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Russia Denies Rumors Putin Is Sick
Topline The Kremlin denied Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is sick following months of speculation that he’s battling a serious illness. Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he ...
The Russian Army Is Sending New Recruits To War With Just A Month Of Training
A volunteer battalion with the Russian Northern Fleet’s 200th Arctic Motorized Rifle Brigade trains … [+] for deployment to Ukraine. Russian state media capture Desperate to reinforce its batter...
Russia Detains Activist Ilya Yashin For Spreading ‘Fake Information’—Here’s Who Else The Kremlin Has Targeted
Topline Russia on Wednesday detained prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin—one of the last opposition activists remaining in Russia—for two months for allegedly spreading false information about...
Top Kremlin Official Lavrov Throws Fit At G20 Meeting
Topline Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stormed out of a meeting at Friday’s Group of 20 summit of foreign ministers in Bali, Indonesia, according to multiple reports, in a predictably dramatic...
Kremlin bans crypto payments – The Cryptonomist
With the ratification of a bill, the Duma bans payment in crypto and establishes a register of operators authorized to work in the sector. Russia: only some will be allowed to make payments in cryptoc...
Kremlin slashes spending by £24bn as West’s sanctions batter Russia
Putin The Kremlin is poised to cut future spending plans by £24bn as Western sanctions against Russia bite. Defence, technology and transport budgets are all set to be trimmed, according to Russian me...
Putin Seizes Control Over Major Gas And Oil Project From Foreign Investors
Topline President Vladimir Putin has seized control of a major gas project in Russia’s far east—a move that could force foreign investors to abandon the project—shocking already skittish energy market...
Default Won’t Trigger a Long Winter for Russia
Failing to pay your debts can stop you getting a loan again. Except if you are a country—even Russia. Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution. Becaus...
Reports Claim Russia Defaulted on Foreign Debt for the First Time in a Century, Kremlin Disagrees and Says It Paid – Economics Bitcoin News
According to reports, the Russian Federation has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since 1918. Bondholders told the press that they had not received payments from the transcontinental c...
Kremlin Insists Brittney Griner Is Not A ‘Hostage’ After Extending Her Detention A Third Time
Topline Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov pushed back against suggestions that WNBA star Brittney Griner was being held hostage by Russian authorities, in an interview with NBC News on Monday, a stat...
Kremlin Ousts Official Who Called Ukraine War A ‘Catastrophe’
Topline The Kremlin dismissed Natalia Poklonskaya from her government role Monday, just weeks after she became one of the few Russian officials to criticize its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in the late...
The Internet Pioneer Brought Low as Kremlin Ally by EU Sanctions
(Bloomberg) — European Union sanctions on the founder and former head of Russia’s most popular Internet search engine show how an increasing number of Russian businessmen are facing measures tha...
Zelensky Says He Won’t Attack Russian Territory—But Russia Blasts U.S. For Sending Rockets To Ukraine
Topline Ukraine is “not interested” in attacking Russian territory and only intends to use foreign supplied weapons to drive out invading forces from its own land, the country’s president Volodymyr Ze...
Europe lurches closer to energy crisis as Kremlin cuts off gas supply to Shell
gazprom gas Europe lurched closer to an energy crisis on Tuesday after the Kremlin cut off gas supplies to major buyers including Shell. Russia’s state-owned gas supplier, Gazprom, said supplies to Sh...
The Russians Are Throwing Everything They’ve Got At One Ukrainian Garrison
Russian paratroopers in Popasna. Social media capture With a thunderous artillery barrage, the Russian army on Thursday launched its latest offensive in Ukraine. Much of what’s left of the Russian arm...
Kremlin Calls Reports Of May 9 War Declaration ‘Nonsense’—But The U.S. And U.K. Believe Putin Has Something Up His Sleeve
Topline Russia has no plans to declare war against Ukraine as part of its Victory Day celebration May 9, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, but mounting Western intelligence suggests Russ...
China Messaging On Ukraine Shows Support For Russia’s Invasion: U.S. State Department
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, right, and Xi Jinping, China’s president, listen to questions at … [+] the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2019. Photographer: Andrey Rud...
World’s largest crypto exchange blocks accounts of Kremlin officials’ relatives
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third month, organizations around the world are exercising various kinds of pressure to force the invading nation to retreat, including cryptocurrency exchan...
Russian Bombers Just Carpet-Bombed Mariupol
Tu-22Ms drop unguided bombs on Syria. Russian defense ministry photo Russian air force Tu-22M bombers flew into Ukrainian air space on Thursday and dropped unguided bombs on Ukrainian troops in the be...
Air Cover Might Have Saved Russia’s Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Slava’ in 1982. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Early Wednesday morning, the Russian navy cruiser Moskva exploded around 60 miles off the Ukrainian coast near Odessa. The 612-foot, Slava-clas...
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer—A Putin Critic—Will Visit Kremlin
Topline Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, he announced Sunday afternoon, marking the first visit of an avowed Putin critic to the K...
Russia’s Creditors May Have To Choose Between Getting Paid In Rubles Or Not Getting Paid At All
The Kremlin says it’s prepared to make debt payments in rubles, with the U.S. Treasury blocking access to its dollars. Getty Russia’s creditors face the unappetizing prospect of accepting debt p...
Kremlin Continues Efforts To Spread Propaganda Through U.K. Hoax Calls
Topline The Russian duo behind hoax phone calls to a pair of high-ranking U.K. officials last week released a likely altered clip of its call Thursday with U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel, marking the...
Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Participated In Early Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks, Kremlin Says
Topline Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was involved in the early stages of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, one day after it emerged that...
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A residential building in Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv after shelling by Russian military forces … [+] on March 15, 2022 The State Emergency Service of Ukraine Dispatches from Ukraine, provid...
Russian Spokesperson—Contradicting Putin—Admits Conscripts On Frontlines In Latest Communication Blunder
Topline Since its full invasion of Ukraine began last month, the Kremlin has shown rare vulnerability in controlling the narrative regarding its war on Ukraine, experts say, turning to significant inf...
U.S. Sanctions 7 Russian Oligarchs And Kremlin Press Secretary Peskov
Topline The White House announced tough sanctions on seven titans of Russian business and Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov on Thursday, and imposed visa restrictions on 19 oligarchs and dozens of...