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

Two more journalists working with international newspapers have reportedly been arrested, accused of 'extremism' in connection with alleged work for the foundation of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Patriot, an autobiographical book Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was working on before his death last 16 February in a prison in Siberia, will be published on October 22

5.000 minors have been evacuated from Russia's Belgorod region, located near the border with Ukraine, following weeks of shelling by Kiev forces

The defendants for the Moscow bombing were brought to court with signs of torture: swollen faces, bruises and cuts, one accompanied lifelessly in a wheelchair; Putin has, after initially blaming Ukraine, accepted the jihadist element