1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (301+ words) The British navy tracked and monitored three Russian submarines suspected of surveying undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic, British Defense Secretary John Healy said Thursday. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, Healy said the tracking operation had…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago  (196+ words) Russia's oldest independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta said Thursday that police were carrying out a search of its Moscow office. Novaya Gazeta, which said masked security officers entered its newsroom around noon, did not immediately know the reason for the search....

3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (299+ words) Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday declared the Nobel Prize-winning human rights organization Memorial an "extremist" group, a designation that effectively criminalizes its remaining operations and exposes its supporters to criminal prosecution. The ruling targets what the court termed the "Memorial…...

4+ hour, 4+ min ago  (235+ words) Russia and Ukraine carried out a major repatriation of fallen service members on Thursday, with Moscow handing over the remains of 1, 000 Ukrainian soldiers in exchange for 41 Russian bodies. The figures were disclosed to the RBC news website by Shamsail Saraliyev,…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago  (305+ words) Russia's federal budget deficit surged past its full-year target in the first three months of 2026, underscored by a sharp decline in energy tax receipts and a double-digit spike in government spending. According to Finance Ministry data released Wednesday, the deficit…...

7+ hour, 42+ min ago  (185+ words) Russia's FSB security service announced Thursday the arrest of a former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) freelance reporter in the Zabaikalsky region on suspicion of treason. The man, a 65-year-old resident of Chita, is accused of funneling intelligence…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago  (115+ words) Debris from a Ukrainian drone downed in the southern Krasnodar region killed a man, local authorities said Thursday. Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin'Kondratyev said the man was'hit by drone debris while he was on the balcony of an apartment building in…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1071+ words) I'm in Russia, and have the feeling that someone has turned the absurdity dial right up to the max over the past couple of weeks. I had a similar feeling in the early days of the invasion, then again when…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (215+ words) Preschoolers across Russia will begin state-backed patriotic lessons known as "Kind Games" later this year, a senior Education Ministry official said Wednesday. The state-run news agency RIA Novosti described "Kind Games" as the preschool equivalent of "Important Conversations," which were…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (201+ words) Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it summoned the Japanese ambassador in Moscow to protest a Tokyo-based company's investment in a Ukrainian drone maker. Terra Drone Corporation, a publicly traded company, announcedlast week that it would make a "strategic investment…...