Russia's navy performed a live fire workout in the northwest Black Sea, Moscow's Defense Ministry stated Friday, days after the Kremlin said it would think about ships taking a trip to Ukraine through the waterway prospective military targets.The Black Sea Fleet performed live firing of anti-ship cruise rockets at the target ship in the combat

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The United States placed more than 120 companies from Russia as well as several Kyrgyzstan firms on its sanctions blacklist Thursday for what it said were their contributions to Russia's war on Ukraine.

The sanctions aimed at further choking off Russia's access to critical raw and manufactured materials as well as financing in order to hinder its

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Russian district attorneys have asked for a 20-year prison sentence for jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on a new string of extremism charges, his team reported Thursday.Navalny, 47, has been charged with creating an extremist community and an organization that infringes on the rights of residents; funding extremism; making calls to extremism; and

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Moscow on Thursday revealed that British diplomats working in Russia will require to alert authorities ahead of time about their motions around the country.Russia's Foreign Ministry stated it had actually summoned Britain's charge d'affaires Tom Dodd to inform him of a notification treatment for the motion of staff members of British diplomatic missions on the

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Company at RTSB-RUS, a logistics business that ships freight by rail throughout Russia, has actually expanded over the last 18 months. In the middle of an exodus of Western rivals and a rise in trade with China, its freight volumes leapt almost fourfold in 2022 alone, Chief Executive Alexander Baskakov informed The Moscow Times.Elevated cargo shipments are just one sign of how

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The United Kingdom on Thursdaylifted sanctions against the exiled former banking tycoon Oleg Tinkov.

The decision was announced just days after British billionaire Richard Branson called on his government to lift the “unwarranted” sanctions imposed against Tinkov last year. Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had also previously urged Lon

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