Russia will suspend electricity supplies to Finland this weekend, a supplier said on Friday as tensions rise over Helsinki's NATO bid following the conflict in Ukraine.

"We are forced to suspend the electricity import starting from May 14," said RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Russian state energy holding Inter RAO that sells its electricity on the

An award-winning artist said Friday that he fled Russia after security forces uncovered his plan to disrupt the country's annual Victory Day parade with a peaceful protest against the war in Ukraine.

Danila Tkachenko said he purchased 140 blue-and-yellow smoke grenades and installed them in air conditioners that he placed outside an apartment

A Russian court on Friday extended the pre-trial detention on drug charges of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, state media reported.

Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, was detained at Moscow airport in February on charges of carrying in her luggage vape cartridges with cannabis oil, which could carry a 10-year prison

The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) on Friday confirmed the suspension of Russia's TASS agency for not respecting its standards.

The decision came during the EANA's general assembly in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, the alliance's president Clemens Pig told reporters.

In February, three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, EANA's executive