Prosecutors requested Russian reporter Maria Ponomarenko to be sentenced to 9 years in prison on Tuesday, the Kommersant company daily reported, pointing out Ponomarenko's lawyer.Ponomarenko was apprehended in St. Petersburg in April for releasing info about the Russian bombing of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on the No C
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A Russian court in the Siberian city of Chita has fined a local man for speaking to the press about the fine he had previously received for sharing a dream he had about Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, the independent Mediazona news website reported Tuesday.

Ivan Losev was fined 70,000 rubles ($986) for “discrediting” the Russian armed for

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The Russian army is successfully advancing near the eastern Ukrainian towns of Bakhmut and Vuhledar, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated Tuesday. Military operations are at the moment progressing with success in the locations around Vuhledar and Artemovsk, Shoigu informed a defense conference using the previous name for Bakhmut.He listed seven
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov showed up in Mali early Tuesday for talks with its junta leaders looking for Moscow's help in battling an Islamist revolt that stays entrenched despite years of fighting.Lavrov, who remained in Iraq on Monday, was invited upon his arrival by his counterpart Abdoulaye Diop. The two men did not make any statements
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Russia's budget deficit surged to 1.76 trillion rubles ($24.8 billion) in January 2023, the Finance Ministrysaid Monday, as Western sanctions cut into oil and gas revenues and the country raised its wartime spending.

The figures mark Russia’s largest first-month budget deficit since at least 1998, according to Bloomberg.

Revenues fell 35% to 1.356

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A court in Moscow sentenced among the first individuals charged under Russia's wartime law versus spreading out intentionally incorrect info to nine years in jail in absentia on Monday, the independent broadcaster Sota reported.Veronika Belotserkovskaya, a Ukrainian-born Russian journalist and the owner of a culinary school in France where she lives,
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