A Russian tennis player has avoided a Wimbledon ban on all competitors from her country by changing her nationality to Georgian, according to a report in The Times newspaper.

Natela Dzalamidze, a 29-year-old doubles player ranked No. 44 in the world, will compete in the women's doubles with Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic when the tournament starts on

Russia exported a record 8.42 million tons of discounted crude oil to China in May amid Western sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Reuters reported Monday.  

That amounts to 1.98 million barrels per day (bpd), up from 1.59 million bpd in April, according to Chinese customs data cited by the news agency.

Russia displaced Saudi Arabia as the

Russia plans to expand its high-tech surveillance program to areas near Ukraine amid a spate of cross-border attacks during Moscow’s nearly four-month invasion, the Kommersant daily reported Monday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the project.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry plans to deploy the “Safe City” program in annexed Crimea, as well as th

Gennady Burbulis, a close associate of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin who was one of the signatories to an agreement ending the Soviet Union, died Sunday aged 76.

Burbulis was first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federative Socialist Republic when he helped draft and signed the Belovezha Accords, which declared the end of the