The possibility of a nuclear disaster at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine remains “very real,” according to the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog. 

Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest, in March 2022 shortly after the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. 

Regular shelling and drone attacks around

Anti-war presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin said Thursday that he will not submit signatures endorsing his candidacy that were collected abroad to Russia's election authorities.

According to Russian election laws, a presidential hopeful running from a party not represented in parliament must collect 100,000 unique signatures endorsing his or her

A Moscow court on Friday extended the detention of American reporter Evan Gershkovich for two months. 

"The period of detention of Evan Gershkovich... is extended by two months... until March 30," the court said on the messaging app Telegram.

Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was arrested during a reporting trip at the end of