Moscow
30 Nov
Police in Moscow raided multiple bars early Saturday and arrested the director of a gay travel agency under laws criminalising "LGBT propaganda", state media reported. The raids came on the one year anniversary of Russia's Supreme Court outlawing the "international LGBT movement", paving the way for arrests and prosecutions of the country's already repressed LGBTQ…
10 Nov
Russia downed 32 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow overnight, the city's mayor said Sunday, in the largest attack on the capital since Russia began its offensive in Ukraine in 2022. The attack, which forced the temporary closure of three Moscow airports, injured a 52-year-old woman and set two homes on fire in the village of Stanovoye…
2 Nov
Moscow on Saturday denied it was behind fake videos about the US election after American intelligence said Russia was behind a fake video showing a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times. Three US intelligence agencies on Friday said in a joint statement that "Russian influence actors" created the video as part of "Moscow's…
2 Sep
Russia advanced on 477 square kilometres (184 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in August, Moscow's biggest monthly increase since October 2022, according to data supplied by the Institute for the Study of War and analyzed by AFP. The Ukrainian army, for its part, made rapid gains in early August in Russia after a surprise incursion…
2 Sep
Russia has detained another senior military official on suspicion of bribery, authorities said Monday, the latest in a string of arrests linked to alleged corruption in the defense ministry. Major General Valery Muminjanov, who worked in the defense ministry's resources department, helped arrange state contracts for private companies that supplied army uniforms, according to investigators.…
17 Aug 2024
Russia said Saturday it had repelled Ukrainian forces near the town of Korenevo and the villages of Russkoye and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye in the Kursk border region. Ukrainian attacks "were repelled in the direction of the settlements of Korenevo, Russkoye and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye", the Russian defence ministry said.
10 Aug 2024
Moscow on Saturday mounted a "counter-terror operation" in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's advance deeper into Russia and warned that the fighting endangered a nuclear power plant. Ukrainian units stormed into Russia's western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack, the largest and most successful cross-border offensive by Kyiv of…
23 May 2024
US President Joe Biden rolled out the red carpet Thursday for his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto, unveiling plans during a lavish state
23 May 2024
At least eight people were killed when an illegal hostel housing migrants burned down in a village near Moscow on Thursday, officials said.
29 Mar 2024
Russia will begin calling up tens of thousands of soldiers next week in a conscription drive to replenish its armed forces and build up its military reserves.
26 Mar 2024
A Turkish security official on Tuesday said two of the Moscow concert hall attack suspects travelled "freely" to Russia as no arrest warrants were issued against them. Russian authorities detained 11 people in connection with Friday's attack, which saw camouflaged gunmen storm into Crocus City Hall, open fire on concert-goers and set the building ablaze,…
22 Mar 2024
Gunmen opened fire at a rock concert in a Moscow suburb Friday killing at least 40 people, wounding 100 and setting off an inferno in the theatre, authorities said. Attackers dressed in camouflage uniforms entered the building, opened fire and threw a grenade or incendiary bomb, according to a journalist for the RIA Novosti news…
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