A queer bar in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has been fined for “LGBT propaganda,” local policesaid Thursday, a month after the bar announced its closure over police raids.

Krasnoyarsk’s Sovetsky District Court found the legal entity that owns the bar Elton guilty of the administrative charges and fined it 450,000 rubles ($4,800), according to a

Russian police have detained at least two independent journalists on “extremism” charges in connection with a criminal case against the late opposition activist Alexei Navalny, media outlets reported.

According to the independent broadcaster Sotavision, its photojournalist Antonina Favorskaya wasdetained for a second time late Wednesday after

Russia's spy chief visited Pyongyang earlier this week to discuss security cooperation, North Korea's state news agency reported Thursday, as the historical allies deepen ties amid Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, met with North Korea's State Security Minister Ri Chang Dae during his