Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges has been released. The 32-year-old basketball player was released on Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for…
Hackers caused a major traffic jam in Moscow after exploiting the Russian ride-hailing app, Yandex Taxi, to summon all available taxis to the same location at the same time (via Vice). The attack…
The Russian capital Moscow was on Thursday hit by a mixture of particulates and gas called smog coming from forest fires in a nearby region in the midst of a summer heatwave. Several…
U.S. President Joe Biden flies to Europe on Wednesday for an emergency NATO summit on Ukraine, where invading Russian troops are stalled, cities are under bombardment and the besieged port of Mariupol is…
Local authorities in the Ukrainian besieged city of Mariupol said thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the border to Russia. “Over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents were…
Russia on Thursday warned the U.S. that Moscow had the might to put the United States in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart….
Russia must immediately suspend its invasion of Ukraine, the International Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday in The Hague. By a vote of 13 to two, with Vice-President Kirill Gevorgian of Russia and…
Artem Dzyuba, one of Russia’s all-time leading goalscorers, has asked not to be picked for the national team because of the conflict in Ukraine, coach Valery Karpin said in an interview published on…
Russia has lost up to 40 per cent of the units it sent into Ukraine when Moscow invaded its neighbour in February, the Ukrainian military’s general staff said on Wednesday. The troops were…
A Ukrainian actor, Pasha Lee, has been killed by Russian strikers after a week after he joined his country’s army to fight against the invasion. Described as the “most joyful and sunny” by…
