President Vladimir Putin’s youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova has been appointed to oversee Russia’s struggling import substitution program at a leading business lobby group, the RBC news website reported Wednesday. 

Western sanctions and the exit of Western companies following the invasion of Ukraine mean Russia has seen a collapse in imports

Russia’s replacement for McDonald’s restaurants has banned visitors from charging phones and taking pictures inside, media reported Tuesday.

The series of changes at the new franchise, including a French fries shortage, follow the U.S. fast-food giant’s sale of its 850 restaurants to a Russian businessman in May over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against Ilya Yashin, one of the last opposition figures remaining in the country, for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian army, his lawyer said Tuesday.

"I got a call from an investigator – they are beginning to search his home," lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on Facebook.

In June,