2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (186+ words) Nationwide average temperatures in July surpassed the previous record set in 2010, when the average temperature exceeded the norm by 7.8 degrees Celsius. “July was the hottest in our country for the entire period of instrumental observations since 1891,” Rosgidromet chief Yury Simonov…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (328+ words) Indonesian authorities are verifying Ukrainian claims that at least eight of its citizens have been recruited to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, media reported Monday. Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU) last week published scans of seven e-visa applications and…...

6+ hour, 9+ min ago   (174+ words) A drone struck a high-rise apartment building in the city of Yekaterinburg as Ukraine targeted a logistics hub owned by online retailer Wildberries, local officials and Russian media reported on Monday afternoon. Sverdlovsk region Governor Denis Pasler said four people…...

7+ hour, 42+ min ago   (216+ words) Investigators have dropped all charges against St. Petersburg businessman Ilya Traber over the 2020 contract killing of a local politician and business rival, Russian media reported Monday. The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top investigative body, “terminated the criminal prosecution” after finding Traber…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (272+ words) A judge in Moscow on Friday sentenced Oleksiy Arestovych, a former adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, to 11 years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of spreading false information about the Russian military and publicly calling for terrorism....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (200+ words) Russian users reported widespread outages of Wikipedia early Friday before access was restored later in the day, independent monitoring groups said. Issues with opening the online encyclopedia began shortly after midnight Moscow time. Monitoring services Sboy and Downdetector tracked a…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (215+ words) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia this weekend, the Kremlin said Friday. “The talks are planned for Saturday,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency. Lukashenko arrived in Russia on…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (245+ words) A Russian military official has been killed in a car explosion in St. Petersburg, investigators said Thursday, with local media identifying his rank as lieutenant colonel. The blast occurred around 10 a.m. local time near a supermarket in the Shushary neighborhood, the…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1742+ words) The news that the German special services have opened a special direct line for residents and citizens of Russian, Chinese and Iranian origin fearing transnational repression from their states reminded me of how I myself became acquainted with German counterintelligence....

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (195+ words) Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced plans to summon Romania’s chargé d’affaires in Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday. According to the ministry’s short statement, Liliana Burda was expected to be summoned on Thursday. The Russian ministry did not publicly confirm…...