News
- Venice Biennale jury excludes Russia and Israel from list of award contenders
- “Black rain” falls in Russia’s Black Sea town of Tuapse days after Ukraine strikes oil refinery
- EU bans sale of CNC machines to Kyrgyzstan in order to prevent re-export to Russia, a route previously exposed by The Insider
- EU’s 20th sanctions package targets Russian crypto platforms, the “shadow fleet,” and over 100 individuals and companies
- Russian LGBT website Parni Plus designated as “extremist organization”
- “Not often, but it does happen”: Putin comments on Russia’s sweeping internet shutdowns for the first time
- Kremlin bot network Matryoshka answers U.S. senators’ appeal to Meta and Google with wave of fakes about Armenia’s parliamentary elections
- Germany arrests Ukrainian and Latvian nationals outside Nuremberg on suspicion of spying and planning sabotage
- Russian drone-damaged gas carrier Arctic Metagaz adrift again off the coast of Libya after towing cable snaps, raising risk of accident
- Hackers breach Bundestag president Julia Klöckner's account on Signal, Der Spiegel reports
- At least seven dead, thousands of homes damaged after flooding causes landslides in Russia’s Dagestan
- Russia invited to G20 summit in the United States, an event Putin has not attended since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
- CEO and management of Russia’s largest publishing group Eksmo detained and questioned over “distribution of LGBT literature”
- Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich escorted several more sanctioned tankers through the English Channel and remains in the strait
- Russian Supreme Court removes judicial statistics from its website, closing “one of the last sources of objective data on Russian reality”
