Current Time is the Russian-language TV and digital network run by RFE/RL.
A Russian attack on a residential area of the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya killed two people and injured seven, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on August 9 as the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive operations continued along the front line.
Authorities in Italy have halted an investment program for Russian and Belarusian citizens that offered residency permits in exchange for large investments.
Kyiv has accused the Kremlin of deliberately targeting rescue workers in missile strikes on residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in two attacks on August 7. Rescuers were responding to the first strike when another followed.
Our reporter made contact with a Wagner mercenary via a dating app. She did not reveal that she was a journalist. The fighter spoke about the recent Wagner mutiny in Russia, being on "vacation" in Belarus, and "trophy cars" stolen in Ukraine.
Russia has addded Norway to its list of countries that have committed "unfriendly" acts against Russian diplomatic and consular missions abroad.
Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against Mikhail Svetov, the leader of the Libertarian Party of Russia, for allegedly rehabilitating Nazism.
The West Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office said on August 2 that a seaplane crashed in the region of Krasnoyarsk, killing both people on board.
Ukrainian military medic Mykola Iliychuk took his final medical exams online because he was already serving on the front line of Russia's war on his country. Now, he's driving an armored ambulance and conducting triage among Ukrainian casualties.
The cruise ship Astoria Grande, with some 800 mostly Russian passengers on board, was met with fresh protests as it arrived in the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi early on July 31 on its way back from Istanbul.
Czech media reports say investigators have frozen bank accounts and impounded the property of Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov and his son Feliks in Prague and Karlovy Vary.
Russian children's commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova has said that more than 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken from Ukraine to Russia since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Motherland Monument soars above Kyiv, still sporting Soviet icons, but plans are afoot to replace them with symbols representing Ukraine. What do the locals make of it?
Children are not only being taken from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia, but also to Belarus. The country's leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has claimed "they don't want to leave." But exiled Belarusian opposition politicians and the Ukrainian authorities say the children were abducted.
Russia's Defense Ministry said on July 28 that it had thwarted an attack by a drone "on objectives in the Moscow region" overnight.
The Russian government has raised the duty on imported wine from 12.5 percent to 20 percent and banned the import of finished fish and seafood products from "unfriendly countries."
The former head of a local branch of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's team has been sentenced to nine years in prison for participating in an "extremist community," Navalny's team said on July 24.
Two drones were reported to have hit buildings in Moscow early on July 24, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, with media reports saying debris was found not far from Defense Ministry headquarters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in St. Petersburg with Belarusian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who was quoted as saying in an apparent joking tone that fighters of Russia's Wagner mercenary group who are now training Belarus's army were keen to push into NATO member Poland.
A Russian military correspondent for the state-run RIA Novosti news agency was killed during shelling in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on July 22.
Pavel Gubarev, an associate of Igor Girkin, the former military commander of Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine who was sent to pretrial detention following his criticism of Putin, was detained by security forces in Moscow after picketing the Meshchansky district court to demand Girkin's release.
Load more
