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The climbers went missing on Sunday while attempting a highly challenging ascent of Mount Dykhtau.

Law enforcement authorities accused the man of planning to blow up the motorcade of a high-ranking government official.

The new restrictions come after Ukraine struck major oil refineries in Moscow, Samara and Ufa over the past three days.

The EU also rolled over the remaining 3,000 individuals and entities on its Russia sanctions list for another three years, diplomats said.

Court authorities said the man, Michal Plamenek, held up a sign whose inscription was “aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”

The current super El Niño is on track to become the strongest on record.

The Emergency Situations Ministry said the blaze erupted at the Solnechny shopping center at around noon local time on Tuesday.

The comments come in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s renewed calls to abolish both permanent membership on the Security Council and the veto privilege ahead of the 81st UN General Assembly.

Since mid-2025, WB Taxi has launched in Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

The Rosneft-operated Kuibyshev refinery in the southern Samara region has been repeatedly targeted throughout the war.

Anti-war activists and lawyers say that anxiety is rising, even though helping Russians avoid military service has long been a routine part of their work.

Aptar Vladimir was transferred to H&N, which took control of Danone’s Russian operations during a similar asset seizure in 2023.

Without criticizing Donald Trump directly, Russian officials said the latest measures would only further strain relations.

Putin this month transferred the Russian assets of Auchan, Nestlé and Lemana PRO to the temporary management of L.E.V.

The Armenian prime minister said bilateral ties “cannot remain the same as long as there is an environment of peace in Armenia.”

With 95% of the ballots counted, Russian election officials said the pro-Kremlin ruling party received 57.83% of the party-list vote.

Ukraine, Russia have continued attacks on each other's energy infrastructure despite an announcement by Trump on Monday that they had agreed to stop.

A parliamentary election that Putin has cast as a test of support for the war in Ukraine entered its third day, with the ruling United Russia party expected to retain its dominance.

Marat Kambolov, the new president, is from North Ossetia, a Russian republic on the other side of the Caucasus Mountains from South Ossetia.

Subtle acts of protest and organized voting strategies may offer only symbolic victories, but to those taking part, that is still worth the effort.

The measures target Russia's energy and defense industries, as well as its "shadow fleet" of tankers that evade existing sanctions.

Party youth wings are appealing to younger voters with memes and anti-establishment rhetoric — while strictly staying within the Kremlin’s political boundaries.

The buying spree pushed the ESPO grade’s price premium over benchmark ICE Brent to record levels of $20 to $30 per barrel.

Industry experts told Kommersant that the production slump was due to Ukraine ramping up its attacks on the peninsula this summer.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Thursday placing the company’s Russian assets under temporary administration.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Thursday placing the company’s Russian assets under temporary administration.

The Moscow Times has compiled a list detailing where and how Russian athletes can currently compete on the international stage.

In one instance, election workers were forced to relocate to another building after a drone blew out the windows of their polling station.

Marat Kabaev has acquired a stake in a major logistics company working on state oil giant Rosneft’s flagship Arctic project.

Opposition candidates have been barred for reasons ranging from using American songs to mentioning Alexei Navalny.

Nemtsova, who has lived in Europe for several years, faces charges of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization.

During his international career spanning two decades and six Winter Olympic Games, Tchepikov won a gold medal in the biathlon relay in 1988 and another in the sprint in 1994.

Short-selling firm Grizzly Research alleged the Austrian lender has enabled more than $1 billion of Russian trade to circumvent sanctions.

Russia handed over 252 bodies to Ukrainian authorities, while Ukraine returned 23 bodies.

At least 14 people are reported to have been killed in bear attacks across Russia since the start of the year, according to a tally by The Moscow Times.

Ukraine’s military has previously claimed attacks on the Slavneft-Yanos refinery, which has a crude processing capacity of 300,000 barrels per day.

The legislation targets Russia’s energy and defense industries, as well as its “shadow fleet” of tankers that evade existing sanctions.

Even with an all-but-guaranteed majority for United Russia, experts say the vote remains an important gauge of public sentiment.

Russia is holding elections this weekend for the lower-house State Duma, which has a track record of faithfully approving the Kremlin's initiatives.

Bears are confirmed to have killed at least five people in Siberia over the past month, state media reported.

A NATO fighter jet intercepted the unmanned aircraft, identified as a Gerbera, over central Lithuania early Tuesday.

Industry sources said the Syzran plant paused operations on Tuesday, while the Saratov refinery halted work last Friday.

The captain received Russia’s medal “For Courage” after he “prevented a provocation by a Danish helicopter,” the Defense Ministry said.

The deal was part of lengthy negotiations in which Washington is urging Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to free hundreds of people.

Major General Anton Grunis had personally briefed Putin on the capture of the heavily fortified city earlier this summer.

Party chairman Nikolai Rybakov accused the exiled opposition of “manipulating” Russian voters from abroad.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said the plots included efforts to murder a Russian dissident believed to be located in Washington, D.C.

Russian Post had suspended regular mail deliveries to North Korea in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The ministry accused Western politicians of “blatantly ignoring” the warnings of their own governments against visiting war-torn Ukraine.

Syutkin and his wife wrote a weekly cooking column for The Moscow Times until Russia banned it as “undesirable” in July 2024.