Russian and Ukrainian forces have begun the battle for Kurakhove …
5 days ago · Russia Kursk region . Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers were encircled in the Kursk region. He was likely referring to a group of several hundred Ukrainian troops who retreated from the village of Olgovka, east of Korenevo, and took cover in the Olgovskaya Grove — a large forest southeast of Olgovka, along the …
University student sentenced to 16 years for alleged terrorist plot …
5 days ago · A Russian military court sentenced Belgorod University student Ibrahim Orudzhev to 16 years in prison for allegedly receiving terrorist training and preparing an attack. Police arrested Orudzhev in November 2023 for photographing a military enlistment office in Moscow and originally charged him with only the misdemeanor offense of disobeying law enforcement.
Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov claims drone attack on Ukrainian …
6 days ago · Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, said on Wednesday that a Russian drone strike against the Ukrainian military’s UAV control center in Kyiv was retaliation for a Ukrainian attack earlier this week on a Chechen special forces training university in Gudermes. Kadyrov claimed that intercepted Ukrainian communications indicate that the Russian. strike …
Police in Crimea charge mother of TikToker with negligence
6 days ago · The mother of a 10-year-old girl in Crimea will face misdemeanor parental negligence charges after her daughter shared a video on TikTok where she added supportive emojis below a Ukrainian flag (a rainbow, a heart, and emojis showing ill and injured faces) and negative emojis below a Russian flag (several bottles of alcohol and an angry face). At the end …
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The Russian government has started hiding monthly migration
4 days ago · Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service has stopped publishing migration statistics in its monthly report on the “Socioeconomic Situation in Russia.” Demographer Alexei Raksha was among the first researchers to draw attention to the policy shift. Previous reports included data on internal migration, migration with CIS countries, and foreign migration beyond.
Fears grow that Chechen officials will fabricate new charges …
5 days ago · Human rights activists fear that prison officials plan to press new bogus charges against Zarema Musayeva, the jailed mother of two Chechen opposition figures. On Thursday, a watch group reported that Musayeva was recently interrogated about a supposed “attack” on a Federal Penitentiary Service officer.
Prosecutors seek 17-year sentence against former ... - Meduza
5 days ago · Prosecutors are seeking a hefty fine and a 17-year prison sentence in a treason case now underway in Yekaterinburg against a former Uralvagonzavod engineer. Officials contend that Danil Mukhametov sold sensitive military-technical information to Ukrainian intelligence agents between 2022 and 2023. A verdict is expected next week on Tuesday, …
Finland charges Russian paramilitary commander with war crimes …
5 days ago · The Finnish Prosecutor’s Office has formally charged Russian neo-Nazi and Rusich Group paramilitary unit commander Yan “Slavyan” Petrovsky with five war crimes allegedly committed in the fall of 2014 while fighting alongside Russian proxy forces in Donetsk and Luhansk. Finnish officials say Petrovsky (legal name: Voislav Torden) and his comrades were …
Raiffeisen Bank International says it won’t leave Russia without ...
5 days ago · 1:13 am, October 31, 2024. Source: Frank Media. Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) says it’s unwilling to divest from Russia without compensation. In a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the bank’s third-quarter performance, CEO Johann Strobl fielded at least four questions about the company’s Raiffeisenbank subsidiary.