Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov announced on Telegram that a penthouse belonging to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will be seized. The Crimean parliament has unanimously voted to nationalize the assets of Ukrainian oligarchs and politicians on the peninsula, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday, citing the State Council’s press service.
Russia, Iran, and India signed a formal INSTC (International North-South Transport Corridor) deal in May 2022, aimed at enhancing connectivity between the three countries. Make no mistake about what the G7’s Hiroshima Communique is all about. The setting: a city in neo-colony Japan nuclear-bombed 78 years ago by the United States, for
Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin reveals that 20,000 of his fighters were killed at Bakhmut and says Putin’s war has backfired. Russia’s Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has given a rare and revealing interview with pro-Moscow blogger Konstantin Dolgov, fresh off the weekend declaration of victory over Bakhmut in Ukraine’s east.
Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk, and Valery Zvegintsev, who worked at the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, have been accused of allegedly handing hypersonic missile secrets to China. A week ago, just as Ukraine was claiming to have shot down Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles,
According to UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, the UN is assisting a Russian bank with a SWIFT bypass after it was disconnected as part of Ukraine-related sanctions last year. The UN continues to work on ensuring that Russia’s requirements in the Black Sea grain deal are implemented, including the removal of
Aleksey Kokorin, who is the head of climate and energy at WWF Russia, stated that climate change could force Russia to move its capital to Siberia. Russia may end up being forced to move its capital to Siberia due to climate change, an expert from the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF)
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Putin has warned Biden not to send F-16s to Ukraine after the U.S. expressed support for a joint international effort to train Ukrainian pilots in using modern fighter aircraft, including F-16s. The West’s effort to potentially send modern fighter jets to Ukraine
The Office of Russia’s Prosecutor General has announced that the country is banning Greenpeace, accusing the organization of undermining infrastructure and energy projects that are beneficial to Russia by inciting protests against them. Russia has designated Greenpeace an “undesirable organization,” citing the eco-activist group’s record of pushing a political agenda and meddling
Pentagon documents leaked last month reveal that the US tried to break Russia-India ties but failed, as India consistently steers clear of Washington’s foreign policy directives. A cache of classified US documents leaked online last month has shed light on American intelligence gathered about other countries. Images of the covert files initially