Zelenskiy pledges to end Ukraine conflict
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promised to end the war in eastern Ukraine. The comedian turned president told the…
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HRW: Russian police targeting domestic abuse NGOs
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the police in southern Russia have raided the homes and office of activists who helped…
Exiled Russian comic unsure about return amid blasphemy charges after insulting Putin
Russia standup comic Aleksandr Dolgopolov, 25, (pictured) fled for Israel in January after his jokes about Christianity and President Vladimir…
Activists take on Russian facial-recognition cameras
Russia’s use of facial-recognition technology is being challenged by an activist in court. Alyona Popova says the cameras pose a…
Russia’s Crimean chiefs handed fresh US sanctions
The US and Canada have imposed sanctions against eight people and a railway company for violating Ukrainian sovereignty over their…
Bulgaria to expel Russian diplomats
Two envoys based at the Russian embassy in Sofia have been accused of spying and ordered to leave the country….
Russian transgender woman has conviction overturned
A Russian court has overturned a guilty verdict that jailed a transgender woman for three years in 2019 for sharing…
Giant Russia church planned near czar’s murder site
A well-known Russian priest is planning to build the world’s largest Orthodox church near the site where Russia’s last czar…
Putin faces backlash amid Russian shakeup
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the new Russian government, including a new economy minister and deputy prime minister, but…
The African footballers stuck on Europe’s periphery
Having recently been crowned the CAF 2019 Player of the Year, Senegalese attacker Sadio Mané represents the pinnacle of what…
Auschwitz to mark 75th anniversary of liberation
Auschwitz is marking the 75th anniversary by the Red Army towards the end of the Second World War, although Russian…
Putin unveils package to boost Russian birth rate
Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed a package to increase birth rates from an average of under 1.5 per woman…
Russia’s GRU hacks Ukraine gas firm Burisma: US cyber report
The Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma Holdings, involved in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial was hacked by Russian military intelligence in November,…
Russia hails nuclear-capable missile deployments
Russia has defended its deployment of nuclear-capable weapons in Kaliningrad, its enclave between Poland and Lithuania. The advanced Iskander missiles…
Russian troops on Turkmen-Afghan border: claim
Russian troops have allegedly been stationed in Turkmenistan along the Afghan border in the southern part of Turkmenistan’s eastern Lebap…
Putin and Erdogan demand Libyan ceasefire
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s veteran leader, Vladimir Putin, have called for a Libyan ceasefire. The two populist…