A Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday.

Moscow has pummelled Ukrainian cities with dozens of drones or missiles almost daily since it invaded in early 2022.

Images distributed by the emergency services showed a gaping hole in

Write comment (99 Comments)

Moscow police arrested “several” former deputies of exiled former Kremlin aide and veteran reformer Anatoly Chubais, Russian media reported Thursday, citing anonymous law enforcement sources.

The arrested individuals face charges of abuse of power, sources told the state-run news agency TASS.

Unconfirmed reports from the Telegram news channel

Write comment (95 Comments)

Police authorities in Kyrgyzstan said Thursday that they apprehended a believed arms trafficker who belongs to a criminal group that has shipped more than 300 weapons from the United States to Russia given that April 2022. The Central Asian country's cops said they captured the suspect red-handed receiving a package of parts for a rifle and

Write comment (95 Comments)

The Trump administration's abrupt freeze on foreign aid has actually plunged exiled Russian NGOs and media outlets into uncertainty, threatening their funding and posturing what some are describing as the best challenge to Russian civil society because the Kremlin enacted its unwanted company law a decade ago.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is

Write comment (93 Comments)

A researcher from Russia’s presidential historical society has proposed renaming the Gulf of Finland to the “Gulf of St. Petersburg,” citing U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as precedent.

“Why do we call it the Gulf of Finland?” Mikhail Myagkov, research director at the Russian Military History Soc

Write comment (98 Comments)

An activist who picketed in support of her missing Chechen pal has vanished after being apprehended by cops in St. Petersburg, the human rights group NC SOS said Thursday.Lena Patyayeva staged a protest on Wednesday, slamming what she described as authorities' sluggish investigation into the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova. Patyayeva befr

Write comment (97 Comments)