#OpEd It is hypocritical for governments to claim they're tough on Russia's super rich when they leave the peripheries of their empires untouched, writes Jason Corcoran.

The book was translated from Persian by writer and critic Alexander Andryushkin, who is known for his work on Iranian literature.

A company spokesperson said the closures were part of an optimization strategy as VkusVill shifts its focus toward online delivery.

The Defense Ministry appears to be setting quotas for universities in an attempt to recruit the highest possible number of students.

The vessels are reported to have ties to Russian defense finance, government insiders and the export of resources extracted from occupied Ukraine.

It marks the third time that Russia has made such a claim since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Sources told state media that the government is trying to jawbone Apple into returning Russian apps to its App Store after they were removed due to Western sanctions.

Dudarev's case “is in order to reinstill in citizens this Soviet feeling, that somehow nothing will change,” one activist said, “so they are afraid to show themself and to come out against what is happening in Russia.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said the crash was likely caused by a “technical malfunction.”

Finnish authorities are investigating a crashed unmanned aircraft spotted on a frozen lake near Russia, the Border Guard told AFP, two days after stray drones crashed in southern Finland.

North Korea's KCNA and Russia's TASS have agreed to counter jointly what they call "disinformation" delivered by their "many enemies."

#OpEd Russian officials claim that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz shows that the future of global shipping lies in Russia's Arctic. But that route risks unique environmental disasters that Russia has shown it cannot clean up, warn Vselovod Levchenko and Charles Digges.

More than 90,000 head of cattle have been culled across at least nine regions since February, drawing widespread attention in Russia.

Military analysts said it was the first known case of an official document publicly outlining recruitment quotas for companies.

Sibur, the petrochemical company that owns the plant, said the explosion was likely caused by an “equipment malfunction.”

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Zelensky’s call for an Easter ceasefire was vague and fell short of reaching a lasting peace.

"Ust‑Luga stopped taking gasoline and fuel oil [on March 22] ... Within days we will have to cut runs ​to minimum levels and then potentially shut units," a refinery specialist told Reuters.

Violent crime committed by active-duty Russian servicemen has surged since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the news outlet Vot Tak reported, with murders, sexual assaults and robberies rising far faster than the military’s expansion.

The General Prosecutor’s Office claimed that the university “radicalizes” Russians by eroding their trust in the government and military.

Of 117 recorded violent incidents at Russian schools since 2000, around half have occurred in the past five years.

VPNs are a common tool that Russians have increasingly turned to in recent years to get around internet surveillance and censorship.

Ukraine has struck Baltic Sea ports multiple times over the past week in a bid to deprive Russia of windfalls from soaring oil prices.

A French court Monday issued an arrest warrant and a one-year jail sentence against the Chinese captain of a suspected Russian "shadow fleet" tanker over failing to comply with orders to stop his ship.

#OpEd Russians who fled their country simply cannot win in the eyes of Europeans and their governments: their very presence is seen as an offense, but they’re expected to put their families at risk by loudly denouncing the war, writes Dan Storyev.

The strategic shift comes nearly a month after the Kulevi oil terminal on the Black Sea coast narrowly avoided being added to an EU list of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Efforts to lure university students into Russia's drone forces have intensified since January as enlistment numbers dwindle and war casualties soar into the hundreds of thousands.

Soldatov, who lives in London, is an expert on Russia’s security services and has co-authored several books with Irina Borogan.

Founded on March 28, 1776, by Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi has since grown into one of the world’s most celebrated opera and ballet stages, surviving fire, revolution, world wars, the Soviet collapse and the rise of Vladimir Putin along the way. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/30/i...

The British Embassy in Moscow dismissed the spying allegations and called the expulsion “completely unacceptable.”

He also said Ukraine and Russia should agree to a mutual halt on strikes against energy infrastructure to help relieve pressure building in oil and gas markets.

The North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Saturday recorded its heaviest 24-hour rainfall since 1919.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he wouldn't oppose shipments of oil, including from Russia, to Cuba, contradicting a March Treasury waiver banning Russian oil deliveries to the island. Emanuel Pietrobon explained why Cuba matters to Russia.

Authorities said that the port city of Taganrog bore the brunt of a wider air assault on the southern Rostov region.

Trump said Sunday that the U.S. would not oppose shipments of oil to the island, including from Russia.

Ukraine has intensified retaliatory attacks on Russian infrastructure, including refineries, oil depots and ports. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/29/r...

#OpEd "Each such strike proves that Russia has no intention of ending this war. That is why any easing of pressure on it is dangerous," Zelensky said.

#OpEd Even before the Iran war drove up oil prices, Washington's strategy of conceding to the Kremlin enabled Russia's continued war on Ukraine, warns Elena Davlikanova.

Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said one drone struck a vehicle in the border village of Malomikhaylovka, killing the driver.

Swimming has been banned around the resort city of Anapa in the Krasnodar region since thousands of metric tons of heavy fuel oil, known as mazut, washed ashore in December 2024.

The Russian Embassy in Tehran said Friday that food and medicine supplies were sent to Iran.

The designation comes days after Pavel Talankin’s film won best documentary at the 2026 Academy Awards.

An unidentified businessman was said to have proposed the idea during a private meeting, but the Russian president himself did not request that donations be made to the state, according to the Kremlin.

Alexei Smirnov entered into a plea bargain with prosecutors after alleging that Roman Starovoit received millions of rubles in a kickback scheme.

A rash of stabbings, shootings and other violent incidents involving students in Russian schools has spread across the country in recent weeks. What is going on?

Members of the State Duma delegation said they also talked about restarting student exchange programs and direct flights.

A sustained 50% price increase for fertilizer could give Russia roughly $360 million in additional monthly income, or more than $1 billion per quarter.

Alexei Dudarev's research focused on the health of people who live in Russia’s northernmost regions. Last month, reports started cropping up that left colleagues dumbfounded: he had been arrested for treason. What really led to the imprisonment of a respected scientist?

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the attack on the Russian House "barbaric."

As the world’s second-largest fertilizer producer, Russia is well positioned to capitalize on the disruption.

As the world’s second-largest fertilizer producer, Russia is well positioned to capitalize on the disruption.