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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a Telegram address posted September 4, 2022 President of Ukraine/Telegram Zelenskyy announced the retaking of three Ukrainian settlements, but didn't specify where. One counter-attack was in the eastern Donbas region and two were in the south, he said. Ukraine began to push back against Russian occupation in the south at the […]
A surge in the dollar has hammered other currencies such as the euro. Tunahan Turhan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The euro dropped below $ 0.99 for the first time in two decades after Russia halted the flow of natural gas. A surge in the dollar piled pressure on other major currencies, with investors flocking towards […]
Taliban officials attending an international conference in Moscow in October 2021. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Image Taliban-led Afghanistan is set to strike a deal with Moscow soon on imports of oil and gas. The negotiations come as the world increasingly closes itself to Moscow's energy market. With its banks sanctioned, the Taliban said it would […]
Theories for the new season have ranged all the way from brainwashing to superheroes, but fans seemed to be settled on Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), and potentially a few others, travelling to Russia to liberate Hopper from imprisonment. Some eagle-eyed viewers have taken to Reddit to collect evidence suggesting the new season has already been […]
Catherine the Great is Helen Mirren’s new period drama, chronicling the life of Russia’s longest-running female ruler. She plays the Empress of Russia in the new four-part drama following the latter part of her rule as well as her passionate love affair with Grigory Potemkin (played by Jason Clarke). Here’s everything fans need to know […]
The move is part of Russia’s desire to hedge against further American sanctions
Russia’s astronomy program is facing a significant setback. The country’s orbital Spektr-R radio telescope has stopped responding to commands since January 11th. While it’s still transmitting signals, the satellite effectively can’t be used for future tasks in its current state. The space agency Roscosmos said it would next try to regain control and fix issues […]
The plot thickens in the case of a former US Marine who was detained on spying charges in Russia before the New Year. It has emerged that Paul Whelan also holds UK and Irish passports, and maybe a Canadian one. The American was arrested in a posh hotel overlooking the Kremlin in Moscow by Federal […]
Paul Whelan, a former Marine who was detained on December 31 in Moscow on suspicion of collecting intelligence, holds a UK passport in addition to his US travel document, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed on Friday. British diplomats have already applied for consular access to Whelan, she added. Earlier, the man was also […]
More bodies were recovered from the rubble of a 10-story residential building in Russia’s Urals, partially destroyed on New Year’s Eve by an explosion. The official death toll has now jumped to 21. The figure keeps growing as rescue teams attempt to clear all the rubble left by the collapsed structure in the city of […]
