Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project has boosted production to a record high since its launch in December 2023, helped by exports to China, Bloomberg reported.

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#OpEd Russia trumpets any chance to cosy up to China. But for Beijing, Russia is often not top of the priority list, writes Saahil Menon.

The Kremlin-installed mayor of the occupied Ukrainian town of Nova Kakhovka has been killed by a Ukrainian drone strike, pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region said.

Russia, like the United States, is committed to strengthening its military while also seeking peace, the Kremlin said following U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s remarks to American forces.

Schoolchildren across Russia on Tuesday were pictured arranged into the number “89,” Russia’s official tally of its federal subjects following the Sept. 30, 2022, annexation of four Ukrainian regions amid its full-scale invasion. Read more: www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/01/r...

Russia's army claimed to have captured another village in Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, accelerating its advance into an area that had previously been largely spared Moscow's intensive ground offensive.

Moscow blocked the sale because it wants to preserve remaining economic ties with Europe, Reuters' sources said.

Russia is courting partners from Washington to Beijing to develop shipping routes and mine critical minerals in the Arctic. For the region's Indigenous peoples, this means continued poverty, environmental destruction and erasure of their traditions.

Russia fired some 5,638 long-range drones and 185 missiles in overnight attacks throughout the month — up 36% compared with August.

A fire broke out at one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in the Yaroslavl region in what authorities described as a “man-made” incident unrelated to Ukrainian drone strikes. Read more: www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

My latest @themoscowtimes.com OpEd: Putin can't hide it: Gasoline in Russia is being rationed from its western Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad to Vladivostok in the Far East.  #OOTT www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/30/p...

The Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, which has been without power for more than a week, faces no imminent danger as long as backup generators are working, the UN nuclear watchdog said.

Investigative journalist Christo Grozev said the symptoms described by Durov are consistent with nerve-agent poisoning.

Russia is flaunting the resource wealth of its Arctic regions to the U.S. and China, hoping that they will invest in energy, rare earth or infrastructure projects.  Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples face poverty, the destruction of local ecosystems and erasure of their traditional ways of life.

Authorities in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar have unveiled what they call the country’s first school for children dedicated to assembling and operating drones.

Finland will not be intimidated by attempts to destabilize it and the rest of Europe with drones and other so-called “hybrid” attacks, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen said Tuesday.

#OpEd Fuel rationing hits ordinary Russians directly. Though state media blames bad weather, history shows that excuses can only go so far, writes Jason Corcoran. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/30/p...

The Czech Republic announced it will restrict the holders of Russian diplomatic and business passports from entering the country in what it said was an EU first, citing security concerns.

The Kremlin has joined other countries in expressing support for U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza.

The deputy governor of southern Russia’s Krasnodar region has been arrested on corruption suspicions hours after announcing he was stepping down to fight in Ukraine.

Russia will begin its fall 2025 military draft by issuing exclusively digital summonses in at least four regions, including Moscow, a senior military official said Tuesday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday that it had arrested a teenager in the republic of Mordovia on suspicion of organizing railway arson attacks with the help of minors.

Russia plans to roll out an app to measure how strongly university students embrace “traditional values,” the Vedomosti business newspaper reported Tuesday, citing a government procurement notice.

The Russian government has sold its stake in the iconic Soviet-era animation studio Soyuzmultfilm to an unnamed buyer after a 16-year delay, RBC reported Tuesday.

Ukraine said that a Russian overnight drone strike had killed a family of four in the northeastern Sumy region.

A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a French cyclist who was detained during a record-breaking cross-continental trip to be held in jail until at least November 3.

Authorities in annexed Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on Monday began limiting drivers to 30 liters of gasoline per purchase as fuel shortages continue to disrupt the Russian-occupied peninsula, despite Kremlin-installed officials assuring residents the crisis would ease within days.

#OpEd Russia’s billionaires once rivaled Microsoft & Bill Gates. Today, just six remain in the global Top 100, trapped at home and stripped of global influence, writes Vladislav Inozemtsev.

Kadyrov had earlier lashed out at the Investigative Committee chief and the interior minister over the case, warning that “the Almighty will punish them.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the conscription of 135,000 men by the end of 2025, the largest conscription drive in nine years.

Russia’s southern Rostov region, which accounts for roughly 10% of Russia’s national wheat output, has declared a federal-level agricultural emergency level after being hit by spring frosts and its worst summer drought in years. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/a...

The Kremlin has criticized the conduct of Moldova’s parliamentary election, claiming it was marred by complaints of violations and severe constraints on the voting rights of Moldovans living in Russia.

President Vladimir Putin has finalized Russia’s withdrawal from the European convention for the prevention of torture in a decree signed Monday.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said "the likelihood of this being about Russia wanting to send a message to countries supporting Ukraine is quite high" but stressed that "nobody really, really knows."

An 18-year-old former student stabbed and injured at least two people at a college in northwestern Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, law enforcement authorities said Monday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/e...

The former deputy governor of central Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, Oleg Chemezov, has been detained as part of a sweeping investigation into corruption surrounding local utility companies, the Interfax news agency reported Monday, citing his lawyer.

A fire sparked by a Ukrainian drone strike killed a child and his grandmother in a town outside Moscow overnight, regional authorities said Monday.

Up to 1,000 people lined up outside President Vladimir Putin’s official reception office near the Kremlin on Saturday to submit written complaints on social and environmental issues, in what was reported as one of the largest opposition-linked gatherings since early 2024.

A growing number of conscripts — young men who say they were forced into contracts and then sent to fight — are fleeing the front lines.

Moldova, a European Union candidate country, has long been divided over closer ties with Brussels or maintaining Soviet-era relations with Moscow. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Ukraine said Sunday that Russia pounded the country with "hundreds" of drones and missiles overnight, killing at least four people in the capital alone. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/28/r...

Though blackouts are common due to the plant's proximity to the front line, this is the longest outage so far. Experts warn it increases the risk of an accident.

Ukraine's Sports Minister condemned the decision. The final say on where Russians can compete lies with sports federations, many of which uphold a ban.

Incidents of mass deaths from cheap moonshine are not uncommon in Russia, which has been blighted by high levels of alcoholism for years, though they have rolled back from the records reached in the 1990s.

#OpEd It is increasingly obvious that Europe, Ukraine, and Russia will be the main losers of this war. Trump's America is willing to let that happen, warns Sergey Radchenko.

Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russia is now deploying smaller sabotage groups in a bid to pierce deep through the front.

A growing number of conscripts — young men who say they were forced into contracts and then sent to fight — are fleeing the front lines.

Iran and Russia signed a $25-billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic republic, Iranian state media reported, just hours ahead of the likely return of sweeping UN sanctions on Iran.

"Zelensky is clearly continuing his desperate efforts. That's why he's issuing threats left and right, which is quite irresponsible," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.