Russian authorities have for the first time fined a streaming platform under its law prohibiting so-called “LGBT propaganda,” the RBC news websitereported Friday, citing the federal media regulator.

St. Petersburg’s Magistrate Court fined Trikolor Kino i TV 1.2 million rubles ($15,000) during a trial held Tuesday, according to the outlet.

An unnamed

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Two women were killed and two others seriously wounded in a shelling attack on the Russian border region of Belgorod, the region's governor said.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at a road in the village of Maslova Pristan in the Shebekino district. Shell fragments hit cars passing by. Two women traveling in one of them died on the spot from t

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Ukraine said Friday it ruined all 15 missiles and 21 drones from a new age of over night attacks that left 2 individuals injured in Kyiv. The occupiers do not stop attempting to scare the capital of Ukraine with attack drones and missiles, the flying force said. All 15 cruise rockets and 21 attack drones were ruined, it added. Reasonably spared

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Russian oilfield service companies earned record revenues in 2022 after major foreign players exited the market due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Vedomosti newspaper reported Friday.

According to data from Kasaktin Consulting cited by Vedomosti, Russian oilfield services earned 1.79 trillion rubles ($22.2 billion) in 2022, the highest figure

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A minimum of 2 oil and gas facilities were targeted in over night drone strikes in western Russia, officials said Friday amid heightening drone attacks throughout Russian areas near the border with Ukraine. Two long-range drones attacked fuel and energy complex items at about 3 a.m., said Vasily Anohin, the acting guv of the Smolensk region nea

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Sitting at a cafe in the Ukrainian port of Odesa, a local smuggler drew on his cigarette as he explained how the war has disrupted long-established underworld ties between Russia and Ukraine.

"The vast majority of Ukrainian criminals took the side of Ukraine," said 59-year-old Kirim, who spoke on condition that he be given a pseudonym.

"But there

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