Russia scraps pomp in New Year revelry amid Ukraine fighting
Russians are used to celebrating the New Year — the country’s main holiday — with pomp, joy and high spirits.
Russians are used to celebrating the New Year — the country’s main holiday — with pomp, joy and high spirits.
Russia has expressed “indignation” at comments by Pope Francis singling out the alleged role of Russian ethnic minorities in Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine, news agencies reported Tuesday.
When Poland’s president spoke about a missile explosion in a Polish village to someone he thought was his French counterpart, he was in fact talking to a Russian prankster.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday introduced martial law in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed.
A Russian crackdown has driven a global decline in internet freedom although a number of smaller countries are making headway, Freedom House said in a study Tuesday.
Russian forces launched a barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine early Monday, in an apparent retaliation for an explosion that damaged a key bridge to Moscow-annexed Crimea.
The US and Russia are discussing a prisoner exchange that would involve trading a notorious Russian arms trafficker for an American basketball star, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday condemned the Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday that he was “deeply disappointed and saddened” by the behaviour of his old friend Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine invasion.
The Ukrainian government estimated Monday the economic damages losses from the Russian invasion, which has been underway for just over one month, at nearly $565 billion.