2+ hour, 7+ min ago  (136+ words) A Ukrainian drone attack on Monday afternoon left two men dead and injured two others in the southwestern Belgorod region, local authorities said. Belgorod's regional emergency center said the attack took place in the village of Borisovka, located around 17 kilometers…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (227+ words) Russian and Belarusian gymnasts will be allowed to compete under their national flags and anthems again, the sport's governing body, World Gymnastics, announced on Monday, fully restoring membership rights stripped after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Russia's Gymnastics Federation welcomed the…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago  (271+ words) A temporary U. S. sanctions waiver'allowing for the sale and delivery of Russian seaborne crude expired this weekend, marking the second time Washington has let the relief measure lapse without clarity on a renewal. The general license, first issued by the U. S. Treasury…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (470+ words) A huge wave of more than 500 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia overnight, killing three people in the Moscow region, authorities said on Sunday. Air defenses shot down 556 drones in more than a dozen regions, including Moscow, Russia's Defense Ministry said, in…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (27+ words) Russians marked Orthodox Epiphany overnight by dipping themselves into icy rivers, ponds and lakes across the country. Back to the USSR: When Russia Took a Wrong Turn...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (983+ words) At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Russian athletes competed alongside their peers from around the world, albeit as neutrals because of past doping violations. Days after the closing ceremony, Russia would invade Ukraine " setting off a ban on Russian athletes from…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (152+ words) A Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday left a man dead in the Russian border region of Belgorod, local authorities said. A drone struck a vehicle in the town of Krasnaya Yaruga and killed a civilian, according to a statement from…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (74+ words) Kyiv said on Saturday that Russia had returned 528 bodies to Ukraine, identified as Ukrainian soldiers killed in action, in one of the few areas of cooperation between the warring neighbors. "As a result of repatriation efforts, the bodies of 528 deceased…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (271+ words) A Russian court on Friday ordered Belgian financial group Euroclear to pay around $250 billion in damages over the freezing of billions of dollars worth of Russian assets in the European Union since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine....

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (590+ words) Russia's small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are shutting down at an accelerating pace as higher taxes, weak consumer demand and Russia's first economic contraction since 2023 squeeze companies already struggling with high borrowing costs and slowing spending. Some 209, 000 SMBs were liquidated…...