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Britain’s National Crime Agency has for the first time asked a court to permanently seize funds held by a Russian oligarch, arguing that they are “proceeds of crime,” because he allegedly moved the money in violation of sanctions regulations.

Valery Falkov, Russia’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, reported to the president on the progress of the federal project “Advanced Engineering Schools,” aimed at retraining individuals to meet the demands of the modern economy.

On Sunday, June 23, dozens of vacationers on a beach in occupied Crimea were injured, and five were killed, after Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian missile over Sevastopol.

Poland has launched a government commission to investigate Russian influence in the country.

Two and a half years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the West has finally given up on the prospect of reaching a just peace through negotiations, journalist and Ukrainian serviceman Yuriy Matsarsky argues.

The recent Russian setback in Kharkiv marks the start of another period of stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine war.

The money will be used for direct purchases of kit like ammunition and aerial defense systems.

Several people have been killed including six police officers after gunmen opened fire on a synagogue, an Orthodox Church, and a police post in Russia.

Ukraine says satellite pictures show the destruction of a Russian warehouse used to launch Iranian-made drones and to train cadets.

Russia has effectively dismantled and replaced the Wagner Group in the year since the mercenaries shocked the world by launching a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC.

China’s military could isolate Taiwan, cripple its economy, and make the democratic island succumb to the will of Beijing’s ruling Communist Party without ever firing a shot, a prominent think tank warns.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an “independent Finnish journalist” named “Kosti Heiskanen” has frequently appeared on Russian propaganda broadcasts.

Rishi Sunak and Volodymyr Zelensky have slammed Nigel Farage for his dangerous claims that the West provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow has shifted tactics from targeting individual electricity substations to attempting to destroy entire power stations.

The Commerce Department on Friday barred US companies from using computer security products from Kaspersky Lab, the Russian company whose products are widely used in the United States

The Reform UK leader said that he "disliked" the Russian president - but had admired his abilities as a statesman.

Russia and China are currently united by many things — a natural gas pipeline, mutual antipathy towards Washington, authoritarian politics, and, increasingly, a state-sponsored homophobic agenda.

Tell enough kids at school they can’t play with you anymore and soon enough you’ll be the one left out.

Vladimir Putin said Russia and North Korea have ramped up ties to a “new level,” pledging to help each other if either nation is attacked in a “breakthrough” new partnership announced during the Russian president’s rare visit to the reclusive state.

Authorities in Moscow issued arrest warrants against Roman Anin, the editor-in-chief of Important Stories (IStories), and journalist Ekaterina Fomina, accusing them of spreading fake news about the Russian army.

Villas, luxury clothes, business in Europe… The Russian businessmen who financed the invasion of Ukraine do not want their children and grandchildren to live in their homeland, so they easily send them to “decaying Europe”.

Putin’s niece Anna Tsivileva has been appointed as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, as stated in the official decree published on Russia’s legal acts portal.

According to Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, three saboteurs convicted of taking part in a Russian plan to stoke anti-Ukrainian sentiment and to disrupt transportation networks in Poland vanished after being sentenced by a Lublin court in Dec. 2023.

Russian special forces stormed a detention centre in southern Russia, freeing two prison guards and shooting dead six inmates linked to the Islamic State militant group.

Two young women gave their accounts of rape by Russian soldiers to the Kyiv Independent, who set out to identify those responsible.