Universities across Russia have admitted 8,500 veterans of the war in Ukraine and their children this academic year, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenkoannounced Monday.

President Vladimir Putin in 2022 ordered a 10% university admission quota for war veterans and their children, granting them priority and clearing them of entrance

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Voters throughout Russia are set to cast ballots in regional and local elections starting Sept. 8 in which they will select, among others, 21 regional heads and deputies for 16 regional parliaments. The Kremlin's tight grip on the electoral system and supposed extensive vote-rigging will ensure the victory of government-backed candidates in
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Updated with lawyer's remarks.

Russian authorities have detained a math graduate student and self-described anti-fascist immediately as he left prison after serving a previous jail term, the independent student news site DOXA reported Monday.

Azat Miftakhov, 30, was released earlier in the day from a penal colony where he had served a four-year

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold their very first in person meeting in a year on Monday in a bid to resolve the crisis over Russia's exit from a deal ensuring Ukrainian grain exports. The conference, which was at first set to happen in August in Turkey, had been postponed several times and
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Updated with second court conviction against Vitaly Prokopchuk.

A court in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine has sentenced a Ukrainian soldier to more than two decades in prison for killing a civilian in the occupied city of Mariupol, Russian authoritiesannounced Monday.

Gunner Maxim Ovcharenko and two of his unidentified fellow soldiers were

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Russia's government has continued to buy foreign-made automobiles despite calls by President Vladimir Putin last month for authorities to begin using domestic-made vehicles, the investigative news outlet Agentstvoreported Monday.Overall, Russian federal government bodies, companies and state-affiliated business acquired 151 foreign-made automobiles worth 566 million
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