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By Emma-Victoria Farr, John O’Donnell and Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich FRANKFURT/VIENNA (Reuters) -A Russian court froze the shares in Raiffeisen Bank International’s local arm, the biggest Western bank in Russia said on Thursday, blocking the sale of the unit and escalating a standoff between Moscow and the West. Austria-based RBI had vowed…
By Katie Paul NEW YORK – Two days after U.S. authorities accused two employees of Russian state media network RT of coordinating an online network aimed at influencing the 2024 presidential election, nearly 4,000 posts by Tenet Media, the online content company at the heart of the case, were still…
Nikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, one of six member states of the CSTO, made the statement during a press conference on Saturday, according to local media reports.”Armenia has frozen its participation in the CSTO at all levels,” he said, according to a translation by US think tank the…
Ukrainian leadership has dismissed the commander of its air force, Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleschuk. The decision follows the loss of one of its F-16 fighter jets and a top pilot earlier this week.The crash, which is being investigated, occurred during a massive Russian strike on Ukraine, during which the F-16s…
A Russian man convicted of murder and released to fight in Ukraine returned from the front and killed another victim, but has now been freed a second time, according to multiple reports and a legal rights group.The news comes as independent Russian media outlets circulated a letter announcing the man’s…
KURCHATOV, Russia (Reuters) -The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency on Tuesday warned of the risk of a serious accident at a Russian nuclear plant because of fighting nearby between Russian and Ukrainian forces. Rafael Grossi, director general at the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke after visiting the plant in…
Videos that appear to show Russian forces surrendering to Ukrainian troops on Russian soil suggest that those soldiers are desperate and inexperienced, warfare experts said.The Washington Post reviewed more than 130 photos and videos taken since Ukraine’s surprise invasion of Russia’s Kursk region began on August 6th.Russia was slow to…
Ukrainian forces used long-range drones to attack a key Russian airbase overnight, destroying warehouses that stored fuel, ammunition, and highly destructive glide bombs.The attack targeted the Marynivka airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region, a site actively used to launch aircraft that bomb the front lines, a source in the Security Service…
Tesla doesn’t ship Cybertrucks to Russia, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov from getting his hands on one.Kadyrov, a self-styled warlord and head of the Chechen Republic, posted a video on Telegram over the weekend, showing a Tesla Cybertruck being driven through an empty street…
Russia, in many ways an authoritarian state, has designated itself as a “safe haven” for citizens of Western countries looking to escape “destructive neoliberal ideas.”Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that Moscow will assist any foreign nationals who want to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota…
