A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. Soviet army photo After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace these losse...
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Uzbekistan Unblocks Popular Russian Crypto Exchange Aggregator – Exchanges Bitcoin News
The government body overseeing the crypto market in Uzbekistan has restored access to Bestchange.ru, a well-known exchange aggregator in the region. The move comes after earlier this year the regulato...
The Russian Army Appears To Be Pulling Out Of Kherson
Ukrainian troops with M-113 personnel carriers. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A city bus, rolling unimpeded past a military checkpoint in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson on or before Thursday,...
Russian Military Leaders Reportedly Discussed When And How Moscow Would Use Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine
Topline Russian military leaders have discussed how and when Moscow might deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine, according to U.S. intelligence reported by the New York Times on Wednesday, adding to mount...
Putin Critic And Tycoon Oleg Tinkov Renounces Russian Citizenship
Topline Former banking tycoon Oleg Tinkov renounced his Russian citizenship, he announced on Instagram Monday, months after the ex-billionaire accused the Kremlin of forcing him to sell his stake in R...
Ukrainian Saboteurs Reportedly Blew Up Russian Helicopters 500 Miles From Ukraine
A Kamov Ka-52. Wikimedia Commons Russian air force regiments flying the service’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters have been having a difficult war. It just got a lot more difficult. Ukrainian air defen...
Putin ‘Destroyed’ Russian Economy Save For Oil, White House Says
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin has sunk his country’s economy outside of the still lucrative oil exports, a Biden Administration official said Monday, as Russia largely retreats from the glo...
French Lawyer Asks Russian Patriarch to Help Save Alexander Vinnik From ‘Political Trial’ in US – Bitcoin News
A member of the defense team of the alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik has called on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to intervene in support of his client. The Russian national may be sen...
What Are Putin’s ‘Filtration Camps’ And Why Are They Concerning?
Ten months of Putin’s war in Ukraine have seen a litany of atrocities including summary executions, unlawful confinement, torture, ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, forced displacement of...
Russian Legislators Propose New Bill Legalizing Crypto Mining
16 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News There has been an uptick in the notion of allowing cross-border crypto. The liberal New People group proposed mining measure, but it was shot down. Russia’s l...
The Russian Black Sea Fleet May Have Lost Another Flagship
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian navy for months has been hunting the Russian navy frigate Admiral Makarov. It seems the Ukrainians finally got a shot at the 409-foot, mi...
Global Food Crisis Back On? Russia Bails From Grain Deal, Blaming Ukraine Drone Attack
Topline Russian officials reneged on its deal with Ukraine clearing the Black Sea for grain exports, after it claimed Ukraine led a drone strike on its Crimean naval fleet—threatening what officials w...
New Mining Bill Permitting Cross-Border Crypto Payments Filed in Russian Parliament – Mining Bitcoin News
A draft law designed to regulate the mining of digital coins in Russia is also legalizing the use of cryptocurrencies in international settlements. It has been submitted to the Russian parliament afte...
The Russian And Ukrainian Armies Brace For The Dreaded ‘Wet Cold’ Winter
A Ukrainian tank in the Donbas mud. Ukrainian defense ministry photo There are two winters in Ukraine. The first, in the final couple months of the year, are cold—but not cold enough for a deep freeze...
12,000 Russian Troops Were Supposed To Defend Kaliningrad. Then They Went To Ukraine To Die.
The 11th Army Corps in 2017. Russian defense ministry photo Six years ago, the Russian navy formed a new army corps whose job it would be to defend Kaliningrad, Russia’s geographically separate outpos...
A Fierce Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade Is Routing Russian Mercenaries In One Symbolic Eastern Town
The 93rd Mechanized Brigade around Bakhmut. Photo via the Ukrainian general staff When Ukrainian forces launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine starting in late August and earl...
Russian court denies Griner’s appeal, sends her to a penal colony
US’ Women’s National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of ca...
Cyprus Could Transfer Its Russian Armaments To Ukraine If Guaranteed Speedy Replacements
The Biden administration’s lifting of the U.S. arms embargo on Cyprus on Oct. 1 has rekindled the prospect of Nicosia transferring its Russian military arsenal to Ukraine in return for Western-m...
Russian Parliament Rejects Mining Bill Allowing Crypto Payments, Expects New Draft – Mining Bitcoin News
The lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma, has voted against a piece of legislation designed to regulate cryptocurrency mining. While lawmakers turned down that proposal, which also aimed ...
Ukraine Seized Crypto Wallet that Supported Russian Military
Ukraine’s security service force blocked and seized $19,500 from a Russian crypto wallet. The crypto wallet was dedicated to Russian Military Financing. Ukraine’s Seizure on Russian Crypto Wallet The ...
Russian Defense Chief Claims—Without Evidence—Ukraine Could Use ‘Dirty Bomb’
Topline Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told foreign defense officials on Sunday—without citing any evidence—Ukraine could be planning to make use of a “dirty bomb,” a claim U.S. and U.K. offic...
Kraken Closes Accounts for all Russian Users
The US-based cryptocurrency exchange – Kraken – joined the list of platforms restricting services to Russian consumers. The decision comes as a result of the latest sanctions that the European Union (...
Russia Urges Kherson Evacuation Amid Warnings Of Imminent Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Topline Russian-installed authorities in Kherson ordered residents to “immediately” evacuate the area as Ukrainian forces close in on the eastern Ukrainian city—captured by Russian forces in the early...
Memes With Kanye And Trump, Joking With A Former Russian President And A Possible Federal Probe
Topline The world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk had yet another eventful week, chumming up to Kanye West even as the rapper comes under fire for a series of antisemitic comments, trading barbs with Russi...
Kraken crypto exchange is next to close doors to Russian users
Kraken is the latest cryptocurrency exchange to restrict accounts of Russian users on its platform in compliance with sanctions from the European Union. On Oct. 19, Kraken sent out email statements to...
Russian users are welcomed by crypto exchanges in Kazakhstan, but there’s a catch
Some cryptocurrency exchanges continue onboarding Russian nationals despite the latest Western sanctions against Russia, but not without certain restrictions. In late September, Kazakhstan’s President...
Germany’s Dependence On Russian Gas Coincided With Drop In Wind Investment
Wind turbines are seen near the coal-fired power station Neurath of German energy giant RWE in … [+] Garzweiler, western Germany, on March 15, 2021. – On March 16, 2021, the group will pre...
US Alleges 5 Russian Nationals Used Crypto as Part of Sanctions Evasion, Smuggling Scheme
Yury Orekhov, Artem Uss, Svetlana Kuzurgasheva (also known as “Lana Neumann”), Timofey Telegin and Sergey Tulyakov are being charged with attempting to evade sanctions against Venezuelan oil producers...
New Russian Soldiers Issued Fake Body Armor
If you are a Russian soldier, you cannot rely on body armor to protect you. Because there is a good chance that it is either inadequate, missing or even, due to chronic corruption, a replica made for ...
EU to Target Crypto Miners’ Power Usage as Union Relies Less on Russian Energy – Mining Bitcoin News
Authorities in Brussels are taking steps to reduce power consumption, including in cryptocurrency mining, as the EU faces limited energy supplies from Russia, the reliance on which it has been trying ...
There’s A Good Reason The Russian Air Force Is Faltering. Ukrainian Air-Defense Crews Have Better Apps.
Kropyva in action in an Osa air-defense vehicle. Via social media It’s not for no reason the Russian military is using Iranian-made, explosives-laden drones to bombard Ukrainian cities. The Russian ai...
The Economics Of A Russian Oil Price Cap
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference at IMF headquarters, October … [+] 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Economists o...