A Russian woman living in New York has been convicted of attempted murder and other charges after trying to kill a lookalike with poisoned cheesecake to steal her identity, prosecutors announced. Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, faces up to 25 years in prison for
A Russian plot to overthrow the Moldovan government has been thwarted by Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told European Union leaders Thursday. While it is unclear if the Kremlin ordered the scheme, Zelenskyy said Russian secret services were the masterminds behind the
A court in Moscow on Tuesday upheld an earlier verdict to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that has been critical of the Kremlin for years, part of the authorities’ relentless crackdown on dissent. The ruling by the Moscow City
An oil refinery in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has gone up in flames as video footage shows black smoke billowing from the facility. Reports indicate the fire ha s taken place at a plant belonging to Lukoil – a Russian
An oil refinery in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has gone up in flames as video footage shows black smoke billowing from the facility. Reports indicate the fire ha s taken place at a plant belonging to Lukoil – a Russian
Russia’s economy is approaching an eye-watering £20billion for the month of January – representing three-fifths of the shortfall previously planned for the entire year. And in a stark illustration of the serious damage Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is having on his
A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a popular cookbook author and blogger to nine years in prison after convicting her in absentia of spreading false information about the country’s military. The trial was part of the Kremlin’s sweeping, months-long crackdown on dissent.
Russian rescue workers will fly to Syria and Turkey after a huge earthquake killed about 1,700 people and injured thousands more, the Kremlin said on Monday. President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan to
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a close supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, worked for Russian intelligence services during a stay in Switzerland in the 1970s, according to two Swiss newspapers, citing declassified archives. According to the daily Le Matin Dimanche and the
In the struggle for the eastern city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian troops contend that they are up against a zombie-like army up to ten times as big as theirs. Bakhmut has once again become one of the epicentres of the war, being one