Russia

The European Commission’s idea to restrict the import of aluminum wire rod from Russia has encountered resistance from industrial companies in at least two EU countries, as reported by the…

UK Political Coordinator Fergus Eckersley has warned the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine that Russia’s sourcing of weapons from sanctioned states poses a serious risk to international peace and…

The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) “with immediate effect until further notice”. The move comes after the Russian Olympic Committee recognised regional organisations from Luhansk, Donetsk,…

In an audacious display of Chutzpah Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations human rights council in an election that will be seen as a key test of its international…

Five Bulgarians arrested on spying charges. Five Bulgarian nationals stand accused of conspiring to gather information which would be useful to an enemy, namely Russia,  between August 2020 and February…

Vladimir Putin, addressing the annual Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, has stated that Soviet invasions were “wrong,” the BBC has reported. Putin admits: The Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were…

Ambassador Neil Holland on behalf of the OSCE Group of Friends of Georgia. Fifteen years after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Georgia, Ambassador Neil Holland, Head of the United Kingdom’s Delegation to the…

Nobel Prize 2023 awards ceremony to exclude Russia, Belarus, Iran. The Nobel Foundation said on Saturday it would not after all invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus or Iran to…

A Ukrainian drone attack has struck Moscow’s Expo Centre, a large exhibition space used for conferences and conventions and situated less than 5km from the Kremlin. The attack occurred at around…

On August 5th, a naval drone struck a Russian tanker of the “river-sea” class that was transporting products near the Kerch Strait. The SIG tanker was involved in the supply…