The Latest Breaking News from Russia

‘Ukrainian air shield is becoming stronger every month’; another €1.5bn in aid from EU; Putin says he wants peace talks, then blames Ukraine

Russian missile tears through section of hospital in late night attack on civilian target

Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from behind bars, enlisting his adult son to liaise with the Russians on the outside. Nicholson was convicted for a…

Helsinki accuses Moscow of weaponising desperate refugees and migrants in retaliation for its recent entry into NATO.

Finnish border guards and soldiers began erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia to better control an influx of migrants, officials said Wednesday. Finland said it will close three more crossing points, leaving only one Arctic point…

Since the February 2022 outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, there has been global debate about whether war crimes have been committed by Russian soldiers, military leaders and politicians.

Concerns rise that Moscow has been stockpiling missiles and waiting for sub-zero temperatures for maximum disruption

Helsinki accuses Moscow of guiding refugees across border in apparent act of revenge for it cooperating with US

In retrospect, rap in 1990s Russia was truly free. How so? Look around: the bright post-Soviet future of which Russians caught a glimpse during the 1990s has collapsed, replaced with something much darker, with one of its victims being rap.