Moscow chief who oversaw Kohberger investigation hired in Tri-Cities

KENNEWICK – An Eastern Washington police department’s newly hired chief oversaw the investigation into the grisly homicides of four University of Idaho students and the arrest of suspect Bryan Kohberger. James Fry, 56, took over the West Richland...

Petersburg dance instructor gives back to community one step at a time

Russian bulletproof hosting service Aeza Group sanctioned by US for ransomware work

A Russia-based company providing technical tools to ransomware gangs and digital drug dealers was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday. Aeza Group is a bulletproof hosting (BPH) services provider, the department said, that allows...

Russia-backed fund that bankrolled 'Aussie Cossack' sanctioned by Australia

A Russian-backed organisation that has bankrolled the legal defence of alleged spies and criminals has been sanctioned by the federal government just weeks after an investigation detailed its support for Australia's most prominent pro-Putin...

Russia Escalates Religious Persecution, Targets Pastors And Churches

WASHINGTON — Russia continued to persecute pastors and shutter churches within its borders and in territories it occupies in Ukraine in 2025, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in an updated report on Russia. Russia...

Russia-Azerbaijan tensions: What is known so far

A deadly Russian police raid on alleged Azerbaijani crime ring has prompted a major diplomatic flare up between the two nations The relationship between Russia and Azerbaijan has rapidly deteriorated in the aftermath of a Russian police raid on a...

Russian Ukraine advance accelerates for third consecutive month: AFP analysing ISW data

Russian Ukraine advance accelerates for third consecutive month: AFP analysing ISW data PARIS, July 1, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russia's military advance in June accelerated for a third consecutive month and made its largest advance since November,...

Russia imprisons senior defense official for 13 years over corruption

Timur Ivanov, Russia’s former deputy defense minister, was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony on Tuesday, marking the harshest sentence so far in a series of graft cases involving defense officials. Ivanov was...

Russian Sanctions

Edward Lucas Well, hello everyone. Welcome to our CEPA briefing on Russian sanctions, or rather sanctions on Russia. I’m Edward Lucas. I’m the Senior Advisor for CEPA based in London. That’s London, UK, not London, Canada, and I’m delighted to...

Petersburg’s Proposed Courts Complex      

This artist’s rendering shows the proposed combined courts complex set for downtown Petersburg.Courtesy City Of PetersburgThis site plan shows the proposed combined courts complex for downtown Petersburg.Courtesy City Of PetersburgThis site plan...

Russia's Sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 Raises Output to Record Levels

Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project raised production to record levels during the last days of June as the facility appears to have resumed loading cargoes. Natural gas output at the Novatek PJSC-led facility averaged 14 million cubic meters...

Moscow Calling – July 1

Russia to disconnect mobile communications for foreigners not registered in biometric system Starting July 1, mobile communications will be cut off for foreign citizens who have not registered with the Unified Biometric System (UBS), TASS cites...

Russia hands DPRK air defense systems, drone tech – Ukraine’s defense intel chief

The first batch of Russian Pantsir-S1 launchers, as well as technologies and equipment for the production of attack drones, have already been spotted in North Korea. This was reported by the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov,...

Azerbaijan jails Sputnik executives amid escalating tensions with Russia

Published on 01/07/2025 - 18:10 GMT+2 The executive director and editor-in-chief of Russia's state-run news agency Sputnik in Azerbaijan have been sentenced to four months in prison on Tuesday, following a Baku police raid of the Russian state...

Azerbaijan Alleges Torture Deaths, Russia Demands Journalists' Release, Armenia Slams "Interference"

Azerbaijani police raided the office of Russia's state-run Sputnik news agency, detaining three journalists, officials and the agency said on Monday (June 30), in the latest escalation of a diplomatic rift between Baku and Moscow.Russia's foreign...

Two deaths in Russian custody spark Moscow-Baku rift

BAKU: Postmortems on two Azerbaijani brothers who died in Russian police custody have shown that they were beaten to death, authorities in the South Caucasus country said on Tuesday as tensions rose sharply between Moscow and Baku. Azerbaijani...

Russia jails ex-deputy defence minister for 13 years in corruption trial

Russian former deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov was found guilty of corruption and condemned to 13 years in a penal colony on Tuesday, the harshest sentence yet in a series of graft cases against defence officials. Ivanov was arrested in April...

Taliban name envoy to Moscow

MOSCOW: A Taliban diplomat will on Tuesday assume the role as Afghanistan's ambassador to Russia, the group's first top envoy to Moscow since seizing power in 2021, Russian state media reported. Gul Hassan, a former consul in Pakistan, arrived in...

NATO deploys European F-35 fighters as Russian maneuvers intensify

Russian jets are buzzing around the Baltic skies again, and NATO isn’t sitting this one out. In a move signaling growing urgency along Europe’s eastern front, Norway has sent a squadron of its F-35A Lightning II fighter jets to Poland. The...

New four-lane section of US-95 south of Moscow to open later today

MOSCOW—Later today drivers will be able to take the new four-lane section of U.S. Highway 95 from Reisenauer Hill to Moscow as work wraps up on this nearly $90 million realignment. Construction began in 2022 to shift the curving, two-lane highway...