"A conflict arose between people demanding water supplies to their homes and drivers outraged by [a] blocked highway,” said Dagestan’s branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry.
Ksenia Fadeyeva, 31, is a former municipal deputy in the Siberian city of Tomsk and was added to Russia’s “terrorist” list in January 2022.
Only 2% of the surveyed enterprises said they were overstaffed, with RBC noting that the stark shortage-to-surplus of workers ratio represents the widest margin in the past 28 years....
As Russia’s crackdown on dissenters has intensified, so too have the ripple effects on the family members of Kremlin critics, who are often not involved in politics themselves.
A number of Russian cities have long been plagued with air pollution problems, particularly industrial cities such as Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Norilsk and Krasnoyarsk. They are among the 12 cities included in the federal "Clean Air” project, which aims to improve the quality of the air people breathe.
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Residents of the Kremlin-controlled areas of four Ukrainian regions will soon have to put their clocks forward by an hour as their time zone switches to Moscow time, Russia’s Trade and Industry Ministry announced on Friday.
The weekend summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was attended by delegations from more than 40 countries. Among them were representatives from Ukraine’s allies in Europe and the United States, as well as from India and Brazil. Even Beijing, which initially did not intend to participate and which the Kremlin counts as its most...
Russia’s largest known military equipment storage facility has been stripped of nearly half of the Soviet-era tanks and armored vehicles that were stored on its grounds before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Moscow Times’ Russian service reported, analyzing satellite imagery of the storage site.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made this remarks to Russia’s RBC news website after the New York Times quoted him forecasting a 90% victory for Putin in next year’s presidential election. "Although elections are a requirement of democracy and Putin himself has decided to hold them, theoretically it’s possible not to hold...
Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Thursday he expects a Russian court to deliver a “Stalinist” verdict on extremism charges on Friday (4 August) as he urged supporters to continue “cold-blooded” opposition activities.
Russian drones on Wednesday damaged infrastructure at a Ukrainian port on the Danube near Romania, as Moscow targeted facilities vital for grain shipments from Ukraine following the collapse of a key export arrangement.
The world’s largest freshwater lake by volume and declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, Lake Baikal is both sacred to the indigenous populations living around it and a popular eco-tourism destination. Now Russia’s lower house of parliament approved amendments to the country’s law on the protection of Baikal in...
While Russia has historically maintained a liberal abortion policy, the conservative turn among the country’s leadership, combined with a push from the Russian Orthodox Church.
A total of 1.4 million drugs that induce abortions and 2.2 million emergency contraception drugs were sold in Russia last year, marking a 60% and 53% increase from 2021, respectively. Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and the Western sanctions along with the population’s falling income levels and the mobilization of young men...
An “overwhelming majority” of the 700,000 Ukrainian children arrived in Russia with their parents or relatives, the Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said without offering further details. A UN-backed investigation has determined that Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children...
While Russia has historically had a liberal abortion policy — with the exception of the Stalin-era ban — the conservative turn among the country’s leadership, combined with a push from the Russian Orthodox Church, have put a target on the issue.
You know you’re in trouble when the mothers of your soldiers are foreign agents.
Vadim Ostanin, 46, was detained in December 2021 alongside five other Navalny allies across Russia when the authorities blacklisted the Kremlin critic’s activist network as “extremist.” Ostanin had served as the coordinator of Navalny’s political network in the Siberian city of Barnaul.
