Kursk governor says ‘several Ukrainian drones’ shot down in region overnight
Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit reported that “several Ukrainian drones” were downed by air defenses near the regional capital on Thursday night.
U.S. announces countermeasures in response to Russia’s violation of New START nuclear arms control treaty
The U.S. State Department announced that it has “adopted countermeasures in response to the Russian Federation’s ongoing violation of the New START Treaty,” a nuclear arms reduction agreement between the…
Justice Ministry declares Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation ‘undesirable’ organization
Russia’s Justice Ministry has included Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation on its list of “undesirable” organizations, reports Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Novosti.
Evgeny Prigozhin visits nationalist writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin in hospital
Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin visited the nationalist writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin in a hospital in Nizhny Novgorod. Prigozhin stopped in Nizhny Novgorod after travelling to Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, and…
Russian schools purchase drones for training schoolkids
Schools in several Russian regions have been purchasing “training drones” and other equipment needed to teach children to pilot drones. Independent news outlet iStories found the purchase contracts on a…
‘Evgeny, you don’t understand’: Kadyrov-allied Chechen leaders unite in criticizing Prigozhin for ‘yelling and screaming’ about army problems
Responding to Evgeny Prigozhin’s remarks about the Chechen battalion Akhmat, State Duma Deputy Adam Delimkhanov (an ethnic Chechen allied with the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov) recorded a Telegram video…
Former National-Bolshevik activist Roman Popkov charged with organizing Vladlen Tatarsky assassination
Russia’s Investigative Committee is charging the journalist Roman Popkov with organizing the terrorist attack that killed the pro-Kremlin war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg on April 2.
Chaos in Shebekino. What we know about the latest raid into Russia’s Belgorod region by pro-Ukrainian militias
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and the Freedom of Russia Legion announced Thursday morning that they were conducting a new raid into Russia’s Belgorod region. The two pro-Ukrainian militia groups…
‘Get me a passport, then I’ll tell you what I know’. How a former United Russia lawmaker wound up on Moscow’s ‘foreign agents’ list
Russia’s Justice Ministry made an unlikely addition to its “foreign agents” list last week: former lawmaker Magomed Gadzhiyev, who once represented the ruling United Russia party in the State Duma.…