Europe Russia The country would be working on creating 'African military corps' to replace the Wagner group; according to a report by Radio France International, this initiative emerged following the visit of the Russian Deputy Defence Minister to Niger
Europe Russia Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the LGBT 'movement' is 'extremist', sparking a global outcry over fears that the designation will allow the country to tighten repression against gays and transgender people
Europe Russia Russia will respond if Finland closes the remaining border crossings between the two countries, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, not specifying Moscow's reaction
Europe Russia An investigation under the hypothesis of a 'terrorist act' has been opened for the derailment of a train in Ryazan region; numerous sabotage incidents on the Russian railway network have occurred since the start of the war in Ukraine
Europe Russia The Defence Ministry announced that it had 'successfully' tested - internally - an intercontinental ballistic missile launched from a submarine in the White Sea, off the country's northwest coast, towards Kamchatka peninsula
Europe Russia Russian-American journalist Kurmasheva will remain in detention, the second US journalist detained after Gershkovich was arrested in March for espionage; international experts consider the episode part of unprecedented crackdown on independent journalism
Europe Russia Aleksei Navalny attended a hearing by video, without the assistance of a lawyer, after three of his lawyers were arrested and two others left the country; during his testimony the sound cut out and the whole video was subsequently lost
Europe Russia At its next meeting, the Russian State Duma Council will discuss the issue of revoking the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Europe Russia 130.000 citizens of the Russian Federation aged between 18 and 27 will been called to military service in the period October-December 2023 by a newly signed Presidential decree
Europe Russia G7 countries are expected to announce a ban on the import of Russian diamonds in the coming weeks in an attempt to further cut Moscow's revenues; globally, the country is the largest supplier
Europe Russia Wagner group will be defined as a "terrorist organization," according to proposed legislation in the UK; Wagner group is accused by international organizations of war crimes and use of torture systems
Europe Russia ours before the accident that allegedly killed General Prigozhin, Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Russian Air Force, had been removed from office; he wasn’t seen in public since Wagner's uprising, to which he was thought to be very close
Europe Russia First lunar landing spacecraft in 47 years was launched by the country in an attempt to be the first nation to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to contain coveted pockets of water ice