LVIV, Ukraine-- Alisa * is on the train back to Ukraine for the very first time because the major intrusion. She lives in Prague with her two kids, and is returning to Lviv to see her mom. It's not safe here, she shrugs. But no place is safe. Marta * from Cherniv keeps an eye out at the flat landscape-- fields of spent wheat, birch trees and i
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Russia in November made its biggest regular monthly territorial gains in the war in Ukraine because March 2022, according to an AFP analysis of information from the U.S. Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on Monday.Kremlin forces advanced over 725 square kilometers of Ukrainian area, generally in the east near the city of Pokrovsk-- up from 610 square k
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused Western countries of wanting a ceasefire in Ukraine so they might rearm Kyiv with sophisticated weapons.Talk of settlements for a ceasefire or peace deal in the three-year dispute has come to the fore following Donald Trump's triumph in last month's U.S. governmental election.The West is
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Russian authorities remain in talks with the leading grocery store again on rate controls ahead of the end-of-the-year holiday season. The Kremlin is particularly fretted about the skyrocketing rate of mayonnaise.The Kommersant business daily reported that the country's largest mayonnaise manufacturer, Essen Production, alerted that retailers would trek rates
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Russian law enforcement authorities have launched more than 30,000 criminal and administrative cases for social media posts, shares and “likes” since 2010, the independent news website Novaya Gazeta Europereported Monday.

Citing publicly available data from Russian courts between 2010 and October 2024, the outlet said around 1,200 of the 30,000

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has actually delayed up until more notification the World Friendship Games, viewed as Moscow's alternative to the Olympic Games and originally indicated to occur this year, according to a Kremlin decree published Monday.The competitors-- commonly viewed as Russia's reaction to being banned from the Paris Olympics due to its intrusion
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