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An experienced realtor has come under scrutiny for suspected involvement in illicit schemes to recruit players for online casinos, prompting serious interest from Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency.

The move underscores years of forced transfers amid growing international concern over Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

A graduate of Kuban State Medical University, who moved to Moscow, eventually became a figure in criminal chronicles, yet his criminal case has been stalled for several years in endless investigative bodies.

The media have identified a previously unknown business partner of Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov — Yakov Babchenko, a former convict, poker and billiards enthusiast, and participant in budget-related schemes.

Russian companies are involved in secretive exports of oil products to North Korea, in violation of UN sanctions that Moscow itself supported, according to a new investigation.

In the early 2000s, the current head of Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, was closely associated with one of Aslan Gagiev’s (Dzhako) most violent gangs.

Despite holding a government position that legally bars him from commercial activity, Russian oligarch and senator Suleiman Kerimov is allegedly running major business projects — and doing so jointly with one of the most powerful figures in the Kremlin: Anton Vaino, head of the presidential administration.

The saga of Marina Minina — a social-climbing swindler who fooled diplomats, businessmen, and celebrity families — exposes a stunning trail of deception stretching from Kurgan to Moscow and all the way to the Yamalo-Nenets elite.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has announced the completion of a key phase of an international operation to disrupt the largest financial fraud scheme in recent years, which evaded sanctions and allowed Russian entities access to foreign accounts.

In the fall of 2025, the Russian segment of Telegram experienced the most extensive wave of purges in recent years — with searches, detentions, and the blocking of channels that were once considered influential and nearly untouchable.

Even as the Russian economy slides into recession, the country’s television propagandists have no incentive to defect from Team Putin — after all, their personal incomes are growing at unprecedented rates.

77-year-old Gazi Luguev, who has long resided in comfortable Geneva and is considered the leader of the Dagestani organized crime group, has suddenly appeared in Moscow — what could be the reason for his return?

A crowd reportedly composed of migrants broke out into a mass brawl in the streets of Moscow, with mobs armed with iron bars and shovels seen chasing panicked local residents.

On his 13th trip to Russia since its full-scale assault on Ukraine, Foreign Minister Szijjártó denounced the EU’s energy diversification agenda as "crazy".

Donald Trump has warned Russia he may send Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles if Moscow does not end its war soon.

Russian authorities are conducting an investigation into the death of a prominent figure who fell from a window in western Moscow.

In June 2024, Austria revoked the accreditation of two correspondents for the state-controlled Russian news agency TASS — Ivan Popov and Arina Davidyan — on the suspicion that they were not journalists, but spies for the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized after being poisoned in a suspected assassination attempt in Moscow, a human rights group has claimed.

A Fabergé egg commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913 is estimated to sell for more than £20 million at auction.

Russian President Vladimir Putin “in his heart of hearts” realises he cannot win the war in Ukraine, according to US special envoy Keith Kellogg. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum, Kellogg said the conflict was “unwinnable” for Moscow in the long term and that Ukraine was making steady progress in undermining Russia’s ability to sustain it.

Moldovans began voting on Sunday in parliamentary elections that could see the country neighbouring Ukraine swerve from its pro-European path towards Moscow, with the government and the EU accusing Russia of “deeply interfering”.

Europe is preparing to construct a massive defence layer called the "drone wall" to deter Russian incursions into NATO airspace.

A fugitive tech boss turned Russian spymaster has been found in Moscow.