MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Wednesday host China’s foreign minister Wang Yi for talks in Saint Petersburg, the Kremlin said. The top Chinese diplomat is on a four-day visit to Russia, in the latest of a series of high-level contacts between Moscow and Beijing. “Today Putin will receiveContinue Reading
A Sydney sex worker filmed her client without consent and sent the video to his fiance, before unexpectedly turning up to an intersection and getting into his car while he was on the way to work. Brooke Ariel Grace Baker also sent the man 244 texts within five hours andContinue Reading
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has set off for Russia aboard a special train, a South Korean source said, as Pyongyang and Moscow on Monday confirmed a summit with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s deepening isolation over the war in Ukraine. Kim would visit Russia in the coming days atContinue Reading
One of Russia’s most respected independent journalists, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, will file a lawsuit challenging the Kremlin’s recent decision to brand him a “foreign agent“, Muratov’s newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, said on Monday. At Muratov’s own request, he will temporarily step down as Novaya Gazeta’s editor-in-chief while heContinue Reading
KYIV: Two people were hospitalized following a 3½-hour Russian drone barrage against port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Sunday, officials said. The attack comes a day before Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the resumption of food shipmentsContinue Reading
Russian-installed authorities began holding regional elections on Thursday in parts of Ukraine Russia claimed as its own last year, seeking to cement Moscow’s authority in what it calls its “new territories” despite the ongoing conflict.Russia does not control any of the four regions where the votes are being held –Continue Reading
WASHINGTON: The White House on Tuesday came close to declaring that the Kremlin was responsible for the death of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was believed to have been killed in a mysterious plane crash last week. “We all know that the Kremlin has a long history ofContinue Reading
The flight manifest for the plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday contained at least one other notable name in addition to Yevgeny Prigozhin – that of Dmitri Utkin, his longtime lieutenant in leading the Wagner private military company. Wagner emerged during President Putin’s first assault on Ukraine inContinue Reading
The Wagner Mercenary Group has sent a warning to the Russian establishment after the grisly demise of leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man behind the failed military coup in June. Before the flames had receded on the airplane wreck that claimed the lives of 10 people outside Moscow, masked members ofContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of mercenary group Wagner who led a short-lived revolt against Russia’s Vladimir Putin, is feared dead in a private jet crash in the Tver region north of Moscow.There was no confirmation that Prigozhin was on board the plane, although Russia’s aviation agency said heContinue Reading