Russia

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ordered the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) to allow Russia’s national teams to return to international tournaments immediately. The ruling surprised everyone — including the Russian team itself. It is not even clear how to carry it out in practice, since the fields for this season’s […]

Angry crowds attempted to storm a facility linked to Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov unit, prompting the intervention of Zelensky’s top aide Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian State Library, also known as the Leninka, hosted “LitRAVE” overnight from October 31 to November 1. The publishing group Eksmo-AST and the library jointly organized the event. About 3,000 people gathered in the reading rooms on three dance floors playing techno, electronic pop, and ambient music, according to Eksmo-AST.

The Atlantic and The New York Times published reports in October on clashes between Ukrainian and Russian forces in underground tunnels beneath the front line. Soldiers travel long distances through gas pipelines to evade drone strikes and catch the enemy off guard. Meduza summarizes the key points from these reports.

Many Alta customers lost access to their money after the National Bank of Serbia revoked the bank’s license. Alta was one of the few local banks that opened accounts for Russians who had emigrated. Customers’ salaries, savings, and money for monthly expenses are frozen. Serbian authorities have promised to repay up to 50,000 euros in lost […]

In mid-October 2026, Moscow hosted a conference on HIV research and clinical practice. Doctors specializing in HIV discussed the situation in Russia.

Russian space companies are selling Chinese satellite imagery as images from their own spacecraft. Bart Hendrickx, a researcher who studies Russia’s space program, uncovered the practice and published his findings in The Space Review. Meduza explains how he discovered it and whether Chinese satellites have been passed off as Russian before.

Several dozen people gathered outside a house in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka in Ukraine’s Kyiv region on the evening of November 2, saying people were being held inside and that their captors “are torturing” them. Hromadske, Interfax-Ukraine, and other Ukrainian news outlets reported the incident.

St. Petersburg authorities have cut the city-funded one-time payment for people who sign contracts with the Defense Ministry to 400,000 rubles, Fontanka reported.

Ukraine could receive 500 missiles for Patriot air defense systems from the United States between the fourth quarter of 2030 and the fourth quarter of 2033, European Pravda and CNN correspondent Jennifer Hansler reported, citing a State Department representative. The department previously approved the sale.

On October 31, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned on its website of a possible terrorist attack at the Tsaritsyno museum and park complex. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed that it had received a warning from the United States, after which the complex closed “for technical reasons.” No attack occurred. The following day, the […]

In early August 2024, Ukraine invaded Russia’s Kursk region. Despite officials’ promises to drive Ukrainian forces out within months or even days, a substantial part of the region remained under Ukrainian control until the following spring. Russia had not experienced occupation since World War II, and life in the Kursk region still has not […]

Russian forces bombed the village of Komyshuvakha in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, killing 18 people and injuring five others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Davor Macura, the owner of Alta Bank and a businessman with close ties to the Serbian Progressive Party, has been detained in Serbia, the local news outlet Nova.rs reported. At the time of the report, there had been no official announcement of his detention.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has submitted his resignation to King Philippe, according to The Brussels Times and Belgium’s Royal Palace.

Estonian authorities have expelled Russian citizen Leonid Karabeshkin on suspicion of ties to Russian intelligence services and banned him from entering the Schengen Area, Estonia’s public broadcaster ERR reported.

Ukrainian prisoner of war Ruslan Romanov has died in Russia, where he was on trial under three terrorism statutes, the news outlet Mediazona reported.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on measures to support the operation of information resources in Russia, requiring owners of private data centers to reserve 10% of their available space and capacity for state needs.

Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said she has no data on how many people left the city of Oleshky in the Kherson region. She made the comment at a news conference on the results of the humanitarian mission.

Foreign pharmaceutical companies that supply cancer treatment drugs to Russia spend about $500 million a year on “bonuses” for intermediaries, suppliers, and staff at Russian hospitals, according to an investigation by Proekt, a Russian investigative outlet. The investigation is based on the testimony of a senior executive […]

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says its agents seized a shipment of FPV drone-control goggles that had been rigged with homemade explosives, recovering them from multiple regions across the country.

Rostelecom, Russia’s largest internet provider, plans to build underground data centers with “an increased level of protection against external threats,” the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported, citing sources at the company.

A US-backed plan to restart Russian gas transit through Ukraine is impossible right now, the Kremlin has said Read Full Article at RT.com

A second satellite from Russia’s “Rassvet” constellation, developed by the Russian company Bureau 1440, has fallen out of orbit and burned up in the atmosphere, the Ukrainian outlet Defence Express reported. Independent trackers that rely on data from the U.S. NORAD space catalog confirmed the loss as well.

On October 30, Serbia’s Central Bank revoked the license of Alta, one of the few local banks where Russians could relatively easily open an account. Clients’ accounts were frozen. Many had kept money there from selling property in Russia, while others received their salaries through Alta accounts. Authorities promised to return up to 50,000 […]

Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services prepared the mission to evacuate civilians from Oleshky, in the Kherson region, but presented it as the result of mediation, sources told the French newspaper Le Monde.

Bulgaria’s acting president, Iliana Yotova, won the second round of the country’s presidential election on November 1.

The United States has proposed a plan to Vladimir Putin that would let Russia sell its natural gas to Europe through an American intermediary, bypassing European sanctions, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

Russia’s Federal Security Service says it has thwarted a Ukrainian plot to deliver booby-trapped drone pilot headsets to frontline troops Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s Finance Ministry has drafted a bill that would move the funded portion of pensions into the long-term savings program (PDS), the Russian business news outlet RBC reported. The transfer would happen automatically starting April 1, 2027.