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Southern Russia’s Krasnodar region has declared a state of emergency following weeks of intense Ukrainian strikes against Black Sea ports and shipping infrastructure, which have hobbled export routes ...

Four companies linked to a former university classmate of President Vladimir Putin won all 39 contracts to supply meals to Moscow schools from 2026 to 2028, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka ...

A Russian military helicopter made a brief incursion into Poland's airspace from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Polish military officials said Wednesday.

Russia’s financial monitoring agency Rosfinmonitoring added exiled journalist and YouTuber Yury Dud to its database of “terrorists and extremists” on Wednesday.

Two missing climbers were found dead following a three-day search and rescue operation on one of Russia’s highest mountains ...

Informal networks and unwritten rules have long shaped how power operates in Russia. According to academic Alena Ledeneva, these forces help explain the country’s recurring swings between openness and ...

Russia’s FSB security service arrested a man in Moscow accused of planning to blow up the motorcade of a high-ranking government official, state media reported Wednesday, citing the law enforcement ...

The State Duma elections have taken place and it is already clear that United Russia is on track to win a record number of seats.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned earlier this summer that “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes” and called on countries to end their dependency on planet-heating fossil fuels. “The ...

At least four people were killed in a fire that broke out at a shopping center in the city of Sterlitamak in Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan, emergency services told state news agencies on Tuesday ...