A Russian court ordered Till Lindemann, the frontman of German metal band Rammstein, to pay 638,800 euros ($670,000) over a canceled show in northwestern Russia's Tver area, the state-run TASS news agency reported Monday.Tver-based company Prime Marketing, which had actually contracted Rammstein to carry out in the local capital, submitted a claim

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The United States has licensed Kyiv to use U.S.-donated long-range rockets to strike targets inside Russia nearly 1,000 days into the Kremlin's full-blown intrusion of Ukraine.Washington's change of tone is most likely to prompt Kyiv's other allies to ease restrictions on making use of their weapons. American Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) are pa

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Retail alcohol sales in Russia hit a record 184.2 million decaliters between January and October 2024, the RBC organization news outlet reported Monday, citing data from market regulators.This marks the highest volume tape-recorded given that 2017, when regulators started tracking the information. Sales during this duration were 21% higher than in between January and October

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Allowing Ukraine to target Russia with U.S.-supplied long-range missiles would trigger a significant new round of escalation in the war, the Kremlin's leading representative stated Monday, as the conflict approaches the 1,000-day mark given that Moscow's major invasion.U.S. media reported late Sunday that President Joe Biden offered Kyiv long-sought

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Monday that Paris remains open to allowing Ukraine to use French long-range missiles to target military sites inside Russia, following reports that the United States has permitted Kyiv to use American-supplied missiles for the same purpose.

Washington's policy shift — long requested by Ukraine — was rep

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A Russian missile strike killed 11 people, including two children, in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday evening, authorities in Ukrainesaid Monday.

The missile strike on a nine-story apartment building prompted an evacuation of more than 400 residents from the damaged building, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service.

Ukraine’s

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