TBILISI, Georgia-- Alexei Yermolaev barely anticipated that he 'd be proposing to his sweetheart Anna Volshuva in the dead of night, surrounded by packed bags.It was a few days after the start of Russia's full-scale intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Yermolaev had actually just purchased a one-way ticket to Tbilisi in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia a
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A Russian court has detained a U.S. citizen on drugs charges that could see him jailed for several years.

Moscow's Khamovniki District Court said Travis Leake, a "former paratrooper and musician," had "organized the sale of drugs to young people."

He will be remanded in custody "until Aug. 6, 2023," pending a possible trial. The detention period

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a counteroffensive against Russian forces was underway, while declining to give specifics on his troops' operations.

"Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine: at which stage I will not talk in detail," Zelensky said on Saturday, commenting after Russian President Vladimir

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Swedish hygiene and health company Essity announced Saturday it had secured a deal to sell off its business in Russia. 

As noted in the company’s press release, the Russian authorities have already approved the deal, which is expected to be finalized during the second quarter of 2023.

Essity did not say who bought its Russian assets or for what

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Russia on Saturday stated it would react after Iceland became the first country to suspend its embassy operations in Moscow. All of Reykjavik's anti-Russian actions will undoubtedly trigger a reaction, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement, implicating Iceland of messing up relations between the two countries. We will take this hostile
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Miners in Russia's Ural Mountains region have actually demanded to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin as their strike versus their mine's closure and mass layoffs got in a 2nd day, the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europa reported Friday.The strike at the Mariinsky emerald mine, situated on Europe's largest emerald deposit, started
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