customers with a surplus of “old-series” dollars issued before 2009. Many foreign exchange offices reject these bills or agree…

Russian forces carried out a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Thursday night, according to local authorities and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

The United States considers Russia’s concerns about NATO’s potential eastward expansion to be “fair,” U.S. presidential envoy Keith Kellogg said in an interview with ABC News on Thursday.

Moscow’s foreign policy has zeroed in on Africa in recent years. The shift is partially due to commercial interests, including access to resources like gold, uranium, and bauxite. But it’s also political: having broken ties with the West, Russia is rapidly…

On May 19, three days after Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Istanbul for their first direct talks in over three years, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump held a phone call. Afterwards, Putin announced that Moscow was…

Explosions in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Friday morning were the result of a “successful operation” by Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, according to RBC-Ukraine, UNIAN, and Hromadske, all of which cited informed sources.

As Ukrainian officials wait for a promised memorandum on Russia’s vision for a peace treaty, Russia's permanent representative to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya, told the U.N. Security Council on May 30 that Moscow’s “minimum” terms for a ceasefire deal are that…