Moscow city authorities are ramping up efforts to recruit contract soldiers for the war in Ukraine following several months of relative quiet, the independent Vyorstka news website reported, citing sources in the city government and city agencies.

The report comes despite the United States pushing for a negotiated end to Russia's full-scale

A former Russian minister and ally of President Vladimir Putin was sentenced Friday to 40 months in prison by a British court for breaching U.K. sanctions — the first conviction of its kind.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, was found guilty earlier this week of six counts of sanctions evasion related to his role in Russian-occupied Crimea. The breaches

A Russian Olympic official’s dust-up with a Russian-born wrestling champion representing Albania has sparked a controversy in the Russian sporting world as the Kremlin continues to lobby for a return to the Olympic Games.

Chermen Valiev, a wrestler born in Russia’s republic of North Ossetia, had previously competed for Russia but changed his s