Russia

May 04, 2025 13:37

• EU treats flights to Sukhumi as violation of Georgia’s sovereignty

  Russian airlines fly to Abkhazia without the consent of the Georgian authorities and in the absence of the necessary international aviation code for Sukhumi airport, the European External Action Service has stated, declaring its support for the Georgia’s territorial integrity.

May 02, 2025 16:58

• Kuban environmentalists doubt statements on harmlessness of Black Sea fish

  The pollution with the spilled fuel oil (mazut) affects all marine life, but it is impossible to objectively define how poisoned the fish caught in the Black Sea is due to the absence of independent laboratories.

May 02, 2025 14:02

• Renaming Volgograd airport becomes an attempt to rehabilitate Joseph Stalin

  The decree on renaming the Volgograd airport to “Stalingrad” signed by the Russian President fits into a series of conscious and unconscious attempts to rehabilitate the name of Stalin, but there is no real public demand for that, historians and human rights defenders note.

May 02, 2025 13:53

• Georgia condemns flights between Russia and Abkhazia

  The authorities of Georgia have condemned the launch of regular flights between Russia and Abkhazia. The Georgian authorities treat the above as a violation of the Georgia’s territorial integrity.

May 01, 2025 16:37

• Rostov schoolboy arrested on charges of ties to Ukrainian intelligence

  The teenager was assembling an explosive device in his apartment on the instructions of Ukrainian special services, law enforcers assert.

May 01, 2025 14:29

• Sochi resident sentenced to imprisonment in case on high treason

  A resident of Sochi, who worked as a railway security guard, was found guilty of “real assistance to Ukraine” because of his communication with a Ukrainian acquaintance.

April 30, 2025 19:54

• Soltaev's intervention in brawl involving Chechen teen indicates Ombudsperson’s abuse of power

  The role of Mansur Soltaev, Chechen Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsperson) in the case of a teenager accused of beating up other minors in the city of Tver is essentially limited to political and administrative pressure on investigators and concern for his fellow countryman’s interests.

April 30, 2025 17:14

• Five Ukrainian citizens convicted in Rostov-on-Don as members of terrorist community

  The Southern District Military Court sentenced five residents of Melitopol to prison terms ranging from 11 to 14 years, finding them guilty of participating in a terrorist community.

April 30, 2025 14:13

• Zarema Musaeva’s detention period extended

  According to the ruling of the Shali District Court, Zarema Musaeva will remain in custody in the case on disrupting the operation of the penal colony until August 26. The defence will lodge an appeal against the above ruling of the Shali District Court.

April 30, 2025 14:12

• President Putin renames Volgograd airport as “Stalingrad”

  Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, informed Russian President Vladimir Putin that the military veteran community and participants of the special military operation asked to rename the Volgograd airport to “Stalingrad”. Vladimir Putin signed the appropriate decree on the same day.

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