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Family Values or Fighting Valor? Russia Grapples With Women’s Wartime Role.
Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V. Putin’s conservative agenda.The New York Times - World - Russia -
To prevent Georgia going down Putin’s path, sanction the country’s Russian puppets
Western governments have been far too passive for far too long, as Georgian Dream has moved the country in a nondemocratic direction closer to Russia.The Hill - Politics - Russia -
Boeing's Latest Trouble Is a Jet Part Caught Up in Russia Sanctions
The plane maker can’t deliver enough 787 Dreamliners after sanctions disrupted production of heat exchangers.The Wall Street Journal - Business - Russia -
Cubans lured to Russian army by high pay and passports
The number of Cubans recruited to fight in Ukraine is thought to be in the hundreds.BBC News - Top stories - Russia -
Russian military personnel on Niger base where some U.S. troops remain
Before a coup in Niger in July 2023 led to the demand that American troops leave the country, the U.S. used two Niger airbases to fly drones on counterterrorism missions in the Sahel region of Africa.CBS News - Politics - Russia -
Russian state media is posting more on TikTok ahead of the U.S. presidential election, study says
A study by the nonprofit Brookings Institution says Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential electionABC News - Tech - Russia -
Now on Pre-Election TikTok: Lots of Russian Media Posts
A Brookings Institute study says Russian media outlets withstate-linked accounts are putting more English and Spanish content on the platform, and getting more engagement.Inc. - Business - Russia -
Orthodox Russians mark Easter with night-time service in Moscow cathedral
Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow's landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time Easter serviceABC News - World - Russia -
Russian military personnel enter Niger airbase where some U.S. troops remain
Before a coup in Niger in July 2023 led to the demand that American troops leave the country, the U.S. used two Niger airbases to fly drones on counterterrorism missions in the Sahel region of Africa.CBS News - World - Russia -
Western banks in Russia paid €800mn in taxes to Kremlin last year
Figure represents a fourfold increase on prewar levels and comes as profits jump at European lenders still in the countryFinancial Times - Business - Russia -
Russian attack on NATO would end in defeat for Moscow, Polish foreign minister says, but NATO must increase its defenses
Russian attack on NATO would end in defeat for Moscow, Polish foreign minister says, but NATO must increase its defensesABC News - World - Russia -
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Russia convicts the spokesperson for Facebook owner Meta in a swift trial in absentia
An independent Russian news site has reported that a court in Russia convicted the spokesperson of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in absentiaABC News - World - Russia -
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NATO members 'deeply concerned' by activities such as sabotage on alliance soil. They blame Russia
NATO countries say they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance’s soil they attribute to Russia, and which they say constitute a threat to their securityABC News - World - Russia -
Serbia's new govt to include US-sanctioned chief with close ties to Russia
Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United StatesABC News - World - Russia -
Russia to intensify attacks on Western weapons stored in Ukraine, Kremlin warns
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned Kremlin will intensify attacks on Western weapons stored in Ukraine. “We will increase the intensity of attacks on logistics centers and storage bases for Western weapons,” Shoigu said on Tuesday, ...The Hill - Politics - Russia -
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Raiffeisen Bank trumpets Russia growth plans in dozens of job ads
Austrian lender, which has pledged to exit Russia, orders internal probe following FT findingsFinancial Times - Business - Russia -
Russian authorities announce evacuation for flood-hit city near Kazakhstan border
Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg, near the border with Kazakhstan, have announced a mass evacuation from there after water levels in the Ural River rose further, threatening the area with more floodingABC News - World - Russia -
A Russian Orthodox priest who took part in services for Navalny is suspended by the patriarch
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei NavalnyABC News - World - Russia -
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Wirecard fugitive helped run Russian spy operations across Europe
Jan Marsalek used agents in Vienna to plot break-ins and assassinations by Russian hit squads, prosecutors claimFinancial Times - Business - Russia -
Brittney Griner Talks Candidly About Her New Book, Russia and Recovery
In an interview, the basketball star reveals her humiliation — and friendships — in Russian prison, and her path to recovery.The New York Times - Top stories - Russia -
Belarus' parliament votes to leave Europe's conventional forces treaty already abandoned by Russia
The Belarusian parliament has voted to suspend the country’s participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty that once was a key security doctrine for the continentABC News - World - Russia -
Russia-Ukraine war live: Lithuania hits out at Russia ‘disinformation’ over spy claims
Russia had said that a Ukrainian agent had entered country from Lithuania with the aim of targeting a fuel facility. Ukraine’s president and foreign minister has pressed British foreign secretary David Cameron to accelerate the delivery of ...The Guardian - World - Russia -
Russian activist gets 15-year sentence for attempting to set fire to a military conscription office
A Russian activist has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to set fire to a military conscription office in protest against the Russian action in UkraineABC News - World - Russia -
‘I wanted to take my life’: Brittney Griner talks about detention in Russian prison
Basketball star was detained on drug charges in 2022Griner details ordeal during interview with ABCBrittney Griner, the US basketball star who was imprisoned in Russia for 10 months in 2022, has given her first interviews since her release as part ...The Guardian - World - Russia -
NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War
The alliance’s largest exercises offer a preview of what the opening of a Great Power conflict could look like. How it ends is a different story.The New York Times - Top stories - Russia -
Russian priest who led Navalny memorial services is demoted
Dmitry Safronov is suspended from leading services and ordered to serve three years of ‘penance’. A Russian priest who presided over a memorial for the opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been suspended from leading services and ordered to serve ...The Guardian - World - Russia -
Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy says west must do more after 14 killed in Russian strike on Chernihiv
President says attack would not have happened ‘if Ukraine had received sufficient air defence equipment’. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish president Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York, ...The Guardian - World - Russia -
Serbia says it's close to a deal to buy French-made fighter jets. That would be a shift from Russia
Serbian president says his country is close to signing a deal on the purchase of 12 French Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets in what would mark a shift from its traditional arms supplier RussiaABC News - World - Russia -
Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers
Interference with navigation signals blamed on Moscow has forced two Finnish flights to turn around mid-journeyFinancial Times - Business - Russia -
AP PHOTOS: Russian kids ride sticks with a horse's head in hobby horsing competition
Several dozen kids — 48 girls and one boy, from first-graders to teenagers — gathered recently at a gymnasium in northern St. Petersburg for a hobby horsing competition. The event looked exactly like a proper equestrian competition, but instead of ...ABC News - Sports - Russia -
A court in Russia adds 2 more years to the prison term of Navalny's associate
A court in Russia has added two more years to the 7 1/2 year prison term for a former associate of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the latest step in the Kremlin’s yearslong crackdown on dissentABC News - World - Russia -
Russians stage a rare protest after a dam bursts and homes flood near the Kazakh border
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with KazakhstanABC News - World - Russia -
Russia floods: waters rising in two cities and thousands evacuated after dam bursts
Federal emergency declared in Orenburg region and at least 6,000 homes inundated after Ural River overflows. Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia’s Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe’s third-longest river burst through a dam, ...The Guardian - World - Russia -
Russia launches drone attack on Kharkiv that kills 4 people and wounds 12
Authorities say a nighttime Russian attack using Iranian-designed drones has killed four people and wounded 12 in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest cityABC News - World - Russia -
Russia threatens retaliation if its assets are confiscated
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned Western countries against seizing its assets, in a statement Sunday. In a post on Telegram, Zakharova quoted reporting from the Wall Street Journal that said Germany was arguing in favor ...The Hill - Politics - Russia -
The clash over whether to commandeer Russia’s frozen assets
Confiscating hundreds of billions of foreign reserves could transform Ukraine’s war. But the US and Europe disagree on how far to goFinancial Times - Business - Russia -
Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps
A visual guide to the warFinancial Times - World - Ukraine